Goo Gone very oily on window, what will remove it?

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I was trying to remove a lot of 8 inch vinyl letters from a very large pane of glass…my first experience with that. It was a nightmare and I will charge a rediculous rate for that from now on. Like $5 a letter. Unless there is an easier way I don’t know a out. I started by just trying to scrape them…didn’t work. Then I sprayed goo gone on them and then tried to scrape…didnt work that great. Luckily it was at a body shop so I read that I should use a heat gun and scraper and they had a heat gun on hand. That worked but not great, I was afraid to hold the heat gun on the letters too long because I didn’t want to Crack the glass. I don’t actually know if that would happen but that was not the pane of glass to test it on.

Anyways after I got the main vinyl lettering off the window it left a crap ton of sticky residue on the window. So I sprayed all of that down with goo gone and spread it everywhere and then scraped it until it looked like it was all off. Then I went to wet the window and squeegee it for the final clean but the water just cascaded off of the oily residue left by the goo gone. I tried to remove it but I couldn’t cut the greasiness. Any suggestions? I’m going back in the morning.

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Try dawn , with a clean applicator .

I usually just us goof off for glue removal , I just use a separate bucket of water with soap and a separate applicator to remove it . Don’t use the same water to clean more windows , you’ll leave this white haze on all the windows

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+1 for goof off. Most good scrapers don’t leave that much glue behind. I’ve also found magic erasers take tape backing and glue residue off.

Then a clean bucket of water (hot if possible, most places have a mop sink for your rectangular bucket)land good ol dawn to cut the goof off.

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Dawn. The grease fighter of choice.

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Vinyl shouldn’t be that hard to remove. But I did have one job where they had a strip of it and it had been on there for 20 years. It was one of my first jobs and took me about an hour to do one window with a razor. I went out and got a heat gun and just pulled them off in strips. The glue is easy to pick off with a razor.

Just add extra dawn in your solution to get rid of goo gone.

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sounds like pretty old vinyl, ‘goo gone’ just isn’t going to get through it.
next time try smaller blades (1" is my choice, and go though a bunch of em), with a lot of soap.

since the letters are gone and the oil is left; barkeepers and a white pad should cut that.

you’ll probably have ‘shadow letters’ left after all is said and done…

run down to the auto store and grab some “nufinish” car wax ( yes, car wax )

apply to whole window lightly and buff off with dry towel and THEN clean normally.
water will bead and it will be real sticky with a squeegee but, it will clean with no shadow lettering.

good luck,
goof off beats goo gone every time imho…

~Jimmy~

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I always get goo gone and goof off confused - but the one in the little tin can straight up rocks. But it is pretty nasty.

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both are nasty…
I prefer barkeepers for most applications.

sometimes oil based overspray on tempered glass requires, well…
nasty… charge for it…

~Jimmy~