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Originally posted by whitnallgps:
Anybody have good suggestions for removing old state park stickers from your windshield…besides picking and scraping?Yesterday I went to remove the 2005 stickers from BOTH of our vehicles. The first came off clean with a wide razor scraper … but the 2nd fought me every inch of the way and required softening with harsh stuff (I used “Goof Off”). I find it strange the two pieces of glass, with the same sticker, sitting at the same temperature, in the same garage … could react so differently. Only thing I can think of is that maybe the first vehicle’s glass was not real clean or something, allowing it to come off easy. Which makes me wish I had not cleaned them both with Windex before putting the new stickers on!
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Originally posted by rpaske:
preemptive strike:
http://windshieldrelief.com/I also use a preemtive metod which doesn’t cost a thing. Before placing the sticker in the window, apply and remove it from your pants leg a few times. This puts just enough lint into the adhisive that it will usually come back off with minimal reistance come next year.
My method consists of not worrying about it until I have to buy a sticker for another year. At that point, I pull forward some 25 feet from Ranger station and pry desperately at the previous year’s sticker with my bare fingers. Cussing, with half of the sticker yet attached to the window, the gummy hunks of the little I managed to remove of last year’s sticker all over my fingers, yet needing the new sticker so we can go enjoy an afternoon at the park- I finally just apply the new sticker above the row of previous half-removed stickers. I’m about 3/4 of the way up the windshield at this point.
You folks have me inspired however.
I do’t apply any stickers to my windows, I went to my local hardware store and purchased a small piece of Lexan (clear plastic 1/8 inch thick and about 3 x 6 inches
I apply all my state stickers to the this plastic and keep it in my glove box and just put it in the window when I need it.
The state of michigan park system didnt like the idea too much, but I just told them that stickers on your winshield block your view witch would technically make them illegal. after that they didnt have a problem with it
I assumed I was the only one even buying a state park sticker solely based on the difficulty of changing it out each January! When it comes in the mail, I wait for a trip where the car will be nice and warm at the end. I take the blade from a Stanley knife and two paper towels, one soaked in Windex in a baggie. At the end of the journey, when the car is warm and I don’t have to sit there and freeze, I take the blade out and push it against the edge of the sticker using the dry paper towel for padding until I get the bulk of it off. It defiantly is best when the window is cold and the sticker stays stiff. With 12 years of experience, I can get one off in about 5 or 6 pieces. Then I clean and dry the window real good and put the new one on. If you cut off most of the clear corners, there’s less to remove next year. I will look at his preventative thingy though. That seems reasonable to me and I have honestly no intention of cheating the state out of the $25 when I use the parks several times a week.
While on the trails at Pike Lake State Park, I got a ticket for not having a sticker on my windshield. I had it stuck on a clear 3×3 piece of plexi-glass which was laying on my dash.
When I went to the park office to complain, the ranger was quick to show me the regulation that specifies that the sticker must be attached to the winshield. I put my proverbial tail between my legs, shook my head, and left.
Next time I go to Pike Lake I’m going to duct tape the sticker right in the middle of my line of sight with about a square yard of tape- just to see what they have say about that.
I still don’t see why they couldn’t just issue a color coded yearly sticker that could go on a corner of the front license plate..like they do for our licence renewal with stickers that go on the rear plate.
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Originally posted by Cathunter:
Next time I go to Pike Lake I’m going to duct tape the sticker right in the middle of my line of sight with about a square yard of tape- just to see what they have say about that.And then you’ll have to start a forum topic on how to remove duct tape adhesive from your window.
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Originally posted by Cathunter:
Next time I go to Pike Lake I’m going to duct tape the sticker right in the middle of my line of sight with about a square yard of tape- just to see what they have say about that.Save yourself the grief, Cathunter. The regulation they showed you also specifies that the sticker must be attached to the windshield “by its own adhesive”. Using the duct tape would just be a quick route to ticket #2. The reason those “windshield savers” work is that they are undetectable from the outside. Obviously they still violate the regulation, but the rangers can’t tell when checking for stickers.
I still think that this “solution” from a couple weeks back is the best … no where do the rules say anything against adding pants lint as being illegal …
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Originally posted by conductorBrian:
I also use a preemtive metod which doesn’t cost a thing. Before placing the sticker in the window, apply and remove it from your pants leg a few times. This puts just enough lint into the adhisive that it will usually come back off with minimal reistance come next year.1. It can’t be a license sticker because it needs to be seen from the booth the attendant is in. Also when we check for stickers in parking lots it would be difficult to check each front license plate since most people pull into a spot front first.
2. The post that stated the sticker must be stuck to the window by its own adhesive is correct. The sticker is consisdered invalid if it is not. We can tell when we shine our Inova MicroLight on it.My suggestion at annual meetings has been to offer a longer term sticker such as a 5 year, so at least the removal burden wasn’t yearly. My ideaa was shot down on the grounds that rates increase more frequently than five years.
My next idea was to issue a permit similar to the computer printed fishing license. It would have the vehicle license plate of the car it is to be used for printed right on it. It could sit on the dashboard and we could check to see if the vehicle plate matched the one printed on it. If not we issue a ticket.
That idea got “gonged” on the grounds that prevents people from buying the yearly sticker as a gift for others. I hadn’t realized how many people gave stickers as Christmas gifts.So until someone comes up with a better way I’ll be doing the annual scrape and scrub ordeal just like everyone else.
I find that a good chisel and hammer to guarantee the removale of park stickers. Of course you will need to replace your windshield. But that is such a small price to pay for a clean windshield.
I wound up using acetone (also found in fingernail polish remover) along with a sharp scalpel blade…helps to work in a hospital lab.
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