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This might not help you 'cause the headlights are plastic, but I was able to take the tint off my windows with masking tape, trashbags, and Simple Green. Spray it with Simple Green, and use masking tape to cover up the tint with the thin garbage bag material. Then let it sit in the sun for an hour, and you can peel it off in one big sheet. A razor blade and some camping fuel (aka white gas) can help you remove the last of the adhesive.

 

It depends on the material thickness and manufacture/supplier of the vinyl. In my past business when we have had a customers want a redo on the head light or other places it is a careful use of a heat gun to start an edge and than carefully pull it down and away. The head light is designed to take heat as long as you apply it evenly. Keep your hand on the part you are apply the heat to. If you can not stand the heat with your hand then it is to hot for the headlight. If it is old vinyl than patients is a must. It will crack and break at every mm. Do not use any caustic chemicals around the plastic or painted surfaces without first checking in an area that will not ever be seen if it is safe to use. Most chemicals will have a bad effect on plastic.

 

A heat gun will work, but so will a hairdryer. It is safer, and should be all the heat you need to liven the adhesive. Spraying with WD40 on the edge you are pulling up will also help, and won't hurt anything.

Mark

 

Noooooooooo!! heehe.

Yeah, a heat gun/hair dryer will do the trick.

Unmodding?

 

Most heat gun at least have a low and high setting and a designed air flow nose for this type of work.Some of the better heat guns have adapters for controlling the air flow from wide to narrow as well as a multiple heat settings with consistent reliable air temperature flow.
A note about using WD40 if you plan on a re vinyl lubricants will make the new application much harder to adhere. Lubricants tend to remain in the work and are not easy to wash clean.

Can't remember the last time my Snap on or Mack tool guy showing me the latest Revlon Hair drier to use in my work? :lol:

Thats what I thought but maybe doing a new vinyl look and calling you as I post? :cornut:

 

Great:cornut:

Mark

 

pull..

I just did mine a couple of weeks ago. I replaced my old pitted film with new ones