Hi all,

I was curious if I can remove the airbag warning stickers on the bottom of the sun visors. I started then I thought I should check in case they were not meant to come off (and leave stuff behind).

Thanks.

There is a good chance you will damage the visor.

I have been down this road before. There is no good news down this road.

You will be able to get the label off without tearing the fabric. You will never get out the indentation and/or the glue marks from the label.

Believe it or not, it is actually illegal for a dealer to sell a car without these labels on the sun visor but who cares after you buy it.

The end of my road had two new sun visors. Interestingly however, the label was a separate part number and the new sun visors from the parts depot did not have the labels affixed to them. This was a while back on a SL so I don't know about today's S.

I know for some BMWs the part number is different for non marked visors (also known as ROW visors).

+1 I remove it from my s550, same day, I order two air bag stickers from the dealer

Messed up my wife's GL450. Leave it alone

Years ago, on one of the Porsche forum, they actually sold "Sun Visor Warning Cover Labels" sized perfectly and available in the most common interior colors that were used to cover these warning labels. It made them less noticeable, but not invisible.

On my '08 S550 4matic the airbag stickers fell off after a few years. An imprint was left from the sticky glue that never came out.

I was in the process of removing those stupid stickers when I thankfully figured out I should stop and leave them alone. It's a shame they designed the stickers to not come off. They can still meet the regulatory nonsense by affixing the stickers but they don't have to go out of their way to make them absolutely impossible to remove. Those stickers are garish and look horrible.

I bet for a couple of hundred dollars you can get a car upholstery place to match the fabric and cover those stupid stickers for good. They can cover anything in the car and the visors should be easy.

Check out the cost of new visors. Years ago the new ones did not have the stickers and the stickers were a separate part number.

Thanks to all. I will leave them alone.

Tom

Go figure... Today the passenger side airbag sticker fell off the visor. First of all, I hate these stickers to begin with, but now that it fell off, the area is darker and the glue from it the visor left a perfect square. I guess I have to put this ugly thing back on? I can't believe there isn't a SAFE way to clean the visor fabric so we can just leave it off..

Call me weird, but personally, I like the look with the warning label on the visors. :S

You posted same question on W221 forum. Which car did it fall from and do you park it outside?

I bought a W211 07 E63 about a month and a half ago. I'm new to forum and it has been worth its weight in gold in sorting through the various minor issues that came with the car.


The car has a black interior with alcantara visors. The bright yellow airbag warning stickers had to go. After reading this thread I removed the visors (easy) and placed them flat on a table. I used a hair dryer to heat the stickers and loosen the glue. I then saturated a clean cloth with spray goof off and put it on top of the sticker and let it stand for about 10 minutes. Then using a blunt scapel and forceps to lift the edge of the sticker I pulled upwards very slowly to remove -- continuously applying more heat from the hair dryer.


The sticker consists of a durable clear plastic cover and the yellow film underneath (with the text) which is bonded to the alcantara. Mostly if you are careful the yellow film will come off with the clear plastic. If they start to separate, stop and start on another corner. This removed all of the clear plastic outer layer and about 90% of the yellow under layer.


Using a clean rag saturated with goof off I began removing the remaining glue and sticker. Go slowly and experiment with removal. you can push the glue along and remove with a rag. Once most of the remaining sticker and glue was off, I sprayed Goof Off directly onto the visor saturating the alcantara. I left if sit briefly and scraped/squeegeed the goof off out and the remaining glue off using the edge of small metal six inch in ruler I had. I then blotted out the remaining goof off with a clean rag and let the visors air dry (in the garage) overnight.


Visor number 2 came out perfect. Visor number 1 had some minor balling of the alcanta where I was a little to aggressive with the scraping while figuring out how to best do it, not bad just a tiny bit. I used a new schick 5 bladed shaving razor to very lightly shave the minor ***** and strings off. Viola, I placed the visors side by side in direst sunlight and theylook perfect. You would never know they ever has stickers.


I love now that I am looking out of my black on black car my peripheral vision no longer constantly has those ridiculous fire bell yellow alerts distracting may brain. Disclaimer: I am the only person who drives my car and I have studied the manual and I know how the air bags work. I am not recommending you remove your stickers.


NOW FOR THE BIG MISTAKE: I used Goof Off on a hard plastic part. (see next post)

BIG MISTAKE: Using Goof off to remove the visor stickers worked so well I pulled the airbag label off the black plastic fuse box cover on the end of the dash and sprayed on Goof Off to remove the glue residue. Goof Off WILL damage plastics, a fact I momentarily forgot. It left a white looking bleached out spot on the fuse box cover that no plastic cleaner, polish, etc. will cure. A few drops also dripped down onto the black door sill plastics and it left permanent bleached out spots there. I tried a couple of fixes, but in the end I removed the panel and repainted with black enamel spray paint. It matched the other black panels about as good as can be expected without buying a new panel. I was happy with the final result.


Conclusion & Warning: If you are going to use Goof Off to remove your visor air bag stickers - take the visors out of the car. I can only imagine what would have happened if some Goof Off had dripped down onto my dash.

I have since pulled the other one off and it still looks 10 times better than with the stickers on. Take them off.

Yep, you're weird.

I have also been down this road and got the horrible glue color where you could see where the sticker was. I did this day one with a new car. I wonder if you did a euro delivery if you could ask them to not put it on the car...

yes, lol, +1 for weird


I have considered finding a similar color cloth or paint or something to cover them....