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Just reading the am reception thread and made me remember, had the same problem on a 2006 Kia Amanti, Had to remove and replace the rear window, buuutt.. when I pulled the film off all the defrosters came off with it :drool .

This only happened once, so whern I have to do a re & re on a rear window I tell the custy I'm not responsible for damage do to the drefrosters coming off with the film :drool

:drool Has anyone else run into this mess?

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check the vin#, I'll bet that car came from Canada ............................ :drool:lol2:lol2:drool

J/K, :drool

I've never had defrosters come off with the film, :lol2 can you elaborate more, do you mean they completly came off the glass, or you could see in the film where it was over the defrosters, and there was lines on the film once removed :drool

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Some Llumar ATR CH took about 50% of each line off of 240 SX that I stripped. Made a nice black and orange pattern.

What's weird is I bagged it, then steamed it off, and it left behind no glue, yet took the lines with it.

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check the vin#, I'll bet that car came from Canada ............................ :drool:lol2:lol2:lol2

J/K, :drool

I've never had defrosters come off with the film, :lol2 can you elaborate more, do you mean they completly came off the glass, or you could see in the film where it was over the defrosters, and there was lines on the film once removed :drool

Completely off, so much that I noticed it on the film I removed. Usually you can see the outline or trace of the defrosters but this time IT WAS the defrosters :lol2 It was that notcable. :drool

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I've had defrosters come off in spots here and there from film removal. the older the car the more likely it'll happen. a new car losing defrosters means it must be a kia. :beer

it happened to me a month or so ago on an 80s corvette. I warned the owner prior to removing the film though. it lost atleast 75% of the defrosters from the removal.

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Had an 80's Corvette this summer, it came from Florida nice work but the film was distorted right at eye level, it had a few brokens lines, not too bad but a 2000 Accord lost all it's lines, broken but not peeled off, more like cracks and chips in the lines :beer

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