Tar on my Vinyl dash

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spyderco endura

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I got some window tar on my Vinyl dash in my car and I'm having a hard time removing it.

I would appreciate any help I can get 'cause it's making the rest of the rest of the car look like a piece of S**T.

Seriously, any help is greatly appreciated.
 
I think wd40 will work also,but it might cause the vinyl to dry out and crack down the road if you have to use much.I think you could also use lighter fluid,it works to remove scuff marks from vinyl flooring without causing any problems.
 
I don't know what "window tar" is, but tar tar, regular tar, whatever will come off if you scrub it with baby oil.
 
I use Goo be Gone, works on all the hard rubber type sticker left on new plastic containers and other items where the Seller has made an impossible to remove sticker for his item.
Any Grocery Store should have or China Mart.
James
 
Goof Off for me, but it's a petroleum solvent so be careful on any plastics.
 
Simple Green. Straight up, not diluted.

Took the tar right off my car exterior after 3 years of trying other products.
 
What the heck is window tar? Is it communicable? OMG, will it spread to the other cars in the garage?

But seriously, what is it? Are you talking about nicotine tar from cigarettes or pipes?

Unless it's something I've just never even imagined, I would use Stoner (ya, insert joke here) Window Cleaner. It's the best thing I've ever used, and I love it so much I keep a can in my car. Another secret to make windows spotless is crumpled up newspapers. You spray the Stoner on the windows (insert new joke here) and then wipe away in circles with the crumpled newspapers.

It may sound dumb, but I even keep an old newspaper in my car for those moments when I'm waiting to pick up my wife and have nothing better to do than clean my windows.
 
Window tar is what they used to use in cars to seal the window when they installed it. It never quite hardens and is a pain to get off. I'm still trying new things but thanks for the help so far.
 
*Slaps head in obvious recognition*

Ok, gotcha. Stoner's not gonna work on that job. (Insert yet another joke)
 
spyderco endura said:
Window tar is what they used to use in cars to seal the window when they installed it. It never quite hardens and is a pain to get off. I'm still trying new things but thanks for the help so far.
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Ha, I thought it might be something like that, even googled it! I doubt the baby oil I mentioned will help. That's some kind of epoxy, isn't it?
 
You may want to try a heat gun or hair dryer. Not hot enough to damage the vinyl, but enough to soften the tar and try wiping it off, or enough that a plastic putty knife may slide under it and lift it off and then clean the residue off with some plastic and vinyl safe adhesive remover.
 
A friend of mine had this happen when he had a new winshield installed. He said that the installer used the sticky side of duct tape to lift off most of the tar. Then he used some sort of cleaner on what the tape did not pick up.

Hope this helps,

Bruceter
 
I second trying Goo be Gone. I've used that to remove asphalt that sprayed up on the exterior of a white car from a recently paved road. And it worked awesomely, without scratching or messing up the paint job at all.
 
Thanks guys. I cleaned most of it off with some "soft scrub with bleach" but I may try some goo be gone on the tough spot.
 
Actually, when I said Goo be Gone, I think I meant Goof Off.

They both have silly names though, so they're both winners to me.

This randomly occured to me today, so I figured I'd follow up on it.
 
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