Tinted my fronts

IIRC the front windows in the UK need to let 70% of light in but windscreen is 75%. You do need to watch if applying a 30% tint that the factory fit doesn't have some slight tint already (?) or the boys in blue will have you scraping that tint off at the roadside, which happened recently to my mate.

Tints look great! I'll be getting 20s also as soon as i pick up my car!

Far too dark to be legal in the UK, I personally will never understand why people do this. Get a raised vehicle with good visibility then tint the windows so dark you need to wind them down to see out properly at junctions.

Only my opinion but i think they are dangerous and pointless.

I have these kinds of tints currently on my RRSS and I can see perfectly out of them. I don't think people would get them if they were a hazard!

Unfortunately they just are not legal in the UK - traffic police patrols often carry a light transmission measuring device here and will pull you off to the side of the road, measure the light transmission and if your tints are too heavy you have to strip them off there and then or have the car impounded........................ and yes they have other more important jobs to do but catching traffic law violators is so much easier than having to get out of your nice warm plod mobile and having to pound the streets looking for real criminals.

(23-10-2011 01:33pm)XFullFatTim Wrote:  Unfortunately they just are not legal in the UK - traffic police patrols often carry a light transmission measuring device here and will pull you off to the side of the road, measure the light transmission and if your tints are too heavy you have to strip them off there and then or have the car impounded........................ and yes they have other more important jobs to do but catching traffic law violators is so much easier than having to get out of your nice warm plod mobile and having to pound the streets looking for real criminals.

So if you have illegal tints which cause you to pull out at a junction in front of a cyclist/motorcylist you didnt see because of the tints killing them you are not a real criminal then?

Drug dealers, burglars, rapists, etc etc etc nearly all drive cars, and a lot of them continue their total disregard for the law when driving/insuring/maintaining their cars. Getting to criminals through motoring offences is a tried and tested method. Its easyer to get a court to send a burglar to jail for disqualified driving than when they are convisted of burglaries. A sad but true state of affairs.

If I had the fronts tinted as well Im afraid mine would look like a right pimp mobile...so not for me...the plod would be pulling me up all the time

I can see out of it perfectly. Always had these type of tints on my previous cars.

I just find them very in considerate to other road users, especially pedestrians, cycles, motorcyclists, horse riders, etc. it stops communication and leads to uncertainty.

As I've said on other posts, the danger is in them not being able to see in, not in whether you can see out.

From Plod's point perspective it also let's them gauge the age of the driver. I hope they stop every car and remove them.

I had the tints on my ZR-Express when I first collected it, drove it for 3 years then got stopped by VOSA in Maidstone. I was given 10 days to remove then told that I had to phone the local test centre to have it inspected which happens to be near me in Gillingham. I did this but nobody answered the phone & there was just a domestic type of answerphone to which I left a message - never did get a call for it to be checked.

One thing the VOSA bod did say when he pulled me was that it was a shame to remove the tints as he said the vehicle looked stunning with them.
I wasn't bothered in the end anyway as the standard windows allbeit slightly tinted anyway now show up the Black leather & Red Alcantara better than before!!

On my present Rover 25GSi & on the MG ZT-T190SE I had I tinted just the tailgate only in Limo tint, this gives the whole rear of the car a darker apperance & does actually look like the rear windows are tinted anyway. It also keeps sun out of the loadspace & drivers behind can't see you either!