Can some please post some pics of a car with 30% window tint (70% light transfer)...
In PA 30% window tint is the legal limit. From what I understand... 30% is pretty much really friggin' light, and almost nothing. Can someone please post a pic of 30% tint.
"For some reason it is a very American thing to do to take highly unlikely vehicles and stick insane engines in them at huge cost for no reason." Oh hell yeah!!
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in pa u are not aloud to have tint
i have 35% tint, and its legal here in wisconsin.................
um, i don't have any pics, but i'll tell ya how it looks? at night u can't really see into the car, and durin' the day (full sun), u can tell its tinted, but u can see into the car. if i were driving next to u on a sunny day, u could see my outline, but not my face or what color my clothing was.
^ hope that helps?
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ha i have 15 percent i know measured when i got my "inspection"
. 35% is legal around here its light but not that light
I have 5%
Breaking the law.. Breakin the law..
Its a bitch to see at night when backing up.. but nobody really says much about it
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I've always said, if you're going to break the law with tints, get tints you like. No point in getting in trouble with light tints, get dark enough ones you actually like then it'll be worth it.
Plus, it's like a $50 ticket...no big deal.
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The tints came with the car when I bought it. It was used, had 16k miles when I got it last January. The dealership had just inspected it too only about 3 weeks before I bought it. Isn't it illegal for them to sell a car isn't legal to drive? It's $105.55 fine here for window tint here in PA.
Another question I have is what are the chances that my rear window defogger is going to break if I remove the tint? I'm going to be seriously pissed if it messes up my defogger when I wasn't the one who put it on the car in the first place. I think the dealer I got the car from should have to repair it if it does.
"For some reason it is a very American thing to do to take highly unlikely vehicles and stick insane engines in them at huge cost for no reason." Oh hell yeah!!
The Hellserpent
Aiming to be the LARGEST directory of Sport Compact Enthusiasts in the Northeast!
In PA its legal to tint your windows as long as you dont tint the driver side window and passenger side window. anything behind them can be tinted. idk the tint percentage though
In Pa if your tint is illegal then all you have to do is roll down your windows when you go through inspection. My cousin lives there and a cop pulled him over and made him take the tint off himself.
Just drive the car w/ the tint...
Chances are, if you do get pulled over for tint- You'll just get a fix-it ticket..
Be sure to tell the officer you purchased the car w/ the tint installed.
Like mentioned above- you would only have to remove the tint on the 2 front windows.. And yes, you would probably fark up the defroster if you peeled the back window.
Below is from one of my previous posts. In summary, you can have ANY tint you want as long as you can see into either the windshield or front door windows. No percentages are given. And Evilserpent, neither the DMV nor PennDOT makes the law, don't believe anything from them.
Mike Brock wrote:Unless a law was passed recently which I haven't read about, you are allowed to have any tint you want in Pennsylvania if you can see in through either the front door windows or the winshield.
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§ 4524. Windshield obstructions and wipers.
(a) Obstruction on front windshield.--No person shall drive any motor vehicle with any sign, poster or other nontransparent material upon the front windshield which materially obstructs, obscures or impairs the driver's clear view of the highway or any intersecting highway except an inspection certificate, sticker identification sign on a mass transit vehicle or other officially required sticker and no person shall drive any motor vehicle with any ice or snow on the front windshield which materially obstructs, obscures or impairs the driver's clear view of the highway or any intersecting highway.
(b) Obstruction on side and rear windows.--No person shall drive a motor vehicle with any sign, poster or other nontransparent material, including ice or snow, upon the side wings or side or rear windows of the vehicle which materially obstructs, obscures or impairs the driver's clear view of the highway or any intersecting highway. The placement of a registration permit upon the side or rear window of a vehicle shall not be considered a material obstruction.
(c) Other obstruction.--No person shall drive any motor vehicle with any object or material hung from the inside rearview mirror or otherwise hung, placed or attached in such a position as to materially obstruct, obscure or impair the driver's vision through the front windshield or any manner as to constitute a safety hazard.
(d) Windshield wiper systems.--The windshield on every motor vehicle other than a motorcycle or special mobile equipment shall be equipped with a wiper system capable of cleaning rain, snow or other moisture from the windshield, and so constructed as to be controlled or operated by the driver of the vehicle.
(e) Sun screening and other materials prohibited.--
No person shall drive any motor vehicle with any sun screening device or other material which does not permit a person to see or view the inside of the vehicle through the windshield, side wing or side window of the vehicle.
This subsection does not apply to:
A vehicle which is equipped with tinted windows of the type and specification that were installed by the manufacturer of the vehicle or to any hearse, ambulance, government vehicle or any other vehicle for which a currently valid certificate of exemption has been issued in accordance with regulations adopted by the department.
A vehicle which is equipped with tinted windows, sun screening devices or other materials which comply with all applicable Federal regulations and for which a currently valid certificate of exemption for medical reasons has been issued in accordance with regulations adopted by the department.
A certificate of exemption shall be issued by the department for a vehicle which is:
Registered in this Commonwealth on the effective date of this subsection and is equipped with a sun screening device or other material prohibited under paragraph (1) on the effective date.
Equipped with tinted windows, sun screening devices or other materials for a physical condition that makes it necessary to equip the motor vehicle with sun screening material which would be of a light transmittance or luminous reflectance in violation of this section.
(A) A certificate of exemption for medical reasons shall be issued only if the owner or registrant of the vehicle, or a person residing in the household of the owner or registrant who regularly drives or is driven in the vehicle, suffers from a physical condition determined by the department, in consultation with the Medical Advisory Board, to justify the exemption.
(B) Any person requesting an exemption for medical reasons shall have his physical condition certified to the department by a licensed physician or optometrist.
A certificate of exemption issued under this subsection shall be carried in the vehicle and displayed on request of a police officer.
Upon the sale or transfer of the vehicle to any person who does not qualify under paragraph (2)(ii), the exemption shall be null and void. Prior to the sale or transfer of an exempt vehicle, it shall be the sole responsibility of the owner or seller of a formerly exempt vehicle to remove all sun screening or other materials from the vehicle. At the time of the sale or transfer of a formerly exempt vehicle, the owner shall remove and destroy the certificate of exemption for physical reasons and provide the purchaser with a notarized statement setting forth the name and address of the owner or seller, the vehicle identification number, year and model, and the business entity and process used to remove the sun screening or other material.
(f) Exception.--This section does not apply to mobile recording equipment installed in a vehicle exclusively used for official police purposes.
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I've seen SUV's come standard with much darker.
It doesn't matter what something "came with". If it's illegal, it's illegal. Car makers (I would assume) build to Federal Motor Vehicle standards. But that doesn't mean ANYTHING. The states make up their own vehicle code (pesky 10th Amendment). The states just generally don't care to enforce the codes.
Please, for the love of god people don't post misinformation. Read the law, then post, not what my second cousins former roommate knew a cop who told him...
Oh, and a search would of answered your question, I answered this same question just a few week ago.
PA tint laws
Evilserpent wrote:Isn't it illegal for them to sell a car isn't legal to drive?
NO. It's illegal to mis-represent it, not sell it.
And something funny, when I spell checked, one of the suggestions for DMV was DUMB.
Mike Brock wrote:No person shall drive any motor vehicle with any sun screening device or other material which does not permit a person to see or view the inside of the vehicle through the windshield, side wing or side window of the vehicle.
All I know is I can see into my car with no problem at all through the tint that's on it. At night yeah maybe it's tough to see into it, but during the day you can see through it just fine. When I got pulled over I was delivering about $80.00 worth of flowers to local hospital. It was 1am in the morning and it was storming like all hell. Any car would have been hard to see into at that moment. I think the cop must have been pretty bored. I'm not sure what percentage of tint I have on the car since it came with it when I bought the car. I have no problem taking the tint off if it's too dark. I just want to have documentation of the tint law and have it retinted to whatever is allowed. The law is the law, but I also know that there are a lot of police officers out there who like may not like tint and will tell you flat out that you have to take it off whether it meets the legal percentage or not. I want tint on my windows, but I also want to obide by the written law.
"For some reason it is a very American thing to do to take highly unlikely vehicles and stick insane engines in them at huge cost for no reason." Oh hell yeah!!
The Hellserpent
Aiming to be the LARGEST directory of Sport Compact Enthusiasts in the Northeast!
i live in texas, rules are a bit diff.
i have 25% all around, pretty close to 30..sorry its the only pic i have
Why are you sorry you're the only one who posted a pic
^^^^ It's not very close at all, he wants 70% tint. not 30%, he said 70% light transfer. That would be practically transparent.
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^^^^ It's not very close at all, he wants 70% tint. not 30%, he said 70% light transfer. That would be practically transparent.
yep he dont kno what he is talkin about since he is a noob. he confused the numbers. if youy get good tint visibility will be perfect from inside the car. it would be just as if you had a dimmer on your rearview mirror. if you go to a place that puts on the cheap tint then its goin to be different and if you ask for something dark it may be darker than what you wanted.
my bad, got the #'s mixed up...dont know why someone would want somethin soo light..
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Evilserpent
Can some please post some pics of a car with 30% window tint (70% light transfer)...
just figured since he wantd pix..i'd post a pic
^^ yea i kno, for that just wear the sunglasses
