Adhesive removal

Car paint with adhesive on

Introduction

Use this guide to safely remove adhesive from your car's paintwork.

Steps

  1. Equipment
  2. Remove
  3. Clean

1. Equipment

  • Nitrile gloves
  • Bitumen & tar remover
  • Plastic scraper
  • Blue paper roll
  • Isopropyl alcohol

2. Remove

  1. Apply about 2ml of adhesive remover to the adhesive and let it sit for at least 3 minutes.

    Koch Chemie tea Car paint with adhesive on

  2. If the adhesive is quite viscous, use a plastic scraper to loosen most of it.

    Prying adhesive with plastic pry tool

  3. Next, wipe down the remainder of the adhesive with a paper towel.

    Wiping adhesive with paper towel

  4. Repeat steps 1 - 3 until all adhesive is removed.

3. Clean

  1. After most of the adhesive has been removed, apply a little isopropyl alcohol and wipe it down with some paper towel to remove any excess adhesive remover.

    Clean car paint

🏁 Conclusion

With Koch Chemie Tea, removing adhesive is really effective. However, if like me, you used Gorilla tape to secure a temporary tarp roof, it'll probably take 3 or 4 attempts of step 2 to fully remove all the adhesive.