[Vwdiesel] de-tint

[Will Taygan]

Local police gave me a fix-it ticket for too dark of tint (Yeah, the
1.6TD FrankenJetta had broken under-car neon lights when I got it
too!)  

Yep, goo gone and a lot of scrubbing.  

Heat gun and some pulling first, if you pull carefully you might not
need much goo gone.  Not too much heat, you want the adhesive to stick
to the tint, and not melt all over.  

Razor blade worked great but slowly on the sides.  

I left the rear and just cut out little spots of tint to repair the
defroster lines where they had overheated and melted the tint.  Filled
the gap with defroster repair paint.  Didn't look super great, but it
worked.

Will.

On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 10:00 -0500, mikitka wrote:
> Goo Gone or wd40 maybe. Not sure what would work well.  At least the Goo
> Gone isn't very airomatic.
> 
> Nick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
> Behalf Of Shalyn Shourds
> Sent: November 28, 2010 12:59 AM
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] de-tint
> 
> On the old '85 Jetta, visibility is a serious issue.  A long, long time 
> ago, it was tinted.  Double tinted.  Particularly on the rear window, 
> it's bubbled up and I can't see a thing through it.  I need to figure 
> out how to remove it, but I'd like to not destroy the defroster wires 
> which still mostly work.  Any thoughts?  I know scraping is out, but I'm 
> not sure about just pulling, or maybe solvents.  Any good bets on 
> solvents?  Not sure what would dissolve the adhesive but not my 
> interior.  (Either mine or the car's)
> 
> One of the many many maintenance issues that just don't come up on a 3 
> year old Toyota.  However, at least crashing it into a tree because of a 
> boredom-induced coma is something I have over the Camry.
> 
> 
> 
> -Shalyn
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