thecarpenter wrote:
Think it will work on tinted windshields
The oven cleaner removes the coating.
When the windshields are made they coat them for scratch resistance. The Coatings are usually sprayed on and dry like paint.
Over time the coatings degrade with sun exposure, causing them to yellow like wood varnish or a honey color. Eventually the coatings start to fleck off like a paint would.
My windshield was pretty bad, the coating was shrinking and cracking. If I took my fingernail I could scratch the stuff off.
The oven cleaner actually dissolved it and as I hosed it off it just rolled off onto the ground.
Tinting can be in the glass or a film as I understand it. If its in the glass, forget it. But- if it is a film - you probably can peel it off.
Use some dish detergent water, start at an edge and start working the water under the film and as it gets wet it will release from the plexiglass.
IF the tint was a sprayed coating? I don't know how or if they do that but maybe- the oven cleaner should take it off.
Let us all know for future reference if you do it.