I know I'm probably posting in the wrong area. Don't shoot me. Any tricks with removing 10 year old window tint yourself. Thanks

 

A sharp razor blade and a lot of windex.

 

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but be careful that you don't scratch the hell out of the window, spraying windex on it then using the razor as a scraper works well, don't try using it dry or it will scratch the glass.

 

i removed some tint from my isuzu rodeo, and i borrowed some kinda of weird glue remover stuff that worked great. I forget what it was called, but i just used that and a standard razor and it came off really easy. Good luck

 

Goo Be Gone and WD-40 works good with a razor as well but a bitch to clean off later.

 

gasket remover spray should work but i don't know how well trim pieces like to be touched by it, if you have the glass off the car then it should work well.

 

paint stripper, the real deal
razor blades will work on side glass but if your doing the rear window
don't even try the blade or you'll have no defrost - put the paint stripper on
(with the winodow out) let it sit for 5-10 min then use a plastic putty spreader scrape away the remains

 

and hope you don't get any on the sides of the frame...

 

thanks alot. Yeah, forgot about the rear window. chit

 

yeah i did that....totally F-ed up my rear defrost.......but i was younger and dumber at the time haha...so yes, be careful of that

 

peel tint off any way you can, being 10 years old you can usually grab a corner and run away with it, try a heat gun as well.

then use some amonia based window cleaner like Windex, spray the window really good, take some 00 steel wool soaked in soapy water to remove the glue.

protect adjoining areas

side windows you can just use the razor blade and window cleaner- the window cleaner makes for a nice lubricant

 

The best and cheapest way. Just double check the blades sharpness

 

Peel the tint off and then put some gasoline on a rag and wipe off the glue, i had 13 year old tint on my fc and the gas was the quickest was to get the glue off

Hope that helps

 

I peeled mine off by spraying ammonia concentrate on the window tint, I then wallpapered a trashbag over the tint to keep the ammonia solution from evaporating, and then shined a 500 watt halogen light from the other side of the glass for a couple of hours to get it nice and warm. The tint peeled off pretty easily after that and this method worked well on the rear hatch glass without damaging the rear defroster. You'll find ammonia concentrate on the cleaning aisle on any grocery store and you need to do this in a well ventilated area unless you like burning your nose hairs out.
After peeling off the tint the excess glue came off with a rag soaked in ammonia.

 

Go down to Kragen/Checker and buy the three-dollar-a-bottle tint remover. Glue came off with no trouble at all.

 

Ive been in the tint business for 10 years and i can tell you no matter what you do it sucks what we do is just use soap and water and a razor blade for the sides but on the back glass go and buy you a 35.00 heat gun and start heating the film up on the outside glass depending how bad it is you may have to really heat it up.
Once you do get the film off buy some purple power or industrial strength glass cleaner that is in a pressurized can and spray the window down and grab some steel wool and start wearing your arm out. If the film is really failed sometimes you have no choice but to scrap it with a blade and say goodbye to your defroster.
Hope that helps. If anyone has a better way i would love to hear it as well and maybe it would make my day to day job easier.

 

Steel Wool?

 

I'm pretty sure that someone posted this link in the last month or so, but here it is again:

http://www.tintdude.com/remove.html

 

Yes steel wool. It doesnt ruin the defroster wires and has enough abrasion to cut threw the glue and collect itself in the fibers.

 

I guess I thought it would tear **** up. I have to use it at work too and in fact, I cut myself pretty bad with some last Saturday.

Good to know anyway. Thanks.

 

you need to use fine steel wool, if your cutting yourself up its too course

you want 00 fine, get it in a hardware store/home depot.

 

Well, this thread is timely. Since my car is garaged at the moment, I figured I'd remove the crappy tint (don't know how long its been there) and have it re-tinted in spring.