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How to get rid of a decal on the rear window?
The most effective thing I've found for this is heat. Warm the sticker with a hair dryer. When it gets warmed to a certain point it will easily pull away without leaving residue. One word of ...
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How to get rid of a decal on the rear window?
On glass, heat would probably work well as mentioned, but I've worked at a car dealership for years, and always removed stickers and window paint with a simple straight razor blade and windex. The ...
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What stops a car window from falling down?
Every window has what's called a window regulator (here's a representative image):
The window itself attaches to the window track. This keeps it steady and level while moving up and down. As you can ...
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How to get rid of a decal on the rear window?
Acetone and isopropyl rubbing alcohol (90% and higher) are very effective at dissolving glue without affecting glass. It will affect any other plastic layer on the window so you should check for any ...
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Is it safe to drive with a crack in the windshield?
There are limits on the amount of cracking allowed on a windscreen before it fails safety inspection. Obviously, if your car isn't in a state/county that requires safety inspection, that's irrelevant.
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Why is air buffeting worse for most cars with the rear windows than the front windows?
In the simplest terms possible, the windshield acts as a spoiler or fairing, pushing the air out and up as your vehicle gains speed. The air naturally will push back to be along the side of the ...
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Rear window shatters after closing door
Rear and side windows are generally made from tempered glass which has been heat treated to set up residual stresses in the plate which put the interior under compression. This is what causes it to ...
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Is it a good idea to wax my windows?
tl dr: There are no major safety issues with using wax on your windows.
I have done it before without issue. It will do a couple of things for you. First, it will fill in minor imperfections in the ...
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Resolving rubber window seal damage
Without replacing it, there are few options.
You would need heat to smooth the material back down. Using a heat gun sparingly & carefully may work, but doing so improperly would likely make the ...
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How to best deal with ice buildup on inside front window of car?
First: how to fix.
You can take a scraper to the inside of the car window. The windows are definitely hardy enough to withstand having a scraper used on it. I do it all the time, and have never had ...
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How to get rid of a decal on the rear window?
Sticker remover or sticker adhesive sprays and manual scraping work a treat.
I'd use a plastic scraper or credit card to avoid damaging rear defroster lines.
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Dual Window Regulators
Some older cars have more than one controllable "window" on the door, so there needs to be more than one window crank. For example, here's a photo showing a car door with 2 window cranks. You can ...
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Is interior side of a car door designed to withstand rain?
There's not much to worry about. Car doors have seals to keep rain out, as long as the window is in contact with the seal along its entire length rain will not get inside the door, even if it is not ...
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Why are hatchbacks and SUVs' rear window vertical, relative to sedans' at around 45°?
For the angle of the rear window, vertical is basically for the load volume / carrying capacity, getting things with a high roof line opening.
Well, some sedans or sedans with a hatch-back did have ...
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How to get rid of a decal on the rear window?
Naphtha, available at any hardware store in the paint section, works beautifully to remove sticker residue. It is commonly used in furniture refinishing and luthiery for applications similar to that ...
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How to get rid of a decal on the rear window?
For anything that's just glass, I would follow @James' answer regarding a razor blade and any glass cleaner; it's definitely the best tactic.
For the inside of the rear window where you have the ...
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Dual Window Regulators
One is the side glass regulator (long handle), the other (short handle) is the wing vent regulator.
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How can I tell whether the windshield and side windows are UV protecting?
Use a UV ray light. Keep phosphorus material inside see if it lights up.
Light on the outside, glowing material inside, through the window you hope it does not light up.
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How to best deal with ice buildup on inside front window of car?
When you park at work, try to orient your car towards the south, which will help solar heating of the front of the car. With any luck your ice will sublimate, and when you run the heater in the car ...
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Best way to tint headlights/taillights
A friend of mine who owns a body shop told me the best way to do this is to add your tint color to clear coat spray. You can either add enough to get the darkness you like, or make the tint light in ...
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How to prevent the windows from sticking to the rubber seal?
The old trick I knew was rubbing The seal with a dry bar of soap. Doesn't last forever but no worries of ruined clothes from touching it
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What stops a car window from falling down?
The worm drive in the motors or manual crank mechanism has a defined "input" and "output" shaft; if you try to move the "output" side of the drive, nothing happens. Check out the examples at https://...
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How to best deal with ice buildup on inside front window of car?
You can prevent frost on the inside of the windshield in 2 ways.
use a blanket.
Make sure the air inside the car is not moist enough to condense into an ice layer. Frost inside the car is ...
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How can I tell whether the windshield and side windows are UV protecting?
According to this website there are two different types of UV radiation, UVA (longwave) and UVB (shortwave). Glass in and of itself absorbs the UVB light. The front windshield is treated to absorb UVA ...
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How to get rid of a decal on the rear window?
Peanut Butter
peel off sticker's plastic coating, if there is one
smear some peanut butter over the sticker, leave it until the sticker gets soft and comes up easily. 20min - 3hrs
wipe it off, the ...
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How to get rid of a decal on the rear window?
A straight razor blade, Goo Gone, and warm soapy water. Works like a charm.
Using the blade, gently scrape away the sticker material.
Use Goo Gone according to the directions to remove any residue.
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How to get rid of a decal on the rear window?
There is a citrus based cleaner called GooGone that also works great for removing many adhesives. And it smells nice when you're done. I use it frequently to remove price tag sticker residue after ...
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How to get rid of a decal on the rear window?
The glue from stickers of most kinds is easily removed with WD40, the same stuff used to stop squeaks and lubricate things.
It will mess up the finish on wooden furniture, so this is not a general ...
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How to get rid of a decal on the rear window?
Stickers are constructed of a huge variety of adhesive - some with a greater affinity for the glass, some with a tendency to stay on the underside of the sticker. The first step should always be to ...
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What are other ways to refer to a "Window Run Channel" ?
Other words I used to perform a search are "window guide channel" and "window weatherstrip channel." Each of these searches returned different results in wording, but nearly identical products. The ...
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