How to Remove Window Tint

If you find that the tinting strip on the windows and the windshield is torn off, you might need to replace it. Tattered window tinting makes thing difficult for you sometimes. It hinders your vision and gives you much fuzzy view of the road. It looks awkward to have a tattered or worn window tinting on your car. They deteriorate the look and lessen the value of your car. Here are some steps given which help you to remove and replace the window tint on your car.

Items

Tinting material is composed of two layers. The thick transparent strip protects the colored strip from scratches and other wear and tear. You need following items to remove the old window tint:

• Clothes steamer
• A sturdy plastic edge (a baking spatula is good for this task)
• Terrycloth towel
• Window cleaner

Instructions

Many times the method used to remove tint is quite harmful as they involve razor blades, ammonia or garbage bags. To use those things are unsafe and extremely dangerous not for you only, but for weathrstrips and defroster lines as well. Here we are given simple steps

1. Pour water in the clothes steamer and switch it on to the high heat.
2. Starting from one side, keep the steamer on the corner of the windshield or window and wait for sometime until the adhesive material dissolves.
3. Take a sturdy plastic (a spatula) and scratch a part of the tinting strip or film to loose the grip.
4. Remove the film while steaming off the adhesive covering. Do it slowly and gradually and keep pulling the film off.
5. Keep removing the film in the same way by steaming the adhesive backing all the way to the other corner.
6. Take the window cleaner and spray it on the surface window or windshield to remove the remaining flakes or spots of adhesive matter. Clean it off with the terry cloth towel.

You can easily and cleanly remove the window tint by following the instructions. Now it is your choice to keep going without window tint or take your car to auto repair shop and have your windows tint again.