So today, making a left off my friends street, there was a cop sitting in a bush on a motorcyle. He pulled me over for my 18% front tint . He also gave me a fix-it for the address on my licensce. For the tint ticket, is there a fine with that also?

Edit: I meant 18% front tint, srry. I have 7% in the back.

 

i've gotten pulled over for tint on my old car too many times... You can just pay the 110$ fine and keep it on or you could plead not guilty and sometimes they wont make you pay the ticket if you remove the tint and show them with-in a certain period of time....Trust ME..lol

 

Or to help head this off in the future, if you know any physicians you can see about getting a note from them depending on how well you know 'em.

Either for them treating you for headaches or photophobia (skin condition) which necessitates you having dark tint.

I've been meaning to see a chiropractor I went to college with to get one.

 

or you could of just got the legal tint in the first place cuz u must of known you had it comming since u knew they are illegal. but sometimes thats a price you have to pay to look good.

 

or you could just roll your windows down when you see a cop....

 

Of course that depends on the state, one of my police officer friends showed me one time. He put a tint meter on his cruiser, it was of course factory tint on a front side window and just a little dirty, it was a few points from illegal. To conform in Ohio is almost impossible.

 

I think tis 50% in ohio........anyone know?

 

I think I have read that somewhere too about the 50% tint, which blows, at least when it comes to style points ha

 

Motorcycle cop hidden up on a curb behind a tree. O, and in california, any tint on the 2 front windows is illegal, they just usallly dont pull you over for it unless it's a little bit too dark. btw, i meant 18% tint up front, not 7.

 

In my state, if a cop pulls you over for tint, you can fight the ticket and say it was on when you passed inspection and win.

When you see a cop, just put your windows down!

 

in most states, its actually illegal to tint your car at all!!
believe it or not!, but thats never enforced
they go by readings
and in most states that have requirements, such as NY, the stock tint from the factory is put right at the limit, so any additional tint will throw it off

 

If I remember... IN NY you can tint your car all around up to or as low as 30% With out having any problems...... Basicly it's like a smoked tint!

 

ohio is 35%

 

How the hell do you see at night with that much tint? Especially if you are backing up?

 

Pretty sure it's 50%. I got a verbal for 35% tint last year.

 

in ny the stock tint is the limit
i think its 65%VLT, if i remember right
your window will say on it what its rated at
so any addt'l tint would make it illegal, technically
but in NY you can tint the rear window and rear side windows as long as you have both side mirrors

 

This may not work in all states. I did the same thing here in IA and right on the dot release it says only to 35%. Without the release you can't do any tinting on the front windows at all. That never stoped me though. On my old grand am I had 5% on everything but the windshield.

 

Here in Vegas, I have had limo tint on all but front window for years. Everyone here does it. Even some of my cop friends have it. If I go visit family in Cali, I get pulled over almost every time. They try to play hardball, but when said and done they can't really do ****, i'm from out of state. Have not put tint on my SS/SC yet. Just not on the top of things to do yet.

 

I use 5% black tint on my truck and have a note from my eye doctor stating I suffer from photophobia. All I did was say, hey doc, I wanna have window tint and in order to have it legally I need a note saying my eyes are bad and he said sure. I've used it one time and the cop let me go with no fine.

 

asked a tint shop, its 50% front driver/passanger windows, and as dark as you like on any window behind that, and you can only have the stipe on the windshield no whole window tint

 

Ohio is 50% on the driver and passenger windows. Dark as you want in the back of the car. 6inch strip in the front windshield is also allowed. Where i got my tint done would only warranty his work if i got a legal tint. Well it was smart because I have gotten pulled over and the cop metered it. I was at 45%. He said I was close enough. lol. But it's 50%, not 35%.

http://www.tintdude.com/ntoo.html

 

Damn 7% in the back!? My friends Cavalier has 20% and we can hardly see anything behind especially backing up at night.

I literally had to step out and guide him to back up so we wouldn't hit anything

 

When I got pulled over for tint. I was told that no tint is legal in PA

 

Can check your state laws here also....

http://www.autowindowtintings.com/stateLaws.ihtml

 

That state window tint web site is messed up. Im buddies with a state trooper and a couple sheriffs and they told me tint is only legal if it is installed from the factory, and even then the front side windows cant be more than 70%. Anyways the site says-
NY front sides-70% rear sides-70% back window-ANY% front visor-6"
and the cops told me-
front sides-70% rear sides-ANY% back window-ANY% front visor- 8"

As far as it being from the factory, who cares, you think the cop is gonna sit there and try to peel the tint off?

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