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why are these peeps windows lettin thru 0.7% and stuff.
WHAT ARE THEY....PAINTED!!!!!!!! even my limo black back and sides still let light innot much but some.i have light smoke front sides and a limo black 5 inch deep sunvisor.can see out but the outside world cant see ur forehead. as far as i knew u cant tint the windscreen at all.and hu wud n e way.sunvisors yes but the whole screen. Even 1%on that is too much.are u allowed mirror tints if they let the correct amount of lite thru.i heard u cudnt cos of the distraction to other road users.This i can uderstand as once i got the sun in my eyes when followin a white van man down a steep hill.Still look kool tho

i got pulled last week and got the lecture about tints! he got that booklet out and the laws that scooby showed a copy of there.

I just played really dumb and said "o really i didnt know, i thought it was just the windscreen you couldnt have tinted" and because i played so stupid when he said it was the front ones i was like "omg really, i'd have taken them off if i'd known, i didnt think they wer dangerous so left them on, i wud have taken them off if i'd known"
Then the policeman was jus like "yeh they r illegal mate u shud get em taken off"

He didnt issue anything formal or do a light test so although he did say "i'd guess yours let 20% of the light thro if that" when they are actually 50% on the front! but i didnt wanna correct him because i was trying to act stupid!
And it worked!

Well this time it worked anyway.
I can see where the laws are coming from, because if you get chavs who do their own self-tint with limo style tints then it wud be impossible to see out. but with smoked front windows etc they still look cool and are still pretty easy to see out of most of the time, and as scooby says, if u ever have a problem u just click a button and open the windows and look out!!

I think it wud be funny to go to a policestation car park at night with some tint film and tint the front of all of the cars with limo black film and superglue (even tho u'd have to do it on the outside, and you might possibly get arrested and in a lot of trouble it would be funny to see their faces!)

Ok i'm jus chattin Shiiiit now but you get my point!

Got pulled tonight by the north welsh plod!

Tried acting a bit dumb but he still seemed to have it in for me, firstly he said you were speeding then but I ain't doing you for that, very very confusing as I wasn't speeding and only reason he didn't do me was he had no proof so as being an officer of the law he had too find something wrong with the car. Front side window tints aha. He had the tester thing, showed me it was fully calibrated and then on he went approx 22% coming in, I was very suprised.

£30 fine and for me too take them off! Nothing more! Really confuses me with the consistinsy of these coppers and how they all work differently!
I then started to get cheeky with the cop and started asking more and asking if cop cars were legal then as they look as dark as mine, apparently any tint that comes manufactored there fine and most cars already have tints. I asked alsorts then about sun visors, and stuff like why they so illegal, to be fair everything he answered was true as it was the same as in the manual! I even got so cheeky to say why's it legal to drive with sunglasses??

All I gotta say is not against all these laws but were is the god damm consistincy!

Were does my hard earned £30 go now to, government, I pay enough god damm tax! This world is a crazy 1!


Rant over!

Yeah was last night after drooping ur biatch off.

He said that they can still see you turned towards them with sunglasses on.

Yeah 28 days too pay it.

From Above :

• £30 fine and for me too take them off!
  Didnt you have the option to remove them there and then ? (Save a fine).
  In your defence, Its not a test that MOT's carry out so how were you suposed to know they were illegal? (something to consider anyway?).

• if cop cars were legal then as they look as dark as mine
  Ask to see the documentation for this is he says that manufactured cars are legal?
  As scooby was telling me that when he was issued with a producer
  that a brand new car in front (dont remmber the make)
  was being given a producer to have them removed, and the
  lady was screaming "its a new car i bought it like this"
  More to think about and reslove i think!!

If we can clarify a defence, then consistancy would follow.

Anyone know about the manufactured cars ?
And can they now give you a fine now (on the spot)?
Even if you offer to take them off now.

Just to clear it up and help anyone in the future.

And the best one of all, look for faults on there car?
Break lights, Head lights... Might just swing it back in your favour..

i was stopped and told to take my tints off. this too was a result of them being heavily tinted but the reasons behind them being banned was that the traffic bobby couldnt see what i was doing and there fore could not antissipate my next move, he was on a bike and said this causes accidents. hmmmmmmm.

when you buy a a brand new car and want tinted windows it is not a film which is stuck on, the window is actually tinted when made, this was the case when i worked for landrover big companys could hav ethe hassel of customers coming back saying my windows have bubbled or scratched.

how can take the tint of a window when it is actually the glass? but how do you get that across the the angry police man who knows he is being stumped

Well woke up this mornin to me car with no front tints

My mum decided to take my car as her's wouldn't start. She comes accross about a dozen coppers randomly stopin cars to do vehicle checks along the road leading upto birkenhead town centre. Get's stopped by a copper who checks everything, details e.t.c and says on you go miss, as she went to drive off an above the law kinda cop decides to run over and stop her. Asks did the last copper do you for your tints, i dunno my mum says, he checks her notes and says pull in. He then publically rants and raves at this other cop, and proceeds to test the car with the lightmeter. 23% i got this time(different then last time, mmmm) he explains the law to her and says he must in-pound the car ha ha, my mum gives it the i didsn't kno about any such law e.t.c so he said ok i want them takin off and proved by today. My mum says that'd cost a bomb so he said they are only stickers and proceeded to rip them and show her how to take them off.

He then checks up and says i've been given a £30 fine before and asked to take them off, and i have blantinly ignored the law so he says my car will have to stay with them. Luckily my mum give the i didn't kno he got pulled and if i did he would noty be driving around, she also went on moaning of how they always pull the law abiding 1's. So he let us off with just getting them removed by a test centre and proving it at a cop shop.


What get's me tho is the consistinsy of these cops, knowing the laws and what machines there using.

Glad it wasn't me who was pulled tho as i would be locked up now.

Mate am gutted for you, must admitt though the cops are getting stricker now with us law abiding people than what they are with the real crim's

here's when you got done matey by the welsh

My friend just text me, she got pulled for her light tints in the front side windows this afternoon.

£30 fine on the spot?! And ripped out there and then. Can this happen? Im confused again

Yeah, Front windows and windscreen cannot be tinted to keep it in a nut shell...

£30 fine and ripping them off aint a bad result

so £30 and ripping them off, she has been let off lightly????

not lightly as such, just a standard issue, but the officer could have issued a lot worse if he wanted too