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Author do you think my tints are legal?
shrews corsa
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28th Feb 04 at 17:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote



had to take the fronts off today thanks to the police
m-dot
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fronts dont look it
Makarus
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Well did the police test the tints with a light sensor??

If not then I would get them checked properly, a tinting company should do it for you, maybe ask for a couple of quid.

Unless the coppers can prove the tints are illegal they cannot force you to take them out.
Red_SXi
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28th Feb 04 at 17:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
What about this new law where the front windows can't be tinted at all tho?
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he had them tested and has to get the car re-mot'd got a redtification notice i believe! also front tints are now illegal anyway.
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erm uh oh
fuck em mine aint comng off ill get a 2nd set of front windows change em for mot and change em back
Marc
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28th Feb 04 at 17:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Well i can see through it looking a pic, and ive seen darker.
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28th Feb 04 at 17:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
back lights aren't strictly legal either
shrews corsa
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quote:
Originally posted by jaffa
back lights aren't strictly legal either


yeah lol they mentioned them when i was in the back of the police car but only said were they done properly so i said yep
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quote:
Originally posted by shrews corsa
quote:
Originally posted by jaffa
back lights aren't strictly legal either


yeah lol they mentioned them when i was in the back of the police car but only said were they done properly so i said yep




just hope they didn't check out the lights the red bulbs kept going pink
shrews corsa
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28th Feb 04 at 17:45   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
still are pink
jaffa
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Kris TD
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mine kept going pink, bought some led bulbs off ebay 5 quid a pair.
infinitycorsa
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quote:
Originally posted by Adam-D
erm uh oh
fuck em mine aint comng off ill get a 2nd set of front windows change em for mot and change em back



Thats what id do
infinitycorsa
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http://www.pentagonglasstech.com/news_legal_update.asp


give u a clue whats happening
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29th Feb 04 at 11:34   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
yeah and that sites not trying to sell you their window tints at all
Adam-D
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so if i take my car to a window tinting place they can test my windows to see if thier legal or not . correct?
Greg_M
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yes.
i have asked at least 5 coppers and the local window tinting place about the 'new law' and none of them know nothing about it
Adam-D
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29th Feb 04 at 11:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
as long as you dont drive like a tit round my way the police are usually ok
Greg_M
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29th Feb 04 at 11:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
agreed
Adam-D
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in 8-12 months it wont matter anyway my car wont even used on the road
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my tints look alot darker than they do, when i had them done i asked for them to be legal forgetting that sport windows are already slightly tinted. ive never been stoped for them yet though, touch wood.
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29th Feb 04 at 12:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
So have we decided if there is a new law or not?????
Claire Richardson
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There's a piece in this months Redline about the legalities of tints.
havent got it to hand at the mo, but from what I can remember of it, the new law has been brought in.
Its apparently down to a fatal accident in Wales involving a motorcyclist and a car with limo tints all round.
The cause of the accident was put down to restricted visability of the car driver due to the darkness of the tints.
So instead of changing the law to limiting the darkness of front windows to say, 35%, they decide to ban window tints to any window in front of the b pillars.
Tints can be as dark as you want from the b pillars back.
The law is now in place so its just a matter of time before anyone with illegal tints to be pulled and issued a producer or fined.
Check out Redline tho for the full story.

Claire
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29th Feb 04 at 22:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
well mine apparently only let 32.4% of the light through

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