Anyone ever had this happen? I live in a town where the cops have nothing better to do with their time. He pulls me over and puts a reflectivity meter on my window and it reads 17 percent, In florida it has to be 30. 30 is like factory tint, I dont know that you could even really consider it tint..anyway I now have to strip off the front two windows(he says the back can stay) and have it signed off by a cop and pay a 5 dollar fine, then I have to get it re-tinted. Retarded I tell you.

 

i thought they didnt care about that stuff in fla?

 

yeah me too, ive had for 2 years.

 

Hey, at lease it's a fix it ticket. Up here in Canada, no such thing, you get the ticket $120 and you pay it, then you also have remove the tint as well.

 

is it just me or has canada become super duper **** about performance enthousiasts? sounds a lil extreme to me....

 

living in canada would suck eh? its cold and they are down on enthusiats eh?

 

1st one I have heard of. I ride around w/ 5% (limo) and have never been hassled. But I think you have a loophole. Illegal tint is a non moving violation, so they cant pull you over just for that. You might have a case here. Like if you were pulled over for speeding, then yes, they can say "your tint is dark son"

Let us know

 

Oh no, I was pulled over just solely for tint, he came over and said "I pulled you over for your tint". luckily this shop i go to here is real cool, so tommorrow im goin in, they are strippin it, ill run down th street and get it signed off, go back to the shop and they are gonna 5% limo it.

 

Blue95accord is right...but i dont know if it worth fighting just to get out of it. It probally be more a hastle than its worth.

 

no legal tint in fl is 15% , ive asked every tint shop in town. I have 5% on my car.

 

His meter read 17 and it is supposed to be +/-2% in accuracy, he states 30% is legal, Im defiantly looking into this..

 

i got pulled over right after FnF.. and i got three tickets.. he said i was speeding .. i wasnt.. cause i was watching my guages. cause the night before i added indiglos.. anyway.. then he said my bulbs were blue.. i told him no. they are hyperwhite
he said he never had hyperwhite in his crayon box.. well i then said he could of afforded the Big Box of like 200.. he might of.. he actually laughed.. then gave me a ticket cause my front tint is like an inch lower than that line A23 or something.. damm him..

also pointed out on my tails that the bulbs blink white and soem other stuff.. he said a whole bunch of crap and i took him to court.. got off on a lot.. but still had to pay for the speeding.. cause i couldnt prove against it.. i am in FL .. look into it. .but if its a fix it .. i would pay the five bucks..

 

I guess its not the money, its the fact that he pulled me over for that and just that. I wanted to darker tint my windows anyway, and this just gives me a valid reason to do so.

 

That seems rough. My tint is pretty dark and I never got any trouble from it. I guess FL is hard on tuners.

 

That bites. I've been pulled over twice since I've owned my T/A with tinted windows (is it 4 years already?) and both times the officer has complimented the tint. Go figure.

 

You could move to SC, no stupid tint laws here

 

But SC drivers are terrible

 

In VA, I actually know someone who was pulled over for having a tint, and the cops wouldn't let him leave until he peeled all of it off.

 

This getting pulled over for BS isnt anything new around here, I have been pulled over for clear side markers, loud bass, and exhaust. My friend has a b18 hatch on sprint springs and he got pulled over when he scraped a speedbump! Its bad around here...

 

Trust me, you FL people have it MUCH easier.

 

yeah, bring it to the track, Ill be in columbia tommorow for the autoX

 

i got pulled over in december for my tint...dude said i was to reflective...that was back in the day...that fashion over function days...but anyways...in TX you can have any percentage tint in the back but piggy said it was to refelctive..he didnt even check my front windows...then he checked my inspection and reg. and he notcied the banner below the AS-1 line...since then ive been tint free...but im gettin tired of burning up in my car so i might get it tinted again...but legally...hmmm....

 

check out this page for a summary of all states' laws...

 

My father (a local police officer) even said to me "tint used to be the big deal with a modified car, but with all these illegal lights and unmuffled cars with neon and strobe lights its no longer a concern, just having tinted windows on a car isnt really worth our time when there are bigger violations out there, if the tint is really extreme we might give them a ticket if we have pulled them over for something else, but never for just tint"

 

i agree with your dad, but this view varies tremendously among police officers throughout the country. some traffic officers just plain get bored and pull you over for anything they choose.