So what's the real deal

[ryanfx]

With tint laws?

From what I can tell they are secondary offences but I constantly hear about people getting pulled over for them. If they are a secondary offence, and you ask an officer why he pulled you over and he answers for your tint does that automatically get you out of the ticket? I've had my tint on for more than 6 months now and havn't had one single issue.

[V]

its complicated, yes its a techinically a secondary offense, but cops still pull over for it. and that reason is usually is for "obstruction of veiw" which many tint tickets are called anyway. also anythign hanging from the rearveiw mirror is illegal and also considered obstruction of veiw. As for asking a cop why he pulled you over and if he says tints, that in no way gets you out of a ticket. and if you say "well you can't just pull me over for tints"... you're gonna get one if not more tickets right there. Never try to tell a cop the laws, lol, they will almpst always win. Ive dealt with tints on my cars for almost all of the 9 years ive been driving. ive taken a few tickets, talked my way out of most, and for the past 2 years i just dont get tickets :-D And remember it all comes down to this, tints may look great, but they are illegal in NJ and were for a long time, so its nothing new. its a risk we have to take if we want the look.

Now im not sayign cops are always right, one night i got pulled over because the cop said my car was too loud and the tint on my HATCH was illegal(rear tint can be 0% if desired), anyways, i didnt get a ticket(of course) but i wanted to argue but i shut up and went on my way, mainly because i was just at a bar and probably shouldn't have been driving. but a cop i know told me i should have argued and got the ticket just so that cop would have been laughed out of court. oh and as for the loud car, i was driving around with NO catback and a off-road y pipe, lol. i had it liek that for about 6 months, never a ticket.

[ryanfx]

on a side note..

Squirrel's trans am sounded AMAZING after his flow master muffler got ripped off.. was just running open y pipe lol.


but that's interesting.. i'm going to do some more research and see what I can dig up :)

[qwikz28]

i got a warning a couple weeks ago for my tints. cop was real nice about it and was like "its not a huge deal and its not really worth handing out tickets for, but i pullled ya over to see if you were trying to hide somthing" he gave me a written warning and told me to drive safe and watch out for ******* cops that would give tickets for that. i think one of these days im gonna rip down the side tints i have and back them down from 15 to 25% just cause i think they are a little too dark for night time driving

[ryanfx]

^ left hand turns at night with my tint drives me crazy :(

half the time i'm rolling down my windows and getting wet in the rain =/

[project89]

i used to have 15% fader tint on the rs,always got taged for that,but ive since riped that off and put on some 5% tint on both windows,still need to tint the hatch glass.never got stope donce for the 5%,though when i go threw seaside or places liek that the windows get rolled down.and yeah night driving sux at times with 5%