If it was only a fine and no insurance premium increase I'd get tint as well but my agent repeatedly has told me that it would raise the premium, a tint ticket is categorized that way with Allstate.

 

Yeah I think it falls under equipment. Its $80.

 

Just roll your windows down when you see a cop. I roll 5% tint front and back with no tint tickets.

 

i am in Chicago pulled over once by Chicago cop said you know son I can give u a ticket for $250. i have special police plates so he let me go. Thanks lol

 

Got pulled over and ticketed once in a 2000 Accord with real light tints (can't remember the numbers) by the CHP down near the Colorado river..
Called my neighbor (he's in law enforcement) over to the house to see if he would sign off the ticket for me...he came over, looked at my cars and asked where the car was that had the tint on it!! lol
He couldn't believe some azzwipe ozzifer would write it up

 

15%, and I have gotten 2 tickets in the last 6 months.

 

20% all around including windshield and no tickets as of yet

 

Yeah, but sometimes these cops come out of nowhere so by that time it's already too late.

 

i got pulled over twice over memorial weekend. first cop was cool gave just a warning, cop number two gave me a ticket and a posession ticket . he also said my black side markers are illegal here. haven't fixed it yet... 5% all around windshield 20%.

knock on wood.

 

35% all around. Pulled once for it in 4 years and the cop put the meter up to it and it said 17%. I thought it was when he said it to me but I saw it with my own eyes

 

I've had my windows tinted for over a year now and never got stopped for having my windows tinted! However, I have gotten a ticket for my windows about 6 months ago after being stopped for speeding. The trooper gave me a warning for speeding and a ticket for the windows.

 

Actually more people are tinting their windows these days to avoid cell phone tickets.

 

get tint on TL for cellphone usage is just idiotic...... i hate dumb asses on the road blocking traffic flow (driving extremely slow on fast lane) or cutting ppl off taling on their cellphone....... dame it!!!! use the handsfree feature, it came with all TL standard!!!!! and get a bluetooth phone!!!!! it so easy, even the cavemen can do it

 

I probably got pulled over 4-5 times for my tint over 3 years and paid about $300 in fines. I finally just got so sick of the heartburn when I saw a cop and having to roll my windows down (fronts) that I said f- it and ripped the tint off.

 

Definately depends on where you live. I have never gotten a ticket for tint in my 12 years of driving. Currently I drive my wifes car, which has 20% all around, and my TL which has 35% on the 4 doors and 5% on the rear windshield. I am really happy with my current tint setup.

 

Been about a year now, and I have been issued one $50 ticket (out of town). I drive by at least 10 cops a day in this small town with my windows up, and they don't seem to care. I also have 5% tints...

 

Wish mine were only $50 each, they have been $130-150 each time.

 

wow i have 20% also and i never got pulled over yet and i live in california.

 

For the most part, getting pulled over for tint is just bad luck. Of course, there are some areas that are more strict about it. I got pulled over, for tint only, a few months ago and was given a fix-it ticket (20% tint). Second time I've been pulled over for tint in about 13 years. There's no ryhme or reason. I had been pulled over before for speeding (only given a warning) once during the day and once at night when I had the 20 on and it was never mentioned. Then one day I'm pulling into my neighborhood and get pulled over strictly for the tint.

It's a huge hassle having to get the tint removed and reinstalled, but it's the risk you take. What really pissed me off though was when I went to the police station to get the ticket signed the officer at the desk didn't even look at the car. Just asked if I took it off and signed.......

After having to deal with that I went with 35% this time. Wish I had it 20% still but I don't feel like having to deal with it again. Technically though, if metered, the 35% tint would still read illegal. Hopefully I don't run into an officer that is that picky.

 

You guys so lucky I got 7 tint tickets in a span of 7 months.

I need to stop going out after midnight.

 

New York seems to be pretty strict, since most of this thread is NY people, hehe. I got two tickets in the same day (not tint related) just passing through NY to TX.

 

I got three tint tickets in the span of 5 days.

 

i understand how u feel, i live in nyc and i got pulled over once by a cop and he gave me two tint tickets for each front window, and there 20% and i get tint tickets every other week but now i just removed the tints because i got tired of getting pulled over and im driving with a restricted license so i dont wanna cause attention..in nyc theres cops all over, u dont no whose a cop or not