anyone know how dark we can go? or where to go to find out?
PA sucks for tinting... 70% isn't even noticable.
lol, well, at least its something...gotta help keep my interior from fading...at least this will do something...
anything darker than 20% will get you trouble. If you can, try to leave the front windows very light or untinted at all. I have 5% tint on the back windows and no tint on the front and I have had 5 different incidents where cops gave me @!#$ for it being too dark but they let me go with a warning when they saw I was clear on the front windows.
I have heard all sorts of different things on this, directly from cops themselves that if it's not factory tint it's illegal, it can be as dark as a troopers windows (I have seen cop cars with 5%, not that it matters though) and that it has to be 70% or more (which is the law).
Good luck.
70% is the factory tint if i'm not mistaken...
i have mine at 15%. only been pulled over and ticketed for it once.
my Escort had 22% on the back windows & never got stopped for it, the cav has the chrome fade Tint and ive only gotton a warning about it , but never got stopped for it
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I got 15% all around on mine get pulled over about 1 every 2 months lol its always a warnin
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JokerAKA Showoff03LS wrote:my Escort had 22% on the back windows & never got stopped for it, the cav has the chrome fade Tint and ive only gotton a warning about it , but never got stopped for it
cops around my area HATE that reflective @!#$..the mexicans around here were goin ape@!#$ over having to peel it off their hondas
ive had my GS tinted since july now and its 15% all the way around including about half the windshield. no problems yet.
I had 15% all the way around my Sunfire in NY and was only ticketed for tint when I was being let off of another ticket...ie, you were 15mph over, but here's a tint ticket.
I don't understand the whole 70% in the rear thing (in PA, NY and some others) as I know many SUV's are shipped with factory tint darker than this. Don't most Trailblazers have darker tint aside from the front windows?
Brian
FrostySunfire wrote:I had 15% all the way around my Sunfire in NY and was only ticketed for tint when I was being let off of another ticket...ie, you were 15mph over, but here's a tint ticket.
I don't understand the whole 70% in the rear thing (in PA, NY and some others) as I know many SUV's are shipped with factory tint darker than this. Don't most Trailblazers have darker tint aside from the front windows?
if it comes from the factory that way, its legal. if its after market then its illegal. its stupid but thats the law.
I got stopped a few weeks ago in CT. Here its 35% on sides and any on the rear.
I have <15% that cam on my cav when I got it 2+ years ago.
Mark wrote:I got stopped a few weeks ago in CT. Here its 35% on sides and any on the rear.
I have
it may have came on it, but not from the factory
Brian
I run 17% all the way around, only been stopped twice in the past 4 years. The second time being 4 days ago. $109.50. BLOWS!
i have 20% on my sunfire in the front and 5% on the rear and have never been stopped for it. been stopped for other sh*t but never had anytthing said about the tint. My Talon has somewhere south of 20% on it that was on when i got the car and nothing yet, knock on wood.
i was told my our local cop, yeah i asked. he said anything behind your front seats can be blacked out if you want, nothin in front of your front seats can have anything.
thats just what i was told.
Does anyone think if i plead not guilty, and present this information to the judge,i will get out?
Tint laws
I'm confident that any judge in a traffic court is going to be familiar with the laws. Pretty sure whatever some Joe Schmoe puts on his website isn't going to change that.
Brian
i dont see how you would have a case sabio, what are you going to tell him? "it came like that from factory"?
I was thinking along the lines of how it says that the statute nor the Regulations prohibit it. and it says "Even the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, speaking on behalf of the Secretary of Transportation, agrees that nothing in the PA STATUTE, the PA CODE, or the INSPECTION REGULATIONS prohibits tint, but that it is only . . .
"... the Department's interpretation that FMVSS 205...only allows window tinting that permits 70% or more light to transmit through the window." "
and so on. It's a long shot i was just throwing it out there.
FrostySunfire wrote:I'm confident that any judge in a traffic court is going to be familiar with the laws. Pretty sure whatever some Joe Schmoe puts on his website isn't going to change that.
I agree, i just wanted to see wht you guys thought.
factory glass has a tint to it already at 70%. your gonna lose matt. just take the tint off and tell the judge u removed it and usually they drop it or pay the fine and keep it on there. the fine is gonna be cheaper than retinting them anyways....
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i'd be careful...I know NY has a multiple offender law where they can tow you on the spot.
Brian
