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Window Tinting Laws Wed, 21 August 2002 12:45 Go to next message
Alright the tax cheque is back and its time to get the tinting done

Can someone explain these laws and how they classify the darkness??

Also ive heard if they were pre 1994 anything goes? is this true

Where is the best place to get pitch black windows at a good price

Oohsik whered you get yours done again?
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Wed, 21 August 2002 12:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Hmm...there seems to be alot of different ideas on what date this law was established about window tinting.

I've heard 90 and i've also heard 92....now i've heard 94. So the date is blurry but the yes it is tru that cars made b4 a certain date have no limit on tinting cause the law came out on
199X for the limit on tinting.

What model is your car ??
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Wed, 21 August 2002 12:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
1990

what is legal darkness??
somthing like 20 series ( i have no idea what i am talking about, just heard this mentioned before)
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Wed, 21 August 2002 12:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Actually it was 90 and 92 i heard not 92 and 94

the tinting is done in percentages i think ??

But if your car was made b4 the law who cares whats legal or not. If a cop hassled u just say i bought the car like that so it must have been done b4 the law.

But find out when the law was made first obviously.

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Re: Window Tinting Laws Wed, 21 August 2002 13:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
legally 70% of light must be able to get through.

my old man just had his car done and we specified to the tint professor that we want it at the legal limit, but it's not dark enough. the tint dude put extra on the rear window too, and that's still not dark enough either.

my advice is to ask around, and find someone who'll do a bit of extra tint, and slip him $50 on top of normal price Wink
      
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Wed, 21 August 2002 13:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
ok thanks for the help fellas
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Wed, 21 August 2002 15:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Here in California only the driver and passenger side windows and windshield(of course) can't be tinted. You are able to tint all other windows as dark as you want.
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Wed, 21 August 2002 23:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
i think its similar here, but u can tint them to a certin level

and the others can be pitch black providing u have mirrors

not sure about the back but
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Thu, 22 August 2002 01:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
All is revealed on the RTA website:

http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/registration/vsi03.pdf
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Thu, 22 August 2002 01:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
yeah thanks soarer

the official date was the first of august 1994
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Thu, 22 August 2002 04:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
hi there.

i had my old mx73cressida done in 20% tint, but they would not warrant the tint, and they would not put a little sticker on the window.



so basically they will do dark tint (they did a good job), but after that they dont want to know you...for obivious reasons.




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Re: Window Tinting Laws Thu, 22 August 2002 05:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
35% is the lowest you can go legally... Razz
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Thu, 22 August 2002 09:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
what about limo tinting. what is the deal with that.
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Thu, 22 August 2002 09:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
turbokid wrote on Thu, 22 August 2002 7:24 PM

what about limo tinting. what is the deal with that.


If u got money u can do whatever u want for starters.

And 2ndly the whole point of setting these rules is for driver visibility.....the driver doesnt need to see through those back windows where the passengers are

Its the same as a bus
theres not limit for tinting on the windows behind the driver
just for his

Its all on Soarers link above Rolling Eyes

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Re: Window Tinting Laws Thu, 22 August 2002 09:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
So leagally, does this mean seeing as I own a 1990 Corolla, can I get 0%, as in no light at all, and not get it dated??? So i can say to a cop that it was there when i bought the car so get f*#@ed??? Not literally but same meaning... Can he tell me to pull it off or issue a defect???
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Thu, 22 August 2002 09:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
correct ben
but not your front windshield
your front windshield has to be 75 % minimum no matter what age your car is

but everything else is fine i think

but it wouldnt be a good idea to get 0%
as it would piss u off on a cloudy early morning if your hungover or something

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Re: Window Tinting Laws Thu, 22 August 2002 10:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
my old man is friends with a tinter who does my parents cars darker than legal, i dont know how dark but it looks mad during the day but i HATE Driving my mums car at night its a real pain in the ass. you cannot see anything thru the tints, i wind down the front windows so i can see left and right at intersections, roundabouts etc...
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Thu, 22 August 2002 12:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
I recently had my windows tinted, 35% is the legal limit in Canberra but they give you 5 points leeway. The guy also told me that it was the same nation wide. You can go darker if you want but you prolly wont get warranty on it. And tinting the windshield is illegal.

[Updated on: Thu, 22 August 2002 12:07]

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Re: Window Tinting Laws Thu, 22 August 2002 13:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
I'm not going to tint the front windscreen at all... Does it really get that dark at night??? Like that you cannot see out the windows at all??
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Fri, 23 August 2002 06:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
when i drive my mums car, all i can see thru the tints at night is headlights, street lights, etc...
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Fri, 23 August 2002 08:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
ooh 51k got his at auburn ill probably go there aswell, 15% with waranty and all they even put a sticker on the back windscreen. It looks good to me and from the inside u can still see quite well. I guess theres lots of different tinting film and they all have different properties so just look around so u find something that ud be happy with.
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Fri, 23 August 2002 09:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
you know how you can get glasses wich go tinted when in the sunlight? well is it possible to get anything like that for your car? as that way u will still have good visability at night and in low light conditions but keep your car cool in summer and protect your eyes in those bright conditions
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Fri, 23 August 2002 12:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Something to remember with tint percentages if they get stricter on policing tints is that factory glass is already tinted, particularly on later models. Adding what may be 35% tint will actually let less light through when fitted.

I removed all the tinting from my seca a few weeks ago. It was all bubbled on a couple of windows when I bought the car and looked crap. Much better now... until summer Razz
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Fri, 23 August 2002 14:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Cash buys anything brother. I've got 5%.
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Sat, 24 August 2002 02:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
I might have a look at some cars with different percentages of tinting done to see what I like the look of... Either that or i might just settle for 10 - 15%... Is it the same price though as legal stuff???
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Sat, 24 August 2002 08:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
For any of the SA guy's. IT's very different here. Much tighter laws than any other state. I don't know if TransportSA has anything on the web (never have any info on the web lazy ba%^tard's) So give them a call. Aparently even the tinting place's don't know the legal tinting levels. Stupid storey from the local Messenger.

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Re: Window Tinting Laws Sun, 25 August 2002 11:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Singapore has similar laws to California actually with just the font driver, front pass, and windshield not being able to be tinted at all, and for the rest anything goes.. it's actually quite funny to look at because the trend over there is a reflective silver tint and looks very.. you know..
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Sun, 25 August 2002 16:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Yeh, cops have it made here in SA, was out driving with the windows down, was pulled over at a booze bus. They couldn't defect me for anything... then he asked me to wind my front windows up, well he got me for 38% tint and said that the legal limit in sa is 70% or above.... What makes this worse is that it was a major defect, i had to book a full inspection and had to pull the tint off Sad i think 35% is the limit on the rest of the windows.

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Re: Window Tinting Laws Mon, 26 August 2002 02:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Thats gotta suck...
can you be defected for wheels that don't meet the dimentions of the ones on the tyre placard??? Like, if you have 14's stock and you fit 15's??? Can you be defected and fined???
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Mon, 26 August 2002 03:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
You can be defected for not having a tyre placard.. kinda hard on an old '77 car.
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Mon, 26 August 2002 04:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
i've heard 2 legalities about wheel size: 1. it can be 1" larger then the biggest standard wheel size bought out on that model of car or 2. 2" bigger then what it says on the placard.

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Re: Window Tinting Laws Mon, 26 August 2002 10:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
I heard 1.5" wider actually
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Mon, 26 August 2002 10:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
I don't think the width of the wheel is the prob, but the effect it has on widening the track. Max increase 1 inch.
Insurance companies seem to just go on width though.
Plus 1 (1 inch increase diameter) is still legal, afaik.
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Re: Window Tinting Laws Mon, 26 August 2002 11:55 Go to previous message
It all depends on the car.

Once again, all is revealed on the RTA website for NSW:
http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/registration/vsi09.pdf
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