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    When I bought my car the tint that was in it was cheap "China" tint and had turned the usual nice shade of purple.

    I removed all my tint myself, its not hard to remove the tint...its hard to clean up the mess left behind.

    All I did on all of my windows was grab a corner and pull. Once it was off, I used a nice sharp razor blade and some Imperial Cleaner and that made clean up easy. I did not use the razor blade on the rear window, I did use a really fine scotch bright pad though, and with the cleaner...it was easy as pie.

    Making a tint shop "replace" or "fix" your rear window if they f-it up is slim to none. Your better off doing it yourself. Plus, it will make the price of the new tint cheaper if all the old tint is removed and the windows cleaned.

    I had my car tinted with commercial grade metallic film, that is 20% and meters at 17%, the entire rear glass was done in one solid piece of film, so I have no seams or gaps, I paid $100.00 with a life time guarantee.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GR8racingfool View Post
    When I bought my car the tint that was in it was cheap "China" tint and had turned the usual nice shade of purple.

    I removed all my tint myself, its not hard to remove the tint...its hard to clean up the mess left behind.

    All I did on all of my windows was grab a corner and pull. Once it was off, I used a nice sharp razor blade and some Imperial Cleaner and that made clean up easy. I did not use the razor blade on the rear window, I did use a really fine scotch bright pad though, and with the cleaner...it was easy as pie.

    Making a tint shop "replace" or "fix" your rear window if they f-it up is slim to none. Your better off doing it yourself. Plus, it will make the price of the new tint cheaper if all the old tint is removed and the windows cleaned.

    I had my car tinted with commercial grade metallic film, that is 20% and meters at 17%, the entire rear glass was done in one solid piece of film, so I have no seams or gaps, I paid $100.00 with a life time guarantee.

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    I worked at a shop that did tint (car stereo store/distributor), and if there was any problem we redid it, a good shop will stand behind their work, a bad shop tells you to get lost.
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    Quote Originally Posted by archemedes View Post
    a good shop will stand behind their work, a bad shop tells you to get lost.
    This has always been my experience also, but was he talking about actually messing up the back window, and not the tint? Either way it shouldn't be a problem with a good shop.
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    I know what you meant. It just amazes me how many of these "good shops" are still in business in Wichita here. You ask any car guy, and they persionally have dealt with about everyone, or know someone who has, and there is only that 2% of shops here that will stand behind their work, or stand behind any damage done to your car while its in their shop.

    My guy is one of those 2% business. I'm going to have him come out, and tint several of the new windows I plan to put in on my home.

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    the easy way to remove film from the rear window is to use a steamer. the hot steam reactivates the gule and to just comes right off. I used this method several times in the past.
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