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Old 09-20-2008, 12:42 AM
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5% tint all around.

Just got it done yesterday. WOOT!!

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So does a lower % mean darker tint?
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LOL. G'luck with it. I admire your courage. I'm just curious to see if you even make it a month before you get pulled over. (I certainly wish you the best.)

Yeah. 50% is the typical "light". ~35% is the medium, and 20% is dark. And then we have Exhibit A, 5%.
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Originally Posted by marshall28
So does a lower % mean darker tint?
Yes sir.

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LOL. G'luck with it. I admire your courage. I'm just curious to see if you even make it a month before you get pulled over. (I certainly wish you the best.)

Yeah. 50% is the typical "light". ~35% is the medium, and 20% is dark. And then we have Exhibit A, 5%.
Ah, see that's where my legit doctor's note comes in. It's already saved me once in court and a bunch of times when I've been pulled over for tint (I had 20% before this). I keep it in my glove compartment along with the CA vehicle code passage pertaining to window tint.
Old 09-20-2008, 04:54 AM
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dr's note!

can i have the name and number of your doctor? think my insurance will cover that visit (jealous!)?
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no seriously, can i get his info?
Old 09-20-2008, 10:06 AM
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That is really dark. Take a shot for us outside at night.
Old 09-20-2008, 10:23 AM
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Looks good, I also have 5% tints all around, heres a picture outside
Old 09-20-2008, 11:21 AM
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Cool Wow!!

LOVE that look! I too have a doctor slip in the car. But I only went to 35%. My wife suffers from SADD. So it was a compromise. But 5% WOW!! LOOK GREAT!

I LOVE THAT LOOK!!! It's just to bad that the DL does not have a check box for this! So the cop would see it when he/she was running our plates! Now that would be great! It would stop the "being pulled over" which is ALWAYS at the WORST time!
LOOK GREAT!!
Old 09-20-2008, 12:43 PM
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Must suck at night...looks good though!
Old 09-20-2008, 03:19 PM
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Can you even see out the windows at night?
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Originally Posted by dechlin
Can you even see out the windows at night?
Barely... but I had 20% before this so as retarded as it may sound, I've trained myself to be able to drive at night with dark tints on.
Old 09-20-2008, 05:21 PM
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Good luck seeing people. I had 5% on my old cars, and it was a bia!!!! but looks good. OUTDOOR PICS!!!!!!! Almost all the pics you show are in the garage, WTF!!!
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Good luck seeing people. I had 5% on my old cars, and it was a bia!!!! but looks good. OUTDOOR PICS!!!!!!! Almost all the pics you show are in the garage, WTF!!!
new blackberry FTW!!

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nice tints! 5% looks nice!
Old 09-20-2008, 08:10 PM
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Hey I live in Cali too and I also have a doctors note, according to the CHP tho, a doctor's note is no longer valid for window tint, doctor's note is only good for those removable shades, with the suction cups that sometimes people use, I know its LAME!!! But that's what the CHP told me, I understand its all based on the cop that pulls you over though, some cops will let you slide with the note. I still keep the note in my car anyway.
Old 09-21-2008, 02:18 AM
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Originally Posted by carlos9827
Hey I live in Cali too and I also have a doctors note, according to the CHP tho, a doctor's note is no longer valid for window tint, doctor's note is only good for those removable shades, with the suction cups that sometimes people use, I know its LAME!!! But that's what the CHP told me, I understand its all based on the cop that pulls you over though, some cops will let you slide with the note. I still keep the note in my car anyway.
that's actually true...but through my experience, most cops are idiots (no offense to you cops that aren't idiots) and as long as I act like I know exactly what I'm talking about they'll let me go with no ticket. I'm dreading the day I run into the cop that get's butt-hurt about it.
Old 09-21-2008, 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by ifirahse
new blackberry FTW!!

that looks awesome.......and ya i have a note from the doc tooo.....what you think........
with windshield at 35%


20%s on the sides
Old 09-21-2008, 09:16 PM
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^ dude i wanna tint my windshield so bad but the wise person in my teenage mind tells me that anything that decreases visibility (even a little bit) through my windshield at night is a NO NO.
Old 09-22-2008, 12:16 AM
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such a brave soul! looks really good and tempting! 30% is the limit for me
Old 09-22-2008, 12:29 AM
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DAMN thats dark haha... just wait til you blackout those headlights...
Old 09-22-2008, 12:45 AM
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Originally Posted by ifirahse
Just got it done yesterday. WOOT!!

Dayam, nice black car... PEACE!
Old 09-22-2008, 03:28 AM
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I have 5% too, haha every time I turn I always have to roll down the windows so I could see haha
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Old 09-22-2008, 12:20 PM
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DO IT!! get a doctors note any doctor at a lenscrafters can do it.......
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Hehe it finally happened. I got pulled over today.

Cop told me he couldn't even see me and that's when I pulled out the doctor's note. He looked at it for a second, then asked me what I "suffer" from. I explained everything to him and he let me go...he was actually really cool about it.

pwned.
Old 09-22-2008, 05:22 PM
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I have 20% on my NDP with tan interior. I should have gotten black on black.
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Originally Posted by ifirahse
Hehe it finally happened. I got pulled over today.

Cop told me he couldn't even see me and that's when I pulled out the doctor's note. He looked at it for a second, then asked me what I "suffer" from. I explained everything to him and he let me go...he was actually really cool about it.

pwned.
see.....lol it always works........just be cool with the officer........
Old 09-22-2008, 10:52 PM
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had 5% and 35% windshield visibility was perfect ask any1 from TSV in here....

i would do it again if i feel like it but i took it off and left just the rear
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nice tint!
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ahhh. hope you don't get any tickets. haha. i got two for mine on my last tl. had 15% all around and 5% for the back window
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lol my bad. posted before reading about you getting pulled over. but what the doctor's note need to say? haha. i miss my tint
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