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Old Oct 24, 2021 | 11:12 AM
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Looking for a little help. Just bought a new screw With the STX package. Do I have a slight tint on my front door windows? It doesn’t look like I do but can’t seem to get the windows clean it seems to have a fog of some type. Thanks for your help.
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Old Oct 24, 2021 | 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by vomapaul
Looking for a little help. Just bought a new screw With the STX package. Do I have a slight tint on my front door windows? It doesn’t look like I do but can’t seem to get the windows clean it seems to have a fog of some type. Thanks for your help.
You can generally tell if you have film applied by rolling the window down and looking very closely for the edge of the film near the edge of the glass.

What are you cleaning the windows with (inside and out)?
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Old Oct 24, 2021 | 01:26 PM
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The stock tint on the front drivers and passenger windows is lighter that the rear windows by law. If yours are the same tint as the rears then your windows have been tinted. That’s a film placed on the inside of the windows. Stock tint is built into the window. If you cleaned an aftermarket tinted window with anything but clean water and mild soap, you have probably damaged the film.
some dealers in the SW tint the front windows at their dealership some don’t.
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Old Oct 24, 2021 | 01:36 PM
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I have tried windex and Dirtex. I don’t think there is any tint on it , looks like a smoker used to own it. It did have 225 miles on it when I bought it. They must have smoked up a storm on the ride from New Hampshire we’re it was delivered to cape cod dealer that I bought it from.
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I have tried windex and Dirtex. I don’t think there is any tint on it , looks like a smoker used to own it. It did have 225 miles on it when I bought it. They must have smoked up a storm on the ride from New Hampshire we’re it was delivered to cape cod dealer that I bought it from.
Avoid windex and anything else with ammonia. Just, in general, avoid.

Plain old water and a fresh out of the wash or brand new microfiber, bonus points for distilled water, for interior glass is generally all you need. An ammonia free like spray away or whatever seems to work well on the exterior and can be used interior
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Old Oct 24, 2021 | 03:47 PM
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I use invisible glass on mine, as does my tinter...
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Old Oct 24, 2021 | 03:56 PM
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Never heard of it before, a lot of people on Amazon love it. I will pick some up thanks for the heads up.
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Old Oct 24, 2021 | 07:25 PM
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SprayWay Glass Cleaner is great stuff, and safe to use on tinted (film) windows, too.

I cannot wait to get my new SuperCrew and tint the windows. Will go 1% on back glass and rear sides. 35% on roll down fronts, and either 70% on whole front windshield, or 35% across the top. Not sure.


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Just got my windows tinted.
not allowed to tint the fronts here so went 70%
The shop put a tint meter on it before hand and it read 82% so very little factory tint on the front
the back windows read 26%
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