DIY How To Remove Tint Safely With Rear a Window Defogger

[RinconRolla98]

This is how you remove your tint safely with out damaging your rear window defogger . First you need is a black garbage bag & Windex with Amonia , squeegee plus some cheese cloth and you need a nice hot sunny day . With humidity is even better .



I removed the speaker cover or you can place a towel because this is a wet and messy process . You cut open the black garbage bag so that it can cover the rear window . Then you make sure your window is facing the sun , Then you spray alot of windex on the window so that it stays wet then you apply the garbage bag as if you were tinting your windows using the squeegee , make sure the bag sticks 100% if you have to re-apply more windex . Once you have the bag looking like the photo then you can let it sit for 1hr . If you want you can do this procedure to the other windows in your car .



After the hour has passed you remove the black plastic bag , Then you find a corner on the tint and peel , The tint will pull away easily and might leave some glue on it but that you can easily remove it once you remove the tint you can spray more windex and with your cheese cloth and your elbow wipe away until all of the glue is removed . The windex with amonia will eat the glue . If your tint had bubbles before you applied the plastic bag you might have to repeat this until you get that glue soft .





This will be the end results . With out using a razor blade and you saved your rear window defogger . Do not get fustrated if your having problems with the tint with bubbles in it . It will come out . You just have to repeat the steps . You might go through one bottle of windex . You might have to do it over days .

[mr1114]

Is it really that easy? I remember long ago I removed old tint from a car's back window and it was a major PITA.

[RinconRolla98]

Originally Posted by mr1114

Is it really that easy? I remember long ago I removed old tint from a car's back window and it was a major PITA.

You have to do it on a HOT day not a sunny day , I mean like in the 90 degree plus day

[Bingo]

Cool tip. Thanks.

[mr1114]

Will have to try it out this summer when the temps are well above 90 degrees

[RinconRolla98]

Originally Posted by mr1114

Will have to try it out this summer when the temps are well above 90 degrees

I live in Florida and we have humidity and hot so it worked for me real good , Good luck with it bro !!!!!!!

[tycorolla]

Just joined here.
Tons of great stuff here. Have a 99 with almost 190k. lots of shitty miles delivering pizza, but too good a deal and probably still some life left.
Wishing it were tinted, have looked at some DIY product like GILA. Haven,t gotten a quote, but has anyone done a pretty good job with their own labour?
Are pre-cut films available and easy enough to work with?
tia everyone

[AlaricD]

Originally Posted by RinconRolla98

This is how you remove your tint safely with out damaging your rear window defogger (snip)

Excellent photoessay!

A question-- on a cooler day could it be done in a garage with a couple of heat lamps aimed at the window you're working on instead of waiting for a hot day?

[mr1114]

Originally Posted by tycorolla

Just joined here.
Tons of great stuff here. Have a 99 with almost 190k. lots of shitty miles delivering pizza, but too good a deal and probably still some life left.
Wishing it were tinted, have looked at some DIY product like GILA. Haven,t gotten a quote, but has anyone done a pretty good job with their own labour?
Are pre-cut films available and easy enough to work with?
tia everyone

I strongly recommend leaving it to a professional. Tinting is one of those things I no longer attempt to do myself.

[AlaricD]

I second mr114's suggestion. Window tinting is fairly painstaking. I've tinted my house windows, and that was already bad enough and mistakes can be difficult to work out. The professional tint shops may charge a bit for what they do, but they do it right and warrant their work.

[1.8litrebeater]

A clothing steamer also does the same thing much faster if you dont want to wait for a sunny day.

[scoutsout]

Originally Posted by tycorolla

Just joined here.
Tons of great stuff here. Have a 99 with almost 190k. lots of shitty miles delivering pizza, but too good a deal and probably still some life left.
Wishing it were tinted, have looked at some DIY product like GILA. Haven,t gotten a quote, but has anyone done a pretty good job with their own labour?
Are pre-cut films available and easy enough to work with?
tia everyone

to TN! Yes there are those precut tinting sets. You can find em on ebay. But as mr1114 said, leave it for the pros. I agree, even tho its precut, its still a PITA. It will still bubble, its jus a PITA all around. You can get a good tint job for around $115. Well here where I'm at. Good luck.