Today's project: remove terrible tint off my back hatch window. I purchased a used Jiffy J-4 steamer off of Craigslist to remove the tint off my 98 Cali.
The tint was so bad it was hard to see out of at night. It turns out there was a tint layer on top of a tint layer. Two layers of adhesive had gotten wavy and totally distorting clarity. you can see the waves of adhesive and distortion in this shot.
I tried to use a good handheld garment steamer and really made no real progress after 15 minutes. With this larger unit. It took all of 15 minutes to pull off the 2 layers/4 sections of tint. Finished it up with some spray on Goof-off to get the residual glue off.
Less than 30 minutes start to finish once the steamer got hot. Not messy and easy to pull the tint sheets off as one continuous piece. Totally worth the price of the used steamer. I'll do the side windows later, after the game.
1998 & 1997 318ti Sport Schwartz II
1995 318ti Active Alpineweib III