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Old Oct 20, 2006 | 12:00 AM
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Default tinting windows

how much does it cost to get the side windows tinted
and does anyone recommend a special darkness or w.e

please post ur pics
thanks
Old Oct 20, 2006 | 02:08 PM
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I just got mine done a couple of days ago.

Back window 5%
Side windows 25%
I made sure that they used a moleskin on the side windows because of all the problems that I've been hearing here.
Cost 260
Old Oct 20, 2006 | 02:12 PM
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Laws vary, call your local Police department and ask them what the laws are, then there will be no guessing. Where I live you can only have the top 4" on the drivers and passengers windows tinted, no matter how light or dark it is. I got a fix it ticket for having my side ones tinted, they were only at 40%, cant remember exactly but they were light enough you could see in at night. I paid the fine and left it, got stopped by a state trooper - he wasnt so nice, he gave me a Obstruction of view and/or control ticket which is 3 points [:@].
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Old Oct 20, 2006 | 02:34 PM
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i think if I were you, that stop would have been on "Wildest Police Videos"

-"Then the driver looses his cool and trys to kick the officer in the head"
-"so then the officer tazers the man 3x to prevent the attack and 8x more just for the hell of it..."

i also plan on tinting..i think ill just go light and 25% all round and somthing less than 40% on front windows, so no tickets.

I think tints are like spoilers...light tints are suttle enough to get job done...dark as hell is like a 10' rector-set rice wing.

my sister's cougar is a Cali car, so it was tinted dark from factory[:@]
Old Oct 20, 2006 | 02:42 PM
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Believe me tommy it crossed my mind, he actually stopped me for my air freshener, which he gave me ANOTHER obstruction ticket for, the air freshener was maybe 2.5" in diameter. He also, asked me to step out of the vehicle handcuffed my to the front of his cruiser while he searched my car. He found a half full 5th of Jack daniels (that was behind my speaker box so by the taillights) he sets the thing on the roof of my car, making it look like I was drinkin and driving, no ticket for that thankfully even though he threatend to give me an open intox ticket for it, gave me a loud exhaust ticket, there was some other stuff too, sometimes I REALLY hate cops! [:@]
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Old Oct 20, 2006 | 02:45 PM
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im guna tint too but what is a good price to pay?
Old Oct 20, 2006 | 02:56 PM
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im really sorry to hear that bro, dont let one ******* ruin the cred of the other good ones.

hand-cuffed and the hood...metal on paint, the best combo? I would have made some scartchs on that big, heavy, family-sedan they drive around in...maybe not, im behind a computer, not there with my nerves going crazy like you must have been.

what do you think is a resonable setup...i want it dark enough to keep car cool, but not soo dark it attracks 5-0.
you think like less than 40% all around is good? (by less than i mean 40+)

and dark enough so the chics cant see my fugly *** and scare them away...[&o]
Old Oct 20, 2006 | 03:09 PM
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LOL! Check your local laws, they differ state to state and county to county, sometimes they even have city ordinances so definitly check. I think 20/25% on the back and 1/4 windows then something like 40-45% on the sides might be ok.

And he handcuffed me to the ram bar thing [:@], the whole time I was cuffed, I was thinkin what if some a-hole rearends this POS cruiser, Id be FUKT! It seems like reckless endangerment to me. I guess I must be a pretty intimidating guy, thats happend to me twice so far[:@].
As for being nervous, unless I got um "trees" Im not worried, Ive been pulled over SOOO many times it doesnt scare me anymore. I learned the proper way to deal with cops. Theyre on power trips, let them trip, be respectful, call them sir, follow their instructions, so on and so forth (talked my way out a DUI that way).
But the aforementioned incident I didnt keep my cool, as he was approaching Istuck my head out the window and asked em if there was a problem , bad idea. LOL!
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Old Oct 20, 2006 | 04:49 PM
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if you want a really dark tint and the legal limits wont let your, try going to an eye doctor place liek vision world, my friend went in and just asked for a prescription for window tint and they gave him a card saying that hes got "solar phobia" or somehtinl ike that, hes been pulled oevr for it and the cops let him off, i'd check it out
Old Oct 20, 2006 | 05:31 PM
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ORIGINAL: STANGON22s

if you want a really dark tint and the legal limits wont let your, try going to an eye doctor place liek vision world, my friend went in and just asked for a prescription for window tint and they gave him a card saying that hes got "solar phobia" or somehtinl ike that, hes been pulled oevr for it and the cops let him off, i'd check it out
lol

i think im gonna do

5 percent rear

25 side



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