Yeah, they guy that lives around my area is a huge ass about tint. He's even starting to pull over people with factory tint on the back windows. I might set up an appointment with a guy in the TC area. It's called Sun Control of Minnesota. I've talked to the guy about getting Formula 1 pinnacle series installed with moleskins. he quoted me at $350 everything installed even pulling the tint I have on now. I was trying to find a place that will install Huper Optik, but the closest person that installs that brand is in Chicago, or Winnipeg Canada

 

In what city did you get the ticket in?
I have 20% with 5% eyebrow & sunroof. I also roll down my windows every time I see a cop, unless it is raining

 

In Cloquet.

 

You just need to move to the cities where the cops ahve better things to do than pull people over for tint

 

Ah yes. I've been wanting to for years but I doubt that'll ever happen.

BTW, Makana, I'll be in the cities most likely tomorrow with the GF, maybe you and Lisa want to meet up for dinner on our way home? You can text me later and let me know what you think.

 

Sun control did my tint I do not think I paid that much. What store is doing it for you?

 

I'm not sure exactly what store it was. The guys name is Todd, in his email signature the store is located 2604 Rice street in St. Paul. I'm not sure if the price is more expensive because of the brand of tint I asked for.

 

I have Huber Optik ceramic tint, and it's at 50%. I would like to go darker, but just don't want to deal with the hassle from the cops. I think it still looks good though!

 

Where did you get that installed! I've talked to Huper Optik and they said the closest installer is in Chicago, or Winnipeg. Since I couldn't find an installer, I've searched the next best thing Formula 1 pinnacle series.

 

That is the store were I got my tint. The tint I got was the Luminar I have been very happy with it.

 

I ordered it myself, and then had a local installer put it in for me!

 

I just have the 3M stuff, 50 in the front, 35 on the back 3.. I got the metallic one or something like that though so it looks almost like a mirror

 

don't forget that your window is also going to stop some of the light, so 50% tint that only allows 50% of the light through will measure at less than 50% once they mount it to glass.

 

Josh is correct. Well guys I will be out of the country until the 25th. I am going to Guam tomorrow for work. I will try to post from there if I can and let you know what the Acura scene is like out there.

 

Hey Jorge, you need to post up some pics of Guam since I am unlikely to ever go there now that there is a bun in the oven.

 

Has anyone given thought about the MNSC summer meet?

http://www.mnsportcompacts.net/forum/showthread.php?97247-MNSportCompacts-Summer-Meet-2010-July-31st

 

Soo who's all going to Back To The Fifties this weekend??

 

Well guys I am in Guam it is hot and there are alot of nice rides here. Hondas AcurasThe Island is quite small. I have been busy with work but tomorrow is Fathers day so I am relaxing. Hey Josh happy fathers day. I will take some photos. The whole time zone has me all screwed up

 

Hey Jorge, I took the throttle map assembly apart today to see why I couldn't change through my throttle maps and I determined that there are a couple of little plastic pins missing. If you remember the two little pins that were under the diff control rocker, it is two exactly like that that are missing.

So that I could adjust my throttle maps I moved the pins from the diff control to the throttle control and viola! It all works again. (with the exception of the diff controls now...)

So, when you get home we have to search the shop for those two small black plastic pins.

 

Just talked to Jorge, it's after noon on Sunday for him and he said that Guam is interesting.

Also, wanted to thank Jorge for the father's day wish, never thought I would be the recipient of father's day wishes.

 

Happy Father's Day Josh

And of course, Happy Father's Day to Jorge & all the other fathers on here!

 

^ +1

 

Why do you guys like Huper Optik? How is that tint the best?

 

I am attending the Minnesota Sport Compacts Summer Meet, depending on if I get my car mods installed by then I forgot about the Eurowerks 4 show that was on the 12th. Even though my car is not complete (I still have no bumper nor headlights), I still would have liked to have went as a spectator. I take it no one went to Back To The 50's...

 

I went to the Back to the 50’s show with my dad on Saturday. There was a lot of good looking cars and some clunkers too. One car I saw looked like a total POS and under the hood he had a Corvette LS1 engine so I guess don’t judge a book by its cover. But overall not many show cars but I have been spoiled by seeing some exceptional looking classic car at the Barrett Jackson car event in Las Vegas the last two years so while there was quantity at the Back to the 50’s show quality was lower. After the show we were going to my cousin’s house to help him with a computer Trojan but he was working till 3pm so dad and I stopped at the Burger Emporium for lunch and as I exit onto Tamarack a black TL comes up behind me turns out to be 05TLRIDER but alas I am driving my parents PT Cruiser so he didn’t see me. I was unable to remove the Trojan from my cousin’s computer I cant remember the name of it but it was something like odjjmb.dll in his system32 folder. While we let his virus checker do it’s job we played, I think, Left 4 Dead we kept playing a level where we were on the roof of the hospital waiting for the helicopter to save us must have tried 10-15 times and we just couldn’t beat it.

 

I live in Minneapolis. After 3 tint tickets in 4 months, the 20% is now off the CL after more than 8 years.

2002 - 2009 = 4 tint tickets
so far in 2010 = 3 tint tickets

I guess the locals are getting more up-tight too.

I still have 20% on the front windows of my FX35 though.

 

I got my 50% pinnacle series installed last Friday. I'll say this still looks pretty dark to me. Maybe it's cause of the black interior. I'll post up a pic later.

 

Holy lack of punctuation Batman!

 

There is also a MNHonda meet that same day. I was thinking of going to that one with the Tl.

 

Oh c'mon Josh cut a guy a break I was in a hurry and I tried which is more than some people on Acurazine. At least all of my first letters are capitalized, commas/apostrophes are used and all of my I's are uppercase. It could have looked like this.

i went to teh b2teh50s show man they was lotts of cars their this 1 had a cvete ingine & looked like shiznit now teh BJ in vegas had btr stuf.

Next time I will endeavor to meet your expectations in my posts Josh.

 

Hey man, I didn't get the title of Punctuation Nazi for nothing. I gotta represent! Yo!

 

I got pulled over for tinted windows today in St Paul!! The weird thing was that there was a cop car driving next to me, but he didn't pull me over.Then I cross Arcade st and there was a cop on a motorcycle; he saw me and he pulled me over. My mom's Camry have the same tint for over 8 years and no ticket!!! Maybe my TL was dropped with rims and I became a target?? LOL.. but got me thinking about re-doing my tint to 50%... but is that still legal? since our window come with a stock tint?

 

Dropped and wheels will make them look at you harder than a Camry, but also remember, 50% tint will measure at 46% or something like that once it's mounted, so it will still be illegal.

 

^Doesn't the law specify that there is a +/- 3 (or 4?) %? So technically you can have 47-46% (whichever it states)

Most cops wont give a rip though. I live in Eden Prairie, the most tint hating cops around. Got 2 tickets from the same guy for 34%. Swapped out my front windows to 50% and havn't been bothered once... the tint sucks though. I miss my 35%.


BTW, how is everyone? I havnt checked in in awhile. Ya'll need to get a meet together! I gotta get out of here! Been working too much. Also took my trip to Florida. The Keys were nice.

^TL in the pic too

 

It doesnt matter what you do. If the cop feels like pulling you over he will. You just proved it. You had one cop next to you and im sure he looked at your car and he did not care, another cop saw you and pulled you over.

The only way to get out of tickets like that is either have a doctor write you a prescription or something saying you have sensitive eyes, or dont have any tint at all. Even if you dont have tint, if you look like trouble to them you will get pulled over. It sucks but its how it works.

What helps me is when i see a cop i open my sunroof. It lets more light into the car and the cop can see me in the car. That is why they pull you over, they cant see you, or they just have nothing better to do.

 

^+1 This is effectively what making the seatbelt law a primary was really about. If they want to take a look at you, they pull you over, and when they get to your car they can say whatever they want as the reason.

I haven't ever seen any verbiage in the law that indicated a margin of error.

 

When I went to court the person i talked with about my ticket was talking about how the tint measurer had just been calibrated, so the reading they got was accurate.. Maybe they have some leniency if the thing hadn't been calibrated for a while?

But I doubt a cop would ever care/like to hear you say that, so that might be something you take up with a hearing officer (I think)

 

Yes, that makes you a Target. I am back from the Orient and I saw alot of nice rides including a beautiful Silvia.

 

Welcome back Jorge!! You got back just in time to drive your car in some torrential rain!

Yeah, if you ask when it was last calibrated, he's gonna tell you that he did it at the beginning of the shift.

 

Bleh, its in there. Don't feel like digging it up though.

Matt, when are we meeting up? Your front end look better? mine sure as hell doesnt LOL