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What tint are y’all getting away with?

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Bc you are going with the 5% brow i would go with 50%. The brow takes your eyes off the fact the windshield is tinted. I did this previously with 35% windshield and had good luck. Make sure the entire windshield is tinted first, then the brow is on top otherwise you will have an air line where the tints meet and overtime will lift.

Personally run 50% windshield, 15% front doors, and 5% over the rear 3. No trouble from cops, state inspection has been iffy some years. Windshield is hardly noticeable to the untrained eye - only on overcast days can you really tell its tinted. Sunny days you can see the front passengers from the outside.

Im in DFW.
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Late response. My windshield is tinted [80%]. My shop gave me this static cling type materical and thats what my registration and toll tag are on. When time to replace just pull off and get a new one and it does risk damaging tint.

Windshield 80 everything else 5 including sun roof.
 
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Just got tinted! Thanks for all the info!
Went with 70% shield, 35% over 35% fronts, 20% over rears, 20% back glass, 5% brow! Full ceramic, will update the benefits of the ceramic once I live with it for a bit. Pics will come this weekend!
 

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I'd love to go darker for the privacy and heat reflection but am just worried about inspection. What are people doing to get around that?
 

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Gangster package here... 5% all around and 50% windshield
 

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Here is mine with 5% sides and 50% windshield. I live in Oklahoma so no annual inspections and even though we have tint laws, maybe 75% of the driving population has illegal tint (including several cop cars I have seen) and they don't even care. Nothingburger. To be fair, if I didn't have 360 cam I wouldn't have it this dark. It was a pain in my old truck that didn't have cameras (at night, when parking.)

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Here is mine with 5% sides and 50% windshield. I live in Oklahoma so no annual inspections and even though we have tint laws, maybe 75% of the driving population has illegal tint (including several cop cars I have seen) and they don't even care. Nothingburger. To be fair, if I didn't have 360 cam I wouldn't have it this dark. It was a pain in my old truck that didn't have cameras (at night, when parking.)

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Truck looks GREAT! Would be nice to not have the annual inspection here in TX.
 

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I've run 50% windshields for over 2 decades now and nobody's the wiser. My eyes are pretty light sensitive at night to headlight glare and it makes a world of difference. Of course the summer time temps are dropped considerably as is the AC load. Run 20% fronts to match factory rear. A quality windshield tint job of 50% + is pretty difficult to detect and there's no way to slip a meter over it. If it's a poor job and spotted you can just say it's a non-blocking safety film. You had a rock hit your windshield one night and got some glass fragments in your eye and it's not something you're looking to repeat. It was only $100 and is cheap insurance. Sell it anymore and it sounds like a lie ;)
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