[snowboarder]

I am having a VERY difficult time taking off the stupid dealer sticker of the back of my tailgate...I dont think there could possibly be harder substance in the world to remove...they should sell those stickers to NASA...any suggestions to get it off without ruining the paint. Debadging was cake....this is another story.

 

[Trail Gator]

I want my dealer to pay Me when they put that crap on my car.

 

[6shooter]

i hate when dealers do that. we don't do anything like that, just plate frames. it seems like such a joke to me when i see people driving around and their's a big badge with a dealership's logo on it on the tailgate or something. some people just must not care. that would be the first thing to go. i would ask them to remove it at the dealership before i even took delivery.

 

[snowboarder]

The very first day I bought it I worked at it for like 3 hours with my fingernails....but only got like 10% off....now it looks even worse. So everytime I walk by my tailgate I vomit and pick at it some more...running out of patience for the thing.

By the way I hate "Superstition Springs Toyota!"

Not really, just the sticker.

 

[amishchicken]

I use a heat gun to remove them, just do slow passes with it till it heats up enough to come off, then some bug / tar remover to get rid of any glue residue.

 

[Will 17]

That's what I'm worried about. My truck is supposed to be here tomorrow, and the dealership I ordered from has those stupid stickers. Hopefully since it's an order, it won't have them.

 

[Jeff Lange]

Ask them not to put it on.

I remember when my dad was buying his old Supra, he told the dealer that if they put a sticker on the car there was no deal and he'd get the car elsewhere... it had no sticker.

Jeff

 

[JUNGLEMAN]

Use a blow drier if you don`t have a heat gun to heat it up and loosen the adhesive then some goo be gone or lighter fluid to remove the adhesive left behind.
The TRD stickers on the bed sides were the same way major PITA!

 

[wildbuellrider]

Do what I did--load a dirtbike in the bed, bend the tailgate. Take it to a different dealer for the TSB--NO STICKER!

~T

 

[tonythemarine]

goo gone?

 

[toku58]

Can't you tell them to take it off?

I would be pissed if my dealer did that to my truck. I'd make them pay for advertisement space on my tailgate.

 

[Chalkie]

Can't you tell them to take it off?

I would be pissed if my dealer did that to my truck. I'd make them pay for advertisement space on my tailgate.

That's pretty much what I did. Told them to take $2000 off the price of the truck for advertising fees, or take the sticker off. They chose to take the sticker off. :lol:

 

[gary79]

a heat gun or hair dryer and a plastic razor blade will have that off in seconds.

 

[SilverstreakSR5]

WD-40 works, too.

 

[Obxfishn]

I had them remove it before I signed the paperwork. I told them unless they were going to compensate me for advertising their name, to remove it off my truck. Salesman said no problem!

 

[the.phantom]

many years ago those dealer badges use to be chrome and they drilled two holes to mount them.
so if you took them off you had two holes to fix. well in calif a lawsuit was filed about the "free advertising" so now they just use license plate frames.

in was in colorado in the mid 70's and watched them detail my truck and the second the kid went for the drill i cautioned him about not doing it, he insisted and told him he would have to explain the loss of sale, so didn't get the badge !!

all you have to do is make sure the salesman knows that you will not accept it with a badge and you won't get one, don't wait till you drive off !

 

[HoosierTacoma08]

Hopefully since it's an order, it won't have them.

Don't hold your breath, I ordered my truck too, picked it up the day it arrived and they put one on. Took it off right in front of the sales guy and the owner, they asked me what I was doing and I told them they left a piece of S#%& on my truck and I was giving it back. :wink2: (I told them not to put one on) Came off real easy since it was fresh.

Jared

 

[Ice|Burn]

Don't hold your breath, I ordered my truck too, picked it up the day it arrived and they put one on. Took it off right in front of the sales guy and the owner, they asked me what I was doing and I told them they left a piece of S#%& on my truck and I was giving it back. :wink2: (I told them not to put one on) Came off real easy since it was fresh.

Jared

I would have made them take it off. That way i they effed it up they would be liable and not you.

 

[HoosierTacoma08]

I would have made them take it off. That way i they effed it up they would be liable and not you.

I thought about that, but having the owner right in front of me I couldn't pass it up.:naughty:

 

[WilsonTheDog]

What I did was I went out and found a drunk illegal alien and had him rearend my truck. New tailgate = no more dealer stickers.