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Old 06-16-2007, 02:23 AM
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Default Re: Do it yourself tint

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Originally Posted by Ando140 View Post
I haven't tried it myself, but I've seen videos on the internet where people use a heat gun to shrink the tint to the window before they peel the plastic off the adheasive side. For example, with the back window, they lay it over the window (covered adheasive side out), rough cut it to size (leaving some excess), then wave the heat gun over it until it shrinks up to match the window. It looks pretty easy, but like I said... I've never tried it, and probably wouldn't attempt it myself unless I had plenty of extra tint & time. I've heard that you can use a hair dryer instead of a heat guy, but it'll take longer.
I had my malibu done at a shop cause the glass on that car was just too much for me. Even the guys at the tint shop had a hard time with it. I melted the tint with a heat gun twice and burned my fingers from the hot glass. A blow dryer will work but it does take longer to get the tint to shrink.
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