

| Subject: | Re: TINTED WINDOWS |
| From: | Bill |
| Date: | Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:36:57 -0700 |
Most window tints come off with ammonia, which is why you shouldn't clean them with Windex. Just use a good spray cleaner with ammonia. At 10:14 AM 8/23/99 -0700, Thomas D. Hanlon wrote: >First, see if the tint is water-based in adherence material.Some window tints >are. If it is, use water and clean the windows. > >If it is a "glue," as was mine, and I used "Lift Off," from Loctite. The prime >ingredient is "Xylol,:" readily availabe in paint stores at considerably less >cost than branded, spray-can " Lift-Off." > >"Removes bumper stickers, contact paper, pinstriping," and, among other items, >not specificalluy mentioned is widow tinting, though Lift-Off worked for me. > >Usual disclaimers. > >Tom Hanlon >Palm Springs, CA >84 Westfalia > > >David Marshall wrote: > >> To remove, peel it off then use WD-40 and newspaper to remove the stickey >> stuff. Then switch to glass cleaner and news paper to get the WD-40 off. >> >> At 11:21 20/08/1999 -0700, Debi Webi wrote: >> >Hello everybody... >> > >> >Does anyone know what kind of headache it would be to clear the TINT off my >> >windows and re-tint them so they can look new/nice again? I think I'd like >> >to go to a darker tint... >> > >> > Or should I leave them alone? Mtngal >> > >> > >> >> -- David Marshall - - Quesnel, BC, Canada -- >> -- 78 VW Rabbit, 80 VW Caddy, 84 VW Westie, 85 VW Cabriolet -- >> -- 87 Audi 5000 Quattro, 88 2.0L VW Syncro Double Cab -- >> -- David's Volkswagen Home Page http://www.volkswagen.org -- >> -- Fast Forward Autobahn Sport Tuning http://www.fastforward.ca -- >> -- david@volkswagen.org (pmail) or vanagon@volkswagen.org (list) -- > Bill (SE Arizona) (Bill@freeholder.com) HTTP://www.freeholder.com ---------------------------------------------------------- It ain't what you don't know that hurts you, it's what you do know that's wrong.
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