First off let me start off that I feel stupid
I bought some stickers and patches from Kevin from Lifestyle Overland a few weeks ago.
Some of you have probably seen his two patches I put on my headliner in this thread a few days ago.
Kevin's online store
I also got some cool stickers from him, and I put the bigger one on my rear window last week.
It had a blue backing you pull off, then apply the sticker.
What you see above surrounding the white design and lettering of the sticker I left on my rig since last weekend.
Something did not look quite right, and I got to thinking that maybe this is a diecut sticker.
I shot Kevin a PM at the Overland Bound forum where I first saw his stuff, and sure enough it is a diecut, and he said just peel off the transparent part ever so carefully lest I pull up the lettering too.
I have a fear of diecut stickers as long ago I had a custom YotaTech one from a local guy who put one on the front of my ARB bumper when I had my '91 4Runner.
When I traded in the 4Runner for my FJ Cruiser I had one left, and I attempted to put it on my rear window and failed
The lettering came up and got all botched up so I called the guy and drove there and bought a few more off of him and had him install it for me.
By the way, that one has been on the rig now for 10+ years and is still going strong.
After yakking with Kevin I went out to my rig and slooooooooooooooowly pulled off the clear surround and the diecut sticker came out unscathed.
Success, it turned out great.
So great I decided to throw the other big one on my ARB bumper up front.
I purposely had it wrap about the wing a little instead of being straight on the full front.
However when pulling off the clear surround one of the letters started to come up.
Dang, I am cursed, but I pushed the clear surround down again over the letter and then started to peel it off, and it was a successful install.
I now no longer fear these, well, except maybe all single lettering like my YotaTech one.
Only time will tell if I ever try to install an all lettering one.
Those seem tougher since each letter is not connected to anything else.