OK - My customer JUST left my shop with his NX 300 ...TOTALLY satisfied, AND after I scratched the SH*T out of his driver's window!!! So, I never got the tech bulletin / warning from Eastman, and I always get those - they send them out on any bad situation that would arise from installing film on new cars, as they become aware. So like I said, the first pass of the razor on the driver's side dug right into that IR coating, and it wasn't pretty. So I read about the posibilty of removing all the coating by dry scraping, and it actually works - you can, with new SS blades (I used 6"triumph as well as regular 1" SS blades), remove the coating. I then went over the whole glass with #000 steel wool, squeegeed and installed my piece. Voila - no bubbles, no troubles!!! FYI: The only glass that has the IR is the driver's and passenger's front, but not the small triangle one on the fronts. You can actually see the IR; it starts about 1/2 inch from the top of the glass (roll it down half way and look from an angle - you can clearly see the edge of the coating. I also heard that other Lexus models have this, but am not sure yet; will post after clarifying that. The image here is when it first happened, after my first few passes - I should have taken an after pic, but got too excited that I was going to solve the problem and not have to stroke a check for hundreds to have the glass replaced!
If you take your time with a Dry Blade you can scrape up all that powder coating off .it takes a while but I did it
Be aware of this car you cannot take a razor blade to the glass it has a IR coating on it that you will scratch. I don't know how to remove the film even if you install it because you cannot take a razor blade to to it at all the Glass cost $257 to replace.
2019 Lexus nx300
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