daredevil0610

Hello Homies !!! I wanna tint my car this weekend. Can you give me some advice how dark can I install that would be DOT Approved. Thanks In advance and more power to Acurazine members and contributors!!!

KrayzieDxC

once you get to the tinting place. they will tell u wat percent is illegal and what percent is legal. soo you decided..different state have different percent on legal and illegal

copy252

<~~~ has rhode island plates..... all is illegal here.... but government cars can have them..... go figure....... fucking asshole RI

esco786

iTrader: (2)

i have 5% on my rear and rear passenger windshield(as dark as possible) and 25% on my front(which is illegal here) 35% would be legal at front...5% is beautiful but if u live in boonies with no light, forget using ur rearview, i will take pics one day, but it looks real bad cuz my windows are all scratched up and tints show them more

UnsanePyro

SUVs and crap can too, and limo's, and prettymuch anything other than regular cars, I have been looking around for a long time and still haven't found a way to pull it off

daemonicus

I just had 20% done on my car today and I love it. It's dark enough that in the daytime you cant see through one window and out the other very well but it's light enough that you can see my head kinda so cops might not stop me..heh..even though the state limit in WI is 50% F, 35% R...oops! :-p

esco786

iTrader: (2)

wow limits in toronto is 35% F, 5% R!

copy252

this is alittle long but its the law here in RI. tell me how stupid it is!!!!!


Rhode Island Window Tint Law - Chapter 31-23.3
§ 31-23.3-1 Definitions.

The following words and phrases for the purposes of this chapter only
shall have the following meanings:

(1) "Motor vehicle" means any vehicle, except those vehicles defined in
§ 31-1-8 as vehicles used in farm husbandry, which is
registered or required to be registered in the state.

(2) "Multipurpose passenger vehicle" means a motor vehicle with motive
power designed to carry 10 persons or fewer which is constructed either
on a truck chassis or with special features for occasional off-road
operation.

(3) "Reflectance" means the ratio of the amount of total light, expressed
in a percentage, which is reflected outward by the product or material
to the amount of total light falling on the product or material.

(4) "Sunscreening material" means a product or material, including film,
glazing, and perforated sunscreening, which, when applied to the windshield
or windows of a motor vehicle, reduces the effects of the sun with
respect to light reflectance or transmittance.

(5) "Transmittance" means the ratio of the amount of total light, expressed
in a percentage, which is allowed to pass through the product or material,
including glazing, to the amount of total light falling on the product
or material and the glazing.

(6) "Window" means any device designed for exterior viewing from a motor
vehicle, except the windshield, any roof-mounted viewing device, and any
viewing device having less than 150 square inches in area.

(7) "Windshield" means the front exterior viewing device of a motor vehicle.


§ 31-23.3-2 Windshields and windows obscured by nontransparent materials.
No person shall own and operate any motor vehicle upon any public
highway, road or street with nontransparent or sunscreen material,
window application, reflective film or nonreflective film used in any
way to cover or treat the front windshield, the side windows immediately
adjacent to the right and left of the operator's seat, the side windows
immediately to the rear of the operator's seat and the front passenger
seat and the rear window unless said vehicle meets one of the criteria
set forth in § 31-23.3-3.


§ 31-23.3-3 Rules and regulations authorized - Registrar for motor vehicles.

(a) The registrar for motor vehicles shall establish rules and regulations
to provide standards and tests to measure the percentage of reflective
and transmittance of light.

(b) Any person, firm, corporation, or other entity installing such a
sunscreen device on a motor vehicle shall provide and affix a label
to the front window not to exceed one and one-half (11/2) square inches
in size, which contains the installer's name and the percentage of light
transmittance. Facing the motor vehicle from the outside, the label
shall be placed in the lower left corner of the front window.

§ 31-23.3-4 Exemptions.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to:

(1) Motor vehicles manufactured with windshields and window glass
areas equipped in accordance with specifications of Title 49 Code
of Federal Regulations § 571.205 as authorized by 15 USC § 1407.

(2) Motor vehicles owned or leased by federal, state and local law
enforcement agencies.

(3) The use of nontransparent or sunscreen material or window application
on motor vehicles which has a total visible light transmittance of not
less than seventy percent (70%) measured perpendicular to the surface
of the glass on the windshield and side windows immediately adjacent to
the right and left of the operator's seat, the side windows immediately
to the rear of the operator's seat and the front passenger seat or on
the rear window if the vehicle is equipped with two (2) outside mirrors,
one on each side, adjusted so that the driver has a clear view of the
highway behind the vehicle.

(4) The use of any transparent material limited to the uppermost six
inches (6") along the top of the windshield, provided such strip does
not encroach upon the driver's direct forward viewing area as more
particularly described and defined in applicable Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standards.

(5) Motor vehicles not required to be registered in this state.

(6) The use of sunscreen material on windows behind the driver in
trucks, buses, trailers, mobile homes, campers, multipurpose vehicles,
charter buses, funeral service vehicles, or limousines provided that
said vehicle is equipped with two (2) outside mirrors, one on each side,
if said mirrors meet federal standards adjusted so the driver has a clear
view of the highway behind the vehicle.

(7) A motor vehicle registered in this state in the name of a person, or
the person's legal guardian, who has an affidavit signed by a physician
or an optometrist licensed to practice in this state that states that
the person has a physical condition that makes it necessary to equip the
motor vehicle with a sunscreening device which may exceed federal standards.
The registry of motor vehicles, upon application of the individual, which
shall include the affidavit, shall issue a sticker to be applied to the
driver's side window to identify this exemption.

(8) Any motor vehicle, registered and garaged within this state, whose
sole purpose is to provide executive security to persons within this
state. The owner(s) of the vehicle shall first seek and obtain written
permission from the local police chief where the vehicle is garaged and
registered before the waiver is granted.


§ 31-23.3-5 Penalties.
(a) Any person, firm, corporation, or other business entity that
installs any sunscreening material which is not in compliance with
the provisions of this chapter shall be fined not more than two hundred
fifty dollars ($250) for each such offense.

(b) Any person who owns a motor vehicle which has installed on it any
sunscreening device or material in violation of this chapter shall be
fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250).


§ 31-23.3-6 Vehicles with existing sunscreening materials.
The owners of all motor vehicles who have sunscreening material in
their motor vehicle in violation of the provisions of this chapter
shall have until January 1, 1994 to remove said material before they
may be found in violation of the provisions of this chapter; provided,
however, an owner of a motor vehicle shall not be required to remove
any sunscreening material if said material was initially installed by
the motor vehicle manufacturer and was purchased prior to
December 1, 1993.

UnsanePyro

Yeah, I've read it, I've read the exemptions, and prettymuch unless you have a doctor sign off on you having a medical condition, or your direct family, you can't have anything darker than 70% (IIRC)

copy252

assholes. i shoulda kept my CT plates man....

binky

Can u guys get red,orange, blue, green, yellow, purple tints in the U.S.?

KrayzieDxC

we can get mirrors tints but but still there illegal also theres picture tint too looks awsome but too bad there for on trucks or suvs

desired_speeds

I think I have 40% all around except the windsheild. I like it, I wish it was a bit darker though.

binky

In Japan as long as the windshield, driver and passenger windows arent tinted, we can go any %....even painted! We have all colored chromes, non chrome colored tints and the custom picture / drawing tints. If you design your own, they throw it in the computer and the tint cutting machine will do the rest....then the shop guys will slap em on ya windows. Pricy but very very nice!
Not tint but this one dude has a blonde chick, legs spread, bald-beaver shown, on his hood! He only covers the koochy during regular driving....at shows, its uncensored.