I had a 1991 Saturn SC that I put 20% tint on. I got ONE ticket in three
years (it actually happened at a remote intersection and was the ONLY reason
the state trooper pulled me over- PRICK!!). He put the dreaded meter on the
window and it registered 11%!!! this is because the factory tint added about
10% to what I had on there. So basically I had almost limousine tint all
the way around :)
-Eric
Black '99 Dakota Sport
4x4 Club Cab
5.2L 318 Automatic
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Steiger [mailto:stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 10:21 PM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: Not My Day (Long)
At 09:52 PM 5/25/99 , you wrote:
>Steven,
>You have met the man. Rip it off, show and get the ticket taken care of.
You
>might want to have the tint a little less next time or crack the windows
when
>driving. Sounds like he was being a bit obtuse in judgement. it is the
law,
>but a lowered truck does attract attention. Yours also sounds fast. Best
of
>luck.
>Jim
>
I live in NY, and there is a similar law. I have a 20% tint on my side
windows, and it isn't unsafe at all. In fact, in bright sunshine
(especially during the winter) I feel my truck is a lot safer due to the
reduced glare. It also helps when driving at night and you're in front of
some idiot with misaligned headlights. The light used to bounce right off
the side mirrors and into my face, but now its diffused somewhat by the
side tint.
So anyway, there is a law, but I think its stupid, and I'm not hurting
anybody so I ignore it. :-) I did get a ticket once, which was actually
partially my fault... I was driving through one of those
DWI/inspection/registration roadblocks, and I left my windows up. (My
stuff was in order so I figured the guy would just wave me though, and I
didn't even think about the tint on the windows. They pulled me over and
stuck some stupid light meter on my window which showed that the tint was
slightly illegal. (I had to resist "accidentally" hitting the "down"
switch and thus giving that stupid gizmo a one way ticket to the pavement.)
;-) They gave me a $75 ticket, which paid and promptly forgot about. The
tint is still there, and its going to remain there; I don't care how many
phony revenue generating tickets I have to pay.
I have thought about drilling a hole through the fuse for the power
windows and putting a piece of string or something through there so if I
get pulled over, I can lower both windows and yank the fuse out thus
regrettably being unable to roll them back up for inspection, but I don't
know if that would work or not. :-) I guess a better way would be to hide
a switch somewhere so that even with the fuse in place, the windows won't
operate...
-Jon-
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