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Age: 35
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My truck was broken into about a year ago through the passenger side, I replaced the window but I've put off retinting the window. I had my windows tinted 2 years ago, but I can't remember if it was 5% or 10% tint. Anyways, I want to get it tinted over again, as dark as I can. I also want to get my front windshield completely tinted, instead of the thin strip up high. I'm gonna do it at this local shop which I have heard good things about, so should I ask for 5% or just dark as I can get it?
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Sanding Season
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Re: Window tint
depening on your state laws, the tinting will vary. In missouri, we can have on the back 3 windows (back winshield, ext. cab windows) 5%. On the passenger and driver side doors, the maximum is 15%. I got my whole winshield done 35% which is the state maximum you can have. you cant have anything lower than those on the front 3 windows or it will be considered "illegal" in the state of missorui. However I have never come accross a cop who has said "that looks like its 25% on your winshield and the legal limit is 35% so im gonna have to give you a ticket." I was worried about 35% not being dark enough, but since my back winshield is hella dark, if you look in the front of the truck through the winshield you cant see sh!t. So it you dont need to worry about it being dark cause it will be. But I would definitly check with your tinting shop about whats legal or not.
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Age: 67
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Re: Window tint
If the shop you are taking your vehicle to is as good as you believe, they'll know by looking just what % you have or had. Your original may have faded some by now.
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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Re: Window tint
I had 1% on for one day.. It was soo freakin dark I couldn't
hardly look OUT of it much less in.It was a deep red inside almost BLACK looking in. I hauled ass back to the tinter's the next day and told em rip that stuff off..I almost hit an old lady on a bicycle when I was turning because I didn't see her and it was at 2:00 in the afternoon. That tint was nuts... ![]() |
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Re: Window tint
LOL I'm sure I would have some road rage when it wasn't even planned out due to a 1% tint job. Good times! lol |
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Subsonic Kustomz!
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Re: Window tint
i dont know man. i knew someone that had his windows too dark and the cop made him peel it on the side of the road before he let him go.
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bellcranks no more
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Re: Window tint
ive heard stories like that but i doubt theyre true. it just doenst make sense. unless its like 1%... they dont necessarily peel that easily off.
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Subsonic Kustomz!
Age: 27
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Re: Window tint
dude, i know the guy personally, it happened and it does happen. some cops are dicks on a power trip.
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Re: Window tint
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Re: Window tint
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Re: Window tint
i've heard of cops cutting an x into the tint b/c it was illegal
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Re: Window tint
the door window runs about $20 and the windshield runs about $40 tinted FYI |
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De-extremed S-10 Sonoma?
Age: 23
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Re: Window tint
And yes, people do get pulled over for tint. I did for my 5%, right here in Missouri (O' Fallon to be precise). I currently have an $83 ticket I'm about to mail in. It's not clear whether I just have to pay the fine or whether I'll have to pay the fine and remove the tint, but I guess I'll find out once I send the ticket in. |
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Re: Window tint
Make that pulled over twice for tint now . . . in the same month.
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Re: Window tint
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Registered User
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Re: Window tint
wow, u can actually tint ur whole windsheilds in pa u cant even have 50% on the front windsheild and if ur tint strip is to big they break ur balls, driver and pass windows 35% max
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Re: Window tint
Windsheild illegal as hell in Tn also .....Nashville Metro cops bust balls over tint , atleast they used to
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Re: Window tint
yEA i had my windshield don 35% and got yanked a week after i got it done
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Re: Window tint
heres some pics of my front winshield with a little rain
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De-extremed S-10 Sonoma?
Age: 23
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Re: Window tint
Just be careful, especially in O' Fallon if you go through there. I've had 5% for 9 months. The first 8 months I wasn't bothered at all, and now the last two times I've had to drive through O' Fallon to get to school I've been pulled over. And both times the cops had electronic meters to read the tint level. |
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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Re: Window tint
yeah the only cool thing my s10 came with when i bought it was an alpine deck and tinted windows but within one week i had two 140 dollar tickets for illegal tint so i had that shit taken off except for my rear window which remains at 20% michigan is shitty we cant have any tint what-so-ever on the driver/passenger/ windsheild
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Re: Window tint
ya in IL its the drivers and passenger and windshiled windows cant have any but the rest of the windows can have i think 20% and a 6" strip accross the top of the windshiled... stupid crap but ive had my rear window at 5% for the last year and havent been hassled by the po. folowed for miles by cops but they never do anything...
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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Re: Window tint
would make me take it off, fine me, call me names, and generally put the squeeze on me for any other thing on my old ride. Maybe if I told em I was an illegal immigrant they'd leave me alone... They do so with all the other illegals showing their asses around here.. >http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg....DvcTXF.O06Ew-- Last edited by bg's : 05-09-2006 at 11:49 PM. |
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Age: 20
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Re: Window tint
in ga we can have an 8" strip on the windsheild, 32% on the driver and passenger door windows and as dark as you want on the rest.
i have 5% on my bak glasses and had 20% on my door windows. needless to say after a month or two a gsp pulled my over and his scanner said 14%. he gave me a warning but i ripped it off the next day due to junior senior on the island ![]() |
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Re: Window tint
my personal favorite is 2% all the way around... and 35% on the entire front windshield
one of my older cars... ![]() |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Re: Window tint
ive heard stories like that too. but thats destruction of private property or soemthing you could prob win that in court. |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Re: Window tint
gilafilms.com has a list of laws |
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Re: Window tint
I have llumnar 5% all the way around on my truck and mustang and on the back windows of my truck I have an extra layer of 5%....i like it.
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Wuz 1Bad89Coupe
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Re: Window tint
![]() [img]The pewter one is mine, just a couple older pics. Last edited by Pro5ohKid : 05-11-2006 at 09:49 PM. |
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