heat gun and what everyone has said before

a power washer close up will take them off... could even take the paint if youre not careful

 

well since my dad is a profession graphics installer ill let you in on my secrete, let is sit in the hot sun all day or aplay heat to it and peal them off. to get the adhiecive off use delimenine and if you cant get your hands on that use denatured alcohol its not as strong but it will work

 

From an old Jeep Grand Wagoneer owner who had to strip two sides of old faded woodgrain off of his truck, I'll give a few ideas. I've tried them all and have had both good and bad success with each of them.

First off, it depends partly on the following:

1. How old the adhesive is and how the paint it was applied over was cured.
2. What the chemical makeup of the paint was
3. How the paint was prepped before the adhesive/sticker/etc was applied
4. Probably another thousand reasons I can't think of.........

You can use:

Professional heat gun to heat the paint really hot. Then let it cool for a few minutes and apply a gentle consistant pull on the vinyl if it's a sticker or vinyl siding.

You can also get a little device that looks like a soldering gun that has a razor blade attached to the end that heats up pretty hot. Use it to gently get under the sticker/etc and slide VERY carefully under the stuff to be removed. Move it slowly to avoid nicking your paint. It heats the adhesive in a very thin line that usually melts the adhesive in a small section at a time. Vinyl should peel off evenly.

Some members of the Full Size Jeep group I belong to have used a fairly mild grit sand paper to gently scratch the vinyl itself without scratching the paint. They then use an adhesive solvent to carefully keep the vinyl wet without dripping onto the paint. The solvent gets through the thin scratches in the vinyl and desolves the adhesive under the applique you are trying to remove. The vinyl should then peel off with gentle pressure. Immediately clean any excess solvent from your paint.

Care should be taken with the solvent due to the fact that it may have adverse effects on your paint if applied wrong.

Many of these solvents are also highly flammable so again, use care. Better yet, don't use ANY heat source around solvents.

Hope this helps.

I've used all of these techniques with varied results on my Wagoneer. It CAN be done.

 

Ahhhh i feel your pain! been working on my 2004 enclosed trailer i got for the last week trying to remove decals and all the adhesive. For the decals i used a halogen lamp, it would heat up the whole letter at once. probably only 25 percent of the adhesive came off with the decal the other 75 stayed on the trailer. That was the best way i found to remove the decals. I couldnt use the eraser cause of the chance of taking the paint off.

Now for the adhesive. I tried goo gone, wd40, desolve it, spray sunscreen, gas, diesel, denatured alcohol, oderless mineral spirits and some other stuff. the sunscreen worked pretty damn good but the best thing i found that didnt remove and of the thin baked on paint was the oderless mineral spirits. spray it on and use a plastic scraper to scrape it off. Gonna be scraping today

best of luck

 

go to the local auto paint store and get an eraser for auto graphics and pin stripping they are aprox $13.00 ea and a low speed die grinder works wonders and wont burn the paint then buff

 

3m eraser wheel saves allot of time.

 

pin stripe eraser X4! de-identified a 45ton heavy wrecker with tons of vinyl lettering with only 2 erasers and a electric drill at my former crooked employer. paint was perfect underneith and all of the adheisive came off with the lettering. left a ton of bits of eraser/vinyl on the floor tho but who cares saved a ton of effort!

 

I used the eraser wheel several have mentoned. But where the decals I removed were cracked and dried. alot of the adhesive was left behind. So I took fine grit scouring pads. (brillo pads) removed the rest. Then buffed it out. doing so blended the paint back so you couldn't see where the decals were.

 

If you don't want to buy the eraser wheel take it to a decal shop they will have one that's what I did and they didn't charge me a dime just told me to bring donuts by some time