removing window tint (it has been sprayed on !!!)

It must be good stuff if celly thinner won't touch it. You could try T cut.

Try Acetone if you can get hold of any - if that doesnt shift it (watch out as U'll be as high as a kite on the stuff) nowt will !!! cant see anything that would molecularly bond with glass though :-)

How much is a new back window? Might be £150 or so, but possibly better than messing about with thinners etc.

Cheers Paul

Cellulose thinners wont always remove adhesive or paint, trying an alternative solvent like meths often works when cellulose doesn't.

Steve.

Two pack acrylics can be particularly tough once they are dry. No thinner will soften it. Is a broken rear window covered on insurance...?

Its not just the back window though, the rear door glass has it on too.

Stew Pid ( snipped-for-privacy@jabnet.uk.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

At least you can get that from a broken car easily enough, intact.

True,

Only if its been oven baked, which in this case is unlikely as it appears to be applied by amateurs.

Steve.

Didn't know that. How / Why?

I was wondering the same. Heat speeds up the curing process. However it will still set at room temperature albeit at a slow rate.

Any oven-baked paint will always be as hard as hell and impervious to solvent attack from nitro-cellulose thinners. If the paint used on the screen has been oven-baked (as it would from the factory) it will be extremely hard just like the body paintwork itself is.

Often repair work is not oven-baked and this leaves it susceptible to solvent attack. Oven-baked paint accelerates the curing process of any paint including synthetic that would normally take months or even years to become fully hard/cured.

It is possible to spray over a synthetic oil based paint in cellulose if the synthetic had been oven-baked. The old term was called stove enamelling.

If the screen has runs in the paintwork it is unlikely to have been done professionally and certainly not oven-baked.

Steve.

So in other words, it's worth my while finding one of those IR lamps or hiring one if I paint my car...

Some police outfits carry light measurement devices to measure the clarity (or not) of tinted glass. Sounds like yours might not pass the test. A fortuitous breakage might enable replacement for just the cost of the insurance excess. Mine doesn't charge btw. DaveK.

davek ( snipped-for-privacy@brentmere53.fsnet.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Of the windscreen and the front door windows. Anything aft of the B Pillar can be as blingtastically pimp-tinted as you wish. Think about vans...

I not too worried about the pimp-tinted look!!! It is the fact that it has been so badly done and look tatty. It makes the whole car look a bit tatty when it's not, like a freshly valeted car that is gleaming, but has dirty glass.

So why on earth did you import it then?

sponix

It certainly was not a professional job! Personally I have never seen anyone use a spray tint for windows.

Any hoo. After several failed attempts using Cellulose thinners, nail polish remover (with acteone), nail polisher remover (without acetone), meths, graffiti remover, carb cleaner (methanol), black friar paint and varnish remover. I then tried one of first ideas, from a. n. other, T-cut. It worked a treat doesn't take much rubbing either.

Becuase I paid far less money for it than I would in this country. I cut out all the middle men and imported it myself, accepting that I would have to sort out any problems with the car and so far only the windows and a bit of paint work on the bumpers.

T-cut worked probably because the paint medium is so very thin.

Steve.