Dark Tint Dilemma: How Do You Respond to the 'that’s illegal’ comments

[JJSnell]

"Oh it is? I bought the truck this way from previous owner, thanks for letting me know."

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[Theo Caldwell]

I now put the front license plate on. That way I can narrow it down to getting pulled over for only the tint - rather than for the plate.

 

[Eskram]

I now put the front license plate on.

What's a front plate? <grins with a FL smile>

 

[powerboatr]

I wish texas would drop our dumb front plate.
Seriously...night drive would be hard in our area..we are mostly 2 lane rural dark as a well roads.
We need windows that csn change tint level with a switch.
Real dark in sun. But lighter in the dark areas

 

[HammaMan]

We need windows that csn change tint level with a switch.
Real dark in sun. But lighter in the dark areas

It exists, just expensive. Also needs power -- some are dark when unpowered so risky

 

[Mosey]

Well best get a front plate. Tint is a stacker ticket when they stop you for something else depending both of your moods.

Glad I live in Michigan. Having a plate blocking air flow to the Intercooler is dumb.

 

[HammaMan]

Glad I live in Michigan. Having a plate blocking air flow to the Intercooler is dumb.

Most of the SE is single tag too -- Texas needs to get rid of the front tag requirement

 

[Chili]

It looks very nice but I would HATE to get pulled over for it and then end up with a DUI when I was driving perfectly fine.

Yikes. Won't get a DUI if you don't drink and drive.

Please tint.

 

[HammaMan]

Yikes. Won't get a DUI if you don't drink and drive.

You can get a DUI having drank nothing and blowing .000 on a PBT
It's opinion based. You can and will be accused of whatever the state wants to accuse you of.

 

[dochawk]

When I took my Driver's ED class in CA in the 90's, our instructor, who was a CHP officer, said he had a card with text in varying shades of grey that he could hold up to the window to detect the degree of tint and if it was illegal or not per CA law.

It might give him a guideline, and an educated guess, but that's not how CA law used to work.

As a very young lawyer in CA in '88 or '89, I actually read the statute after someone came into my office with one of those.

I had a Physics degree as well as my law degree, and still couldn't make sense of the statute (well, in any reasonable amount of time). So the notion of the cop in the field actually making sense of the percentage of refraction and such was nonxsense.

Lack of a tag for most places is a given stop

Before I left Las Vegas for my Ph.D., I'd helped out another attorney's secretary, and her husband invited me over to tint my Crown Victoria's windows.

I sent my wife, and she was scared of what he wanted to put on, and took the next lighter shade.

No problem; while there was a tint law here, the judges routinely through out the citations, so they weren't issued: "This is stupid. We live in the desert. My windows are tinted!"

But then we moved to Iowa for graduation school. When I picked up my mother in law from the airport when my twins were born, a cop actually turned around on the freeway to pull me over and cite me!

We need windows that csn change tint level with a switch.

It exists, just expensive. Also needs power -- some are dark when unpowered so risky

LCD film, ad a polarizing layer. Whether they're dark or light at rest depends on the angle of the polarizer.

I'd say that no-one would put the polarizing film in at any angle other than to be clear with no power, but the idiots that designed the stereo I had put in my '98 F-150 put its screen at 45 degrees! So I either have to flip yup my sunglasses, or really tilt my head to read it, including maps!

Yikes. Won't get a DUI if you don't drink and drive.

Speaking as an attorney . .. .

Bwah-ha-ha-ha!


uh, now.

And that's without brining up a consult a few years ago for someone who got pulled over in hole-in-the-wall Texas for out of state plates.

They saw the near-beer cans, and decided he was drunk (in fact, he couldn't drink beer due to hear medications).

They took him to a police station that he described as looking like it was left over from the 1880s.

He blew .00

Twice.

So they went to the side, and "recalibrated" the machine. He blew .10

A couple of days later, after being kept in a cell with 10 other men, with a pipe in the middle of the floor with a board across for a toilet, he described himself as being ready to plead to manslaughter to get out.

He was brought to the judge's chambers, with the county attorney, both spitting chew into their cups.

They told him that for a small amount they'd just forget the whole thing. But he was on the way home, out of cash.

"We'll trust you to send it in."

He then showed me his money order receipts. To the county attorney by name, not office.

As I pointed out that that made nos sense, he waived me off. He knew that when he paid, he just wanted it over.

The reason he was there was that they entered a conviction, which Texas reported to the Nevada DMV, which suspended his license!

But since he'd already served it, I had to tell him that there wasn't anything I could do.

And that's not the only one; just rest assured that not drinking doesn't save you from being pulled over for DUI.

 

[NotMyName]

This is 2024!! It’s not “illegal” tint, it’s “undocumented” tint!!!! Geesh!

 

[Grayson]

"I don't remember asking for your input or opinions on property you have no obligation to"

I have a medical waiver.

 

[FaaWrenchBndr]

Glad I live in Michigan. Having a plate blocking air flow to the Intercooler is dumb.

Get a mount that places it offset to one side

 

[22Platinum]

Get a mount that places it offset to one side

This one is nice.

 

[Chili]

You can get a DUI having drank nothing and blowing .000 on a PBT
It's opinion based. You can and will be accused of whatever the state wants to accuse you of.

It's driving under the influence, not intoxicated. I suppose if you've done drugs they can still ticket you.

I've done field sobriety tests and never had a ticket. They were just fishing and I blew a 0.0

I'm not sure how they would field test for being under the influence of a drug. Can't imagine a ticket would stick because cop "thought he was probably high".

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