tint sticky enough to rip defroster lines ?

[Guest pman6]

I read this on a car forum.

dude had his glass tinted. Back glass was not satisfactory, so he had it redone the next few days.

Tinter peeled off the tint, and the defroster lines came off with it.

is the adhesive really that powerful?

Have any of you pro tinters seen this happen before?

there was some contemplation that the tinter didn't use heat to remove the tint.

Even though the tint was applied a few days prior, do you always use heat to remove it anyway?

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[tintpro]

I read this on a car forum.

dude had his glass tinted. Back glass was not satisfactory, so he had it redone the next few days.

Tinter peeled off the tint, and the defroster lines came off with it.

is the adhesive really that powerful?

Have any of you pro tinters seen this happen before?

there was some contemplation that the tinter didn't use heat to remove the tint.

Even though the tint was applied a few days prior, do you always use heat to remove it anyway?

Whenever I remove film from a rear screen with a defroster, I ALWAYS either "bag it" or use my steamer no matter

how long the film has been installed.

Without those removal methods it is a crap shoot whether the defroster will stay in tact. The only defroster

I ever lost was on a mid-80's thunderbird and I did not use either technique.

[Texastintchick]

Depending on the film the adhesive can be very aggressive. It can even be so aggressive that it can remove the defroster lines (even after a couple of days). Using heat is not the key to removing film of off a back window, steam, simple green, etc... is however.

[VIP tint + glass]

was it a dodge?

[mates]

so many contributing factors to this. i always use 0000 steel wool on back glass as part of the cleaning process thats for windows that have not been tinted before as well and i have had R32 skyline demisters disintegrate and a ke70 corolla demisters do the same thing. i generally warn all customers when i ahve a re-tint that the demisters may not stay in tact as it is out of my control but i will do everything i can to reduce the chance of them being pulled off / stop working.

98% of cars i retint still maintain working demisters, yet some just seem to have broken down over time in the sun and others i have read on here were not adhered well to the glass in the production process.

[Guest thatsnappyguy]

I removed some suntek HP off a back glass of a charger and the lines lifted off the glass. That's the only time I ever seen that happen in 11years of tinting.

[Guest max power]

Yep, happened to me a few weeks ago....I had a day off to go fishing and my employee tinted a new toyota camry and cut around the brakelight cos he was too lazy to ' bulldoze ' it, custy came back complaining and I said I'd redo it no probs. Started peeling off film carefully and noticed one small piece of demister came off so I slowed right down, heated it and steamed it but no use- it just basically fell off.

I been tinting for near 20 years and the only other time I saw something similar was another brand new camry ( like not even delivered from the dealership) hit it with a scourer and the entire demister came off in big strips!