How much would a window tinting shop generally charge to remove window tint from a 4 door car? Thanks!

 

I know that here in NYC, my shop charges $20 per window

 

60 to 80, it varies from shop to shop.

 

Do it yourself...Regular houshold ammonia is what the pro's use to get the glue off the window. You'll be done in a half hour.

PS...what a coincidence this is. I just had my windows tinted this weekend and I asked how to get the glue off. I surprised more people don't know. Sometimes I see cars driving around with that ******* glue on the windows.

 

do it yourself...the rear window might be tricky due to the heating elements for the defroster. You could probably get a shop to do that window for you.

 

This shop near me charges $150 to take off all of the tint. I didn't want to pay that so I did it myself. It's pretty easy, just time consuming.

All you need is a razor blade, windex, and paper towels. I did every window except the back one, I didn't want to fawk up the defroster lines while taking off the glue. So, they did that one for $40 after I took the tint sheet off.

 

removal- I never even heard of someone paying for removal. I just ripped mine off starting off by peeling at the corners where they started to peel anyway...and wiped the glue off after with glass cleaner. The glue is kinda stinky. The rear window- just be patient and gentle.

 

all u gotta do is peel the tint and scrape the glue....my friends at a tint shop say the best thinkg to used for glue is Castle Glass Cleaner w/Ammonia and a razor blade

 

dont even use a razor blade. I started a thread about this a few months ago, if someone could do a search we found a list of good ways to do it. One of them was a steamer, you just have to heat up the tint real good so that the glue is hot enough to pull away from the window and stay with the tint as you pull it off.

 

This is exactly what i did. Not difficult but annoying and time consuming.

 

What I do is leave the car in the sun for a while and then I peel them off. Then spray "Tough Stuff" and every thing comes out pretty easy.

 

Here it is: http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=363448

 

Yeah, do it yourself.
If you don't have any amonia, just go to Walmart and get some tint removal spray. It is basically the same stuff.
If the tint isn't too old, it will just pull right off of all the windows probably except the back one.

Here is what I did:
soak the windows with that spray.
get an edge started and then just pull down the tint.
It helps to be in the sun, as the heat makes the tint more plyable.
I found rather than being in the sun, it was much easier to just get a hair dryer and use that instead. The rear window is the only one that I really needed it for, but it was a life saver. If you can get a corner started with the glue stuck to the tint film, keep it hot with the hair dryer and just pull ever so slowly. It will come off in large strips that way, rather than breaking off in little shards.

Good luck.

It will probably be a longer ordeal than thirty minutes, but it is doable and worth saving like $100. You can get a decent re-tint job for like $150.

 

do it yourself...i did it in about an hour for 4 windows, look online for instructions, its pretty simple

 

I want to jump on the banwagon to get my post count up.....

DO IT YOURSELF!!!

 

great.
good for you. :attention

 

brudaddy, long time no see ! drop me a private message whats up in jackson miss

 

Hey ceasar, what happened to ceasarschariot.com ?

 

I just removed all the tint that was on the car. The place we were getting tint on woudln't pull the stuff off, so me and my dad did it ourselves. If you are lucky, you have good enough tint where it'll come off all in one peice. The back window is the trickiest because of the defroster bars. And on mine there was another thin layer after the thick so it would peel off in tiny strips instal of big sheets. It was a total PITA!. But here's what helped the most.

1. Moisten down the outside of the window with water (Do this in the sun, hotter the better)
2. Take a black garbage bag and layer it on top of the window (The water will keep it from moving). This traps in some heat from the sun.
3. Spray with some amonia, we used simple green.
4. Take a hair dryer and have someone blow some heat on the spots you are trying to tear off. Idealy work and pick at it so you can take it all off in the biggest possible sheets, but be very careful not to chip your defrosters with the razor, this was the hardest to work around and the tint would stick to them.

It takes a lot of patients. Eventually it started to all work off in bigger pieces. It was a relief to get done in the 90 dgree SD weather.

Good luck