Illegal window tint

[Chino 240Z]

On that one, I scrawled a scribble across the 'name' line on the ticket, put a barely legible 'HBPD325' in I.D. number, and went to the courthouse with a bag of Nickles to pay my $10 fixit ticket court costs...

That is why it is always good to keep copies of old tickets.... so you can choose an nice ociffer to sign your latest fix it tickets and don't forget their badge number too!

Just don't tell your spouse you did anything like forgery... it will be worse than the ticket itself! :dead:

One of the funniest tint tickets was when the cop shined his cool mag light into the window on my silver 72 Mach I, it had mirror tint to match the paint... he shined his own eyes with that one, but after getting his sight back he gave me only couple minutes to remove it on the spot. He was mad... oooooo......He and his partner had a good laugh with that one after I scrapped it, till he got out of site, then we through a party on the spot and toasted a cheer to those crime busters!

[Ed]

Just curious Ed. How much is the fine? Do they make you provide proof it has been removed?

I don't know what the fine is. Ticket doesn't say. My options are to plea guilty and mail in the ticket. I assume I'll get the fine afterwards. Or to plea not guilty and go to court.

BTW it was night time, I had the windows rolled up and the officer drove up besides me.

[Mr Camouflage]

I wonder if theres any time limit on when the laws apply? For example if the tint was applied 6 years ago and it was legal then, and in the mean time they changed the law, would your car have to comply, or would it be exempt?

[mars23z]

http://mysite.verizon.net/mountunionpolice/window_tint.htm

[Tony D]

The first time I got the 'illegal headlights' ticket, the 'public servant' who was not the sharpest trainee in the lot said "sir, it's for your own protection, nobody will see you with green headlights" and all I can think of saying was "you sure as hell looked like Woodsy Owl as you passed by, I thought your head was going to unscrew the way you gawked at my running lights!" When I showed them the lights went out automatically upon illumination of the headlights his training officer said "Oh, COOL!"---but mr Trainee couldn't back down after his stupid statement, you know, loss of face and all. And right there, on my passenger seat was the current pulp copy of the CVC (California Vehicle Code) I could have soooo made him look like an idiot on the spot in front of his training officer! "Excuse me, the section of the CVC you're citing, could you explain this passage here where it says "can be any color when off"? You see when I turn the switch 'off' to 'park' the lights glow green, and when 'off' they are totally unilluminated...but when I turn the headlight switch 'on' the little green 20 watt lights don't come on at all, and even if they did, you couldn't distinguish it...sounds compliant to me.

The second time around, the judge agreed, the first time, like I said...I wanted to extract my administrative pound of flesh to negate any sort of profit motive they had for the stop. Like sending a $1 check to a political canidate...it costs them $3 to process each payment, so the $2 net loss is a 'real help' to your policical adversaries!

Yeah, I have absolutely too much time to devote to this kind of activity!

[CoastGuardZ]

Ed,

Is your Z still registered and plated in New Mexico? I've never had issues up here and I've been told by cops that they wouldn't bother with me because of the out of state plates. Granted mine aren't as dark as your's, but they're legal for South Carolina and "illegal" for NY. Did you tell him you were in the BP? That stuff usually works...

If

(1) the Z is still registered in NM and

(2) the tint level is legal for NM,

then I would fight it.

But if both of the above are NOT true then you need to make it legal for the state it is registered in.

Good Luck,

Nate

[Alfadog]

I wonder if theres any time limit on when the laws apply? For example if the tint was applied 6 years ago and it was legal then, and in the mean time they changed the law, would your car have to comply, or would it be exempt?

In Australia at least, it would be exempt in this case.

[Ed]

The officer told me that since 1992 the law changed to where the drivers and passengers windows werent able to be darker than 75%. I've had the car in NY since 2002. I tinted the windows in 2003.

[CoastGuardZ]

I wonder if theres any time limit on when the laws apply? For example if the tint was applied 6 years ago and it was legal then, and in the mean time they changed the law, would your car have to comply, or would it be exempt?

This happened in my home state some years back (early 90's) and when the law changed your car had to comply with the new law because the tint was not original equipment. My father was stopped and the officer handed him a razor blade and gave him the option to remove it on the spot or take the $200 ticket... he removed it and had the new legal limit film applied a couple days later.

[Maddos]

Had mine tinted yesterday. 18% is what they actually offered me as it is an older car and can get away with it. They showed me examples on their cars first and isn't too bad.

[beandip]

Hi Ed, The tinting regulations vary from state to state. SUV's and Trucks fall into a different category here in Oregon and they can be darker than cars. I don't think that there is any point fighting the ticket, if the tint is in violation . That is cut and dried. Gary