Useful Tips to Remove Car Window Tint

Car tints provide a reasonable level of protection against harmful UV rays. As with all things, car tints don’t last forever. Usually, they can last up to 10 years but extreme weather can take a toll. If you don’t remove it timely and properly, you will end up with untidy-looking windows covered in bubbly, discoloured or sticky tint. In this guide, we share various methods of removing tints from car windows effectively. 

How to Remove Old Tint off Car Windows

When looking for ways to remove tint from car windows online, search engines will overwhelm you with several answers. However, we have jotted down the most popular car tint removal techniques below to make the process easier and practical for our readers. 

1. Use a hairdryer or heat gun

Using a heat gun or a normal hairdryer is very effective when it comes to car tint removal. Just pick a corner of the tint and go through the following process:

• Keep the hairdryer or heat gun around two inches away from the car window and turn it on at high speed. This will eventually melt the glue at the back of the tint. Once the glue softens, insert your fingernail or a sharp object at the edge of the tint to peel it off.
• Use a clean towel to clear out the glue stuck on the car window.
• Finally, after the tint is removed from the window, wash the glass with a soapy car cleaning solution.

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2. Use soap and newspaper

This is another useful method to remove old tint from car windows. If you are thinking about how to remove tints from car windows with this method, it is pretty simple. To start off, make a soapy mixture in warm water. Apply the mixture on all of your car windows and cover them with newspaper such that the paper also soaks in the soapy mix. 

Whenever the paper dries out from the outside, spray it with more soap water. After a few hours, use a non-metallic scraper to scrape off the newspaper, the tint will also come off in the process. If some of it is left, repeat the process again but make sure you do this during broad daylight because the heat from the sun will make it easier. 

3. Use a razor blade or knife

This method is effective but requires caution. You need to be very careful in handling the blade.

• Cut the edge of the tint with a razor blade. 
• Spray the car windows with soapy water in abundance.  
• The edges of your tint are going to be totally off by now, thanks to the first cut you made.
• Pull off the edge with your hands, peeling down the tint easily.  
• If some of the tint sheet is still stuck on the car window, repeat the process. 

4. Steam cleaning

One of the most common ways to peel off car tints from windows is with the help of a steam cleaner. Just make sure the cleaner is warm. Here is how to remove tints from car windows with steam – spray steam on the window while gently pulling down the car window tint. If you do this process slowly, even the glue that is generally stuck on the windows after removing the tint will also come off! 

Using a fabric steamer for removing tints is also not a bad idea.

Now that you are clear about removing tints from car windows, you can easily get rid of the old ones and replace them with new tints. You can get car tints from various auto shops. Here is how to easily tint car windows at home.

Please keep in mind whatever technique you use, you will find a little bit of glue stuck to your car window. But not to worry, you can easily get the glue off with nail polish removers, glue removers or your regular soap water car cleaning mixture. Besides, if you have stickers on your car and wish to remove them, here are some effective ways for removing stickers from car windows.

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