# Getting paste off my car window **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 29, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paste-off-my-car-window/620370 "2012-04-29T23:04:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paste-off-my-car-window/620370/1 "2012-04-29T23:04:37Z")
Don’t want to go into a whole pitting, so suffice to say some officious idiot decided that he didn’t like my car being parked where I parked it (perfectly legal, a few blocks from a subway) so he pasted this garish orange sticker on the passenger’s side window “VIOLATION YOU ARE PARKED ILLEGALLY YOUR LICENCE PLATE HAS BEEN RECORDED” BLABLABLA I scraped all the orange part off with a razor blade and some elbow grease, but I’ve still got some sticky residue on the window. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paste-off-my-car-window/620370/2 "2012-04-29T23:07:07Z")
WD-40, or there are products such as Goo Gone, that even come with little scrapers, that will remove adhesive. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paste-off-my-car-window/620370/3 "2012-04-29T23:08:57Z")
There’s this stuff called [Goof Off](http://www.amazon.com/Goof-Off-FG650-Miracle-4-5-Ounce/dp/B001AHAN2M/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1335740855&sr=8-2) that will work. The link is to [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) but I’ve seen it for sale in Home Depot. ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paste-off-my-car-window/620370/4 "2012-04-29T23:19:26Z")
You might also try an oily dish washing liquid. ---
**Author:** ![Vicullum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/6de8d8/32.png) [@Vicullum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicullum)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paste-off-my-car-window/620370/5 "2012-04-29T23:20:40Z")
WD-40 works wonders on sticky residue. I had some on my wood flooring and it took it off with only minor elbow grease. If that fails, you can try acetone. ---
**Author:** ![ClevelandProud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@ClevelandProud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ClevelandProud)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paste-off-my-car-window/620370/6 "2012-04-30T00:01:08Z")
Baby oil attacks bumpersticker glue. ---
**Author:** ![OldnCrinkly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@OldnCrinkly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldnCrinkly)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paste-off-my-car-window/620370/7 "2012-04-30T02:15:59Z")
Soak some paper towels in ammonia and set it on the glue awhile. It should dissolve nicely. Ammonia is amazing. Plus it won’t leave streaks on your window which I would expect from other things. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paste-off-my-car-window/620370/8 "2012-04-30T06:23:24Z")
Just soak an absorbent rag in detergent solution and slap it on the sticky patch and leave it there for an hour (if you live somewhere hot, do this at night so it doesn’t just dry out). The gum should hydrate and loosen, then it wil clean off easily. ---
**Author:** ![sniffo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@sniffo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sniffo)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paste-off-my-car-window/620370/9 "2012-04-30T11:20:47Z")
+1 baby oil. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-paste-off-my-car-window/620370/10 "2012-04-30T14:00:38Z")
Be careful with Goof Off - it’s the most aggressive of the solvents that have been mentioned so far, and it can harm paint. (One of its intended uses is removing dried paint.) My go-to product for getting rid of sticky stuff is Goo Gone, but WD40 and baby oil are also pretty good. They’re all relatively slow-acting, so be ready to invest a little time and rubbing. The alternate is something like lacquer thinner that would take the sticky stuff off almost instantly, but it will also almost instantly strip paint to bare metal if you spill any.