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so
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welcome to another episode of mighty car
mods proudly supported by just car
insurance now today is all about
removing tint from your car you might
have had a bad job done or you might
just want to go for that clean look or
you may have been defected because your
tent is too dark so we are going to try
a bunch of different methods and show
you the best way of removing tint from
your vehicle
today we're working on marty's mum's
subaru outback which has a full version
3 sti transplant running 18 psi of boost
it's got a full exhaust front mount jdm
suspension and a leather interior
conversion courtesy of a japanese legacy
gtb
this tint's been on since the previous
owner and it's a pretty cheap job which
is faded and scratched so it's time to
remove it
so these are the tools you're going to
need you're going to need a heat gun to
heat everything up you're going to need
some blades to scrape the glue and tint
off the side windows a scouring pad you
can use on the cargo windows because
they're made of different glass and they
scratch easier you use this instead of
the blades we've got some heavy duty
degreaser which is sodium hydroxide
that's for using on the rear window you
can't use blades on that because you
ruin your demister and finally to clean
up some dishwashing liquid and water in
a spray pack
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start off by heating the glass with a
heat gun you want it so it's just too
hot to touch
now the tint on your windows is
particularly bad you've got to be
careful when you take this edge off
because it may come off
in two layers one is the dye layer and
one's just a layer of plastic over the
top and if that happens oh that's hot if
that happens um you're going to be here
for a lot longer so try and get off with
one go and we're going to use a razor
blade to make that happen
around 40 degrees is the best
temperature to make sure you get rid of
as much glue as you can
put a razor blade under the edge and
pull away a corner then move the heat
gun onto the inside of the window as you
pull the tint down be careful not to get
too close
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so when you're removing the tint from
the windows leave around the last
centimeter attached the reason that you
do that is when you clean the window all
of this glue and all of this gunk up
here is going to run down and be caught
in the tint so that when you remove it
you can get rid of it otherwise if you
take this off now when you clean this
all of that gunk is going to run down
and go inside your door and catch along
there it stinks and it looks like snot
and it's not mad
spray the window with detergent and
leave it to soak in you can see why it's
best to leave the tint attached as it
also protects the interior trim so not
everybody has a heat gun at home so
we're also going to try this now on
another window with a hair dryer that we
got from marty's mum
we're also going to check and measure
the temperature of this so we can see if
it gets up to the 40 degrees which is
what the glass needs to be to be able to
remove the tint easily so let's give it
a crack
this may take a while
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so with the hairdryer i can only get
this glass up to around 30 degrees now
the heat gun got it up to 40 degrees
which is what you need the glass to be
to easily remove the tint but we're
going to give it a crack anyway and see
if the hair dryer can remove the tint
again peel off the corner with a blade
until you've got a piece big enough to
grab and then move the heat source onto
the inside of the window as you peel it
off
so it is possible with the hairdryer
it's leaving a little bit more glue than
the heat gun was just because it's not
as hot but it is working so that means
it is possible if you don't have a heat
gun
it actually needs a lot more force to
remove it than i expected i thought it
would come up a lot easier than this
that said it's not a hard job it's just
um
it's just going to take a little bit of
time to do it right and you want to do
it right so that your next tent that's
going on
looks as good as it can because it's all
about the prep
spray the window with detergent and now
we're going to see what happens if we
remove the tint without a heat source in
11 degrees ambient temperature
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my
so removing it the way that marty just
did was pretty stupid uh because now the
whole window
is covered in glue so it's really sticky
so that's now going to be a lot of work
for marty to uh to remove all of that a
quick tip
is man you're the glue man not me what
does that mean i'm the glue man it means
you get to remove it all dude i get to
do the fun bit and now you do the glue
i'm not the glue man ugly sounds like
some kind of drug i don't care gloomy
they got me the glue man anyway a quick
tip is that my hat is sticking to it
look at this that's not the tip quick
tip is in summer uh your whole car is
going to be hot and the glass is going
to be hot so in you know australia 35
degree day
you may not even need the heat gun
because as we showed over there with the
hair dryer that 32 33 degrees is gonna
work for you so uh if you're gonna do
your tents um and remove them yourself
then summer's gonna be better today it's
a really cold day in australia it's only
about you know 10 degrees uh so that's
why marty's wrecked this one and covered
it with glue and now he's going to fix
it matt blue man's gonna fix it now
right blue man no
i'm the leaf man martin
check out how much glue was left on the
glass compared with the front window
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now the tints made up of two layers and
you can see here that it started to
delaminate um they've come apart you
want to make sure that you're getting
the layer that's closest to the glass so
that they both come with it otherwise
you're going to be here twice as long
doing twice as much work and nobody
likes that
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remove the rear window tint spray with
detergent and then heat up your lunch
cut into the tint on the rear window to
get an edge which will help you remove
it
look at that mate looks like australia
australia
just leave it like that mate
oh watch out mate you cutting into the
great australian bite there goes
adelaide
getting a friend to heat from the
outside makes this heaps easier then
move the heat source inside
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we're gonna do the back window this
one's a little bit different we have to
be extra careful of not damaging these
to mr bars
so we're gonna go a lot slower we're
gonna use plenty of heat and we're gonna
try and take as much glue off with the
tint as we can
again cut into the tint to get an edge
and then peel it all off
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spray the rear window with the heavy
duty degreaser and leave it to soak in
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so now it's time to strip the leftover
glue off the windows this is going to
show off just how effective your tint
extraction method was um you need to use
a new blade for every single window
we're going to cover the window in the
solution the cleaning solution and then
we're going to scrape the glue off like
that
use a rag to clean the glue off the
blade as you go
when you get down to the bottom remove
the tint and be careful with your window
rubbers
the degreaser will soften up the glue on
the rear window making it heaps easier
to remove
so this is why you really really really
want to use a heat gun or a hair dryer
on the other windows we're only scraping
off the tiniest bit of glue this we're
scraping off the entire way and it's not
fun so heat up the window first
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finish off all the other windows and
then clean up the rear window
all right so the last thing we've got to
do to get all the tint off the car is
finish off this back window now along
with the mister lines there is some tint
glue that's still stuck to it we're
going to use some steel and just rub it
really lightly that takes the glue off
because if you tint over that glue it
looks really ratty
with all the glue gone this outback is
officially tint free
a massive thanks to show us your tints
from the mighty carmodz forum for
helping us with this episode
okay so there it is it's going to take
about one hour of your time and this is
something that is truly easy enough for
you to do at home with very very minimal
equipment on the driveway at home and
that's proper mighty mods now if you're
going to go and get your car
professionally tinted you can save
yourself some serious money by taking
off the old tint first you can save up
to at least 100 bucks and that's awesome
and you're gonna need to get rid of your
old tint for our next episode because
this one we showed you how to take your
tents off next episode we're going to
show you martin how to put it on how to
tint your car which is going to be
awesome now we're giving you guys a
special discount on the mighty car mods
magazine this is available at
shop.mightycarmods.com this is issue 3
it's got japan stuff drifting stuff diy
stuff interviews music stuff photography
tips so much awesomeness it works on all
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anyway which is mad hello martin hello
mate see ya bye
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fighting cardboard
what are you doing dude he's reading a
book man
not helping
he's a professional man
so you
not helping
all right