sun visor stickers

[nuedo]

I don't know how it is in states, but here in Canada we get our sun visiors coverd in bunch of warning stickers regarding air bags. I guess it's for people that do not read their manual. I really want to remove them with no luck. Anyone got them removed? If yes...how?
thanks

adrian

 

[Luxury]

The US version has lots of warnings as well. I was wondering the same thing about removing them......they are pretty ugly.

Is there any legal issues with removing them? Maybe for passengers, someone else driving my car, or when I sell it?

 

[Hoomiester]

Hey, it's your vehicle. You've been warned by the maker and if you want to remove them, do it.

If you figure out how to do it without creating a mess - please let me know.

 

[Guest]

There are no legal issues with removing them. The manufacturer is required to put them there, but you have no such liabilities when selling your car used.

Removing them may be a little bit of a tedious or messy process, but it's entirely possible. Just go to the store and buy something called "sticker shock" or you can use "Goo Gone". WD40 works pretty good too. Saturate the sticker completely and let it soak in for a few minutes (needs to get down to the bottom. Then use your fingernails or a straight blade to remove the sticker. Once the sticker itself is off, any residual glue can be remove by soaking it a little more and using fast orange or simple green and a scrub brush.

Just be careful with any of those cleaning chemicals accidently dripping onto your leather, cloth, or carpet. It won't hurt anything if it does, but you'll want to get it off with a towel and some water pretty quickly, or the spot may discolor. Plastics will be unaffected, however.

 

[Slick Willy]

Another option is to go to sign shop and get a different sticker made that is the same size and cover up the warnings.

They had some on VWVORTEX that looked like a warning sticker but said "passenger must remove shirt prior to takeoff"

You could get a Toyota logo, 4Runner logo, etc and just cover it up

 

[Luxury]

Another option is to go to sign shop and get a different sticker made that is the same size and cover up the warnings.

They had some on VWVORTEX that looked like a warning sticker but said "passenger must remove shirt prior to takeoff"

You could get a Toyota logo, 4Runner logo, etc and just cover it up

Good idea!

 

[SteveM]

Another option is to go to sign shop and get a different sticker made that is the same size and cover up the warnings.

They had some on VWVORTEX that looked like a warning sticker but said "passenger must remove shirt prior to takeoff"

You could get a Toyota logo, 4Runner logo, etc and just cover it up

I see in your sig you had a '71 Celica. Did they really make Celicas in 1971? I thought it was only Coronas and Corollas and Cressidas (I had a 1971 Corolla). It's probably just my faulty memory.

 

[Slick Willy]

I'm 65% sure it was the first year for the celica....but I'm 99.9% sure mine was a '71.
It would do 104 MPH......yeeee hawwww!

edit: the shop manual goes from 1971-1981, so I'mm 100% sure mine was a '71.

 

[bryancos]

FUN WARNINGS

I've seen some pretty amusing "warning" covers that either have the vehicle logo on them or are bogus warnings that cover the originals such as these: (I'm sure they'll make something for the lady drivers we have as well... but you get the idea) They make custom stickers, so maybe we can all do some type of group buy...

http://www.decalgirl.com/browse.cfm/2,92.htm

I once saw one that had the "circle/slash" over an image of a person using a motion sickness bag. It read something like:

WARNING!
This vehicle can subject occupants to extreme movements or high velocities. Proper precautions should be taken.

 

[Slick Willy]

yeah bryan - thats exactly what I was talking about....good stuf....I wonder if anyone would ever "get it" unless you pointed them out.