When I bought my Max it had that old purple-type tint on it. I want to get it off and put on something that looks black.

Anyone know of a good way to take it off? I am mostly concerned about the rear window because I do not want to damage the window heating wires. I heard something about a liquid solution from Wal Mart that takes it off, if you tried that please let me know about your experience with it.

I haven't consulted any tint people yet... thought I'd ask the real experts first

 

you can try a hair dryer maybe?

 

i used windex and a sos pad. I did the back as well, just becareful

 

might want to have a professional do the back window

 

Ya, I would stick with professionals. If they screw up, it's their fault.

 

Stick with the pro's on the back window,--I have heard of people using that real good oven cleaner...But for the rear window,my wife has a 95 Z24 with some messed up tint on the back. So I called the guy that does all my tinting (has own tint shop) and he told me something about wetting the window and putting some type of plactic on it and let it sit out in the sun for so many hours before removing it...So I'm gonna let him do it all.....

 

Yeah I've heard of this. You just cut a garbage bag to the same size as the rear window, spray tint with ammonia, stick bag to it. Let it sit in the sun for a while and peel.

 

From someone who's done this to their Z w/ purple tint... Just pay the shop the extra $100 to do it...
I used a razor to get the edge up, peeled (unfortunately, w/out hair dryer) and sprayed window w/ castrol superclean as I peeled. The tint came off but the glue did not, I used very fine steel wool and the castrol until the glue came off, then continued to wipe the window off until it was dry. Afterwards used a glass cleaner.
Yes yes.. I know what you're gonna say, steel wool??? YES STEEL WOOL! It will NOT scratch the window unless you have a heavy grade. People say, "but you can't see the scratches but they're there...."
You know when you can look in the sun at the right angle and see if there are any scratches in your windows.. I did this and there was NOTHING. I even did it in my back window but scraped and used steel wool in horizonal fashion ONLY. Even if you DID break the defroster, nissan has a special marker where you draw a line where there is a broken connection and it restores the defroster.
I spent about 4-6 hrs doing my windows until they were done.. Yes it felt good cause i saved $100 but it was a biatch.
OH, another note about the steel wool... WHen I had my 96 max it had TERRIBLE hardwater spots on the back window, so bad that at night, cars in back were unclear and everything was hazy. I used tilex and steel wool, spent about 1 hr on it, cleaned the glass afterards and presto, window is SPOTLESS.
Good luck.
(ps.) if you don't believe me about the steel wool, try it on your windshield in the corner where the wipers don't reach, you'll see that I'm right.

 

You could also use a normal pencil to repair the defroster lines, graphite conducts nicely.

 

I suppose that could work as well. The pen that nissan has is liquid based which obviously has to conduct as well when it dries.

 

True, but graphite can and will wear off with time.