Iamfink2, since you aren't interested in replacing your dashboard, you could carefully pull on the tape and remove it. Both ends are cut and will pull free without affecting anything else. There are no vertical components involved. Otherwise, it will periodically reappear. It also may start to become visible, partially covering your VIN number, as you look from outside through the windshield toward the driver's side dashboard! That's how I first became aware of mine.