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How To: Remove Tint without using any special tools
************Disclaimer: This works for windows that can be taken out safely, unless your car is a hatchback, your front and rear windshield will need to be done at your own risk. ANY DAMAGES CANNOT BE HELD AGIANST CLUBCIVIC OR THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE! REMOVE AT OWN RISK!!*****************
Ok, now that the disclaimer for the retarded is done, lets get going.. Here's the tools ya need if your window is already out:
Water
Soap
Big Black Trash Bag
Hands
Fingers
Brain
HEAT
Heat is very important as this does most of the work.
What you need to do, is mix up the water and soap into a squirt bottle. Mix it up good, perferbably have a good ammount of soap mixed in. Clean your hands of ANY oil, grease or any chemicals (Use something like Lacquer thinner, or acetone, even just soap and water). This way when removing the tint, you don't get any smudge marks you have to clean up after.
Go ahead and take a couple of the trash bags out, and cut one in half, than cut that at the top so you have TWO LONG pieces of BLACK trashbag. Place one of those on a window, and cut the trash bag to the size of the window (Make it a little bigger for ease later on). Now, do the same for the other window(s).
Go ahead and take those off, now squirt the windows excessively with the soap and water mixture. Do not have ANY place left with dry window. Take your finger and go around the edges of where the tint is to make sure its good and soaked. Take the trash bags cut to your window, and place them over the wetted area. DO NOT ALLOW ANY AIR BUBBLES TO FORM.
Let this sit for awhile (Check every 15-20 minutes to see if the tint is able to peel off without leaving the purple crap behind). Mine took about 20 minutes in 90+ heat in the back of a truck with a black bed liner, so I suppose yours will take longer.
When its ready, go ahead and take the trash bags off, and start to peel the tint off, if it starts to leave the purple tint behind, lay the tint back down and squirt it, put the trash bag over and let it sit longer.
**Remember: We want to take this off in 1 easy step, not 2 or 3.**
When it's done, you should be left over with a nice clean, glue and tintless window. Remember, it make take awhile for this to fully work.
************Disclaimer: This works for windows that can be taken out safely, unless your car is a hatchback, your front and rear windshield will need to be done at your own risk. ANY DAMAGES CANNOT BE HELD AGIANST CLUBCIVIC OR THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE! REMOVE AT OWN RISK!!*****************
Ok, now that the disclaimer for the retarded is done, lets get going.. Here's the tools ya need if your window is already out:
Water
Soap
Big Black Trash Bag
Hands
Fingers
Brain
HEAT
Heat is very important as this does most of the work.
What you need to do, is mix up the water and soap into a squirt bottle. Mix it up good, perferbably have a good ammount of soap mixed in. Clean your hands of ANY oil, grease or any chemicals (Use something like Lacquer thinner, or acetone, even just soap and water). This way when removing the tint, you don't get any smudge marks you have to clean up after.
Go ahead and take a couple of the trash bags out, and cut one in half, than cut that at the top so you have TWO LONG pieces of BLACK trashbag. Place one of those on a window, and cut the trash bag to the size of the window (Make it a little bigger for ease later on). Now, do the same for the other window(s).
Go ahead and take those off, now squirt the windows excessively with the soap and water mixture. Do not have ANY place left with dry window. Take your finger and go around the edges of where the tint is to make sure its good and soaked. Take the trash bags cut to your window, and place them over the wetted area. DO NOT ALLOW ANY AIR BUBBLES TO FORM.
Let this sit for awhile (Check every 15-20 minutes to see if the tint is able to peel off without leaving the purple crap behind). Mine took about 20 minutes in 90+ heat in the back of a truck with a black bed liner, so I suppose yours will take longer.
When its ready, go ahead and take the trash bags off, and start to peel the tint off, if it starts to leave the purple tint behind, lay the tint back down and squirt it, put the trash bag over and let it sit longer.
**Remember: We want to take this off in 1 easy step, not 2 or 3.**
When it's done, you should be left over with a nice clean, glue and tintless window. Remember, it make take awhile for this to fully work.