Took the 19 year old(Older than me…) tints off my CRX the other day.
And I thought tinting windows was hard.
Went at it with nothing but soapy water, goo gone, and a razor. Took a few hours but I think it makes the car look alot better now that I have no bubbles/purple tint.
before:
After:
Also de-badged the rear:
Definitely better, going to retint them?
Maybe next year.
I’m tearing the car apart because it desperately needs a paintjob+cancer removal this winter. I also plan on caging it and little other junk.
I’m focusing on getting fat slicks, cutting the fenders and rolling the fenders for now.
nice. def. looks better
tell me you used a heat gun and didn’t do this cold?
how much power is it making?
440 at the wheels at 93 and even more on race gas. Car weighs roughly 1900 pounds.
It’s running conservatively for what it could do, but the block’s not sleeved so I’m not trying to push it.
I really could care less if the cage is even necessary, but I don’t trust this car with carrying my body its like a tin can. I’d probably want it even if the car was stock.
tell me you used a heat gun and didn’t do this cold?
Yeah it did it cold it sucked. I didn’t think of using ammonia like Newman suggested or a heat gun till I was already like done. I kinda didn’t even really intend on taking the tints off the begin with I just started scraping away I originally was just de-badging the car. Hah.
The hard part wasn’t taking the actual tint off, it was the excess adhesive residue that was baked onto the glass. Hence the goo gone.
Heat gun usually will let ya scrape behind the glue and it will come off with the tint instead of staying on the window
Just went through this too. Heat gun helped but it took too long to heat that area up to a good temp to make it worth it. I found to just bake the car in the sun and do it mid afternoon really helped the most.
I hate tint.
Shops here in Texas charge $5 per window to un-tint them! lol
I got a deal on the BMW had all the old tints off and new 20% put on for $80 lol.
Looks good for a CRX
Haha thanks.
The engine bay is where it really looks good.
windex with amonia works well.
Not on that turbo, but if u got better cams, and a larger turbo, you can technically make 45-60 track passes making 650-700wheel on race gas on stock sleeves lol.
dependent on the tune
I hated taking the tint of my car too, i ended up having the tint guy finish it when he put the new stuff on
brake clean ftw
Those are such bullshit before and after pics…
You can’t take a before pic of your car on a overcast day in the rain and the after pic on a nice sunny day!
Looks much better though! :tup:
wat?
20-30
big ol OOPS lol
Looks much better with out the 80’s-90’s tint. Lol i got to untint my pickup cause i hate that purpleish tint.
I’ll be doing this soon too- not looking forward to it as I have no heat gun…