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Have you removed the warning stickers on the visors?

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Old 03-07-08, 12:14 AM
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Question Have you removed the warning stickers on the visors?

I'd love to remove those obnoxious warning stickers from the inside and outside of both visors, BUT I am worried that, if I start, I'll just be left with a mess with them partially still on.

Has anyone else had luck removing the stickers, and, if so, how did you do it?

(Maybe it's easy, but, once I start yanking, I'm probably committed to complete the removal, hence my question in advance.) Thanks!
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I tried once on an earlier vehicle ('94 SVT Cobra Mustang). Ruined the visor. My understanding is, they are made to be -unremovable- for obvious legal reasons. Good luck though, if you try!
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I always thought that was ironed on. Sounds like a mess to take off.
Old 03-07-08, 05:21 AM
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I tried it b 4 on a older car too, it makes a mess. I learned to live with it.
Old 03-07-08, 05:59 AM
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I have not yet tries it yet, but I am not really bother by that.....
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Here's an idea.. How about having a good auto upholstery shop recover them??? The material appears to be the same material some cars use as headliners. Might cost you a couple of coins but better than trying to remove the stickers and making a mess then you'll have to buy new visors. If a upholstery shop can do it, you have a custom design made to your specs.
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Here's an idea: how about leaving the stickers alone, so that when an ignorant person buys the car from you a few years later, they don't put their small kid in the front seat and kill him?
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Here's an idea: how about leaving the stickers alone, so that when an ignorant person buys the car from you a few years later, they don't put their small kid in the front seat and kill him?
We live our lives with so many warnings that the net results is that nobody pays any attention to any of them. If we just had a few warnings and only about things we did not expect, people would pay attention.

Here in California stores are required to have signs if there something in the store that someone has determined might cause cancer. This means that all stores have the sign, since something they sell is probably on the could-cause cancer list, so no pays attention to any of the signs.

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put a funny warning sticker over them (sold on ebay) and when needed you can still take them off.
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Thumbs down Decided to leave them on for 2 reasons

Originally Posted by rwdds
I tried once on an earlier vehicle ('94 SVT Cobra Mustang). Ruined the visor. My understanding is, they are made to be -unremovable- for obvious legal reasons. Good luck though, if you try!
I decided to leave them since it sounds too messy

Besides I could end up with a lawyer who wants to make some money. I might take the sign off. The guy I sell the car to gets in an accident ... the lawyers says blame the last owner, it's all his fault, we can get his money ...
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Originally Posted by Modeler
Here's an idea: how about leaving the stickers alone, so that when an ignorant person buys the car from you a few years later, they don't put their small kid in the front seat and kill him?
Just incase britney spears buys your car.
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Originally Posted by steverhode
I'd love to remove those obnoxious warning stickers from the inside and outside of both visors, BUT I am worried that, if I start, I'll just be left with a mess with them partially still on.

Has anyone else had luck removing the stickers, and, if so, how did you do it?

(Maybe it's easy, but, once I start yanking, I'm probably committed to complete the removal, hence my question in advance.) Thanks!
I removed mine years ago. There is a light glue residue that I was able to remove with "Goo-be-gone" (I think that was it). After peeling the label off CCAAAARREEEEFFFUUULLLYYYY I then put some glue remover solvent on a white rag and very lightly removed the residue. After a few years there's an extremely hard to see darkening to the area but it looks MUCH better than those warning labels.
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I think I prefer the labels as to a darken glue mark area on my visor
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