New York Pfft....

[kicker187]

this is my third one this year,i love my tint but it attracts cops like a fat kid to cake
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cop told me that in new york any window that rolls down can't be tinted i thought it was only the front doors but the back doors are illegal here 2
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[gtdado4]

How much do you have to pay?
Car looks good with it, so I can see how you want to keep it.

[Old Guy]

Seems pretty simple to me.....take it off.

My daughter got a $100.00 ticket for hers. Normally they'll give a warning, as they did with me, but cops don't seem to have much mercy on kids.

I had mine changed to the legal limit and we just scraped hers off.

[kicker187]

the ticket is $50 dollars here but they don't give u a warning they give you a violation correction form and if u correct the violation they drop the ticket, but the tint was $200 and if i take it off all the doors it will look stupid

[kicker187]

my tint is supposed 2 be 20% also the tinter ripped me off :)

[lowrider2962]

that just flat out sux a$$. sry to hear this man cuz that car is sexy

[gtdado4]

so, so far, your tint has cost you $350? How many times can you get a ticket before something else happens? It's not worth it to me, but to each his own.

[ramairgt1]

Town cop or troopers?

[kicker187]

Originally posted by ramairgt1
Town cop or troopers?

trooper first 2 times this one was from a town cop. I don't think he knew what he was talking about because i thought, and the trooper that pulled me over before said that just the front window, drivers, and passenger window couldn't be tinted.

[ManktheTank19]

I got pulled over a few times for the tint on my back windows. The worse thing about it is that mini vans, suv's and trucks can have tint on their back windows but cars can't

Conclusion: Lame law

[kicker187]

Originally posted by ManktheTank19
I got pulled over a few times for the tint on my back windows. The worse thing about it is that mini vans, suv's and trucks can have tint on their back windows but cars can't

Conclusion: Lame law

really here near Syracuse NY, the cop i just got a ticket from said the back and small windows in the back could as dark as u want.

[ManktheTank19]

Not in Amherst and other towns near me

[kicker187]

wow worse than mine but i'm not takin any off so its illegal anywhere :)

[bballr4567]

http://www.tintcenter.com/laws/NY/


Yup 23% is way darker then the legal limit. Most of the time you can get away with it if your state is a 30 or 35.

[Old Guy]

Originally posted by gtdado4
so, so far, your tint has cost you $350? How many times can you get a ticket before something else happens? It's not worth it to me, but to each his own.

I agree........must be nice to have money to throw away. If you want to donate 50 bucks to me every couple of months my paypal address is donate@sucker.com. :D

[rbharris1984]

I had 5% on my 2005 mustang and a state trooper got me when I lived in MD. I had to get it removed, get the car reinspected, and than re-register it.

[03graystone]

i live in Philly, no problems here :) i have 25 on side front windows, and 15% on the back doors and rear window. i want it darker now though.

[Big Joe]

you should change the title to "Upstate New York pfffffttttt" Cops are too busy for that down here :lol: Also, I'm a fat kid and I don't really like cake so I take offense to you statement :lol:

[PontiacGT201]

what gets me about this is the time 10:56pm. they stopped you during the night. any window looks dark. lol or were you in a well lighted area?

[kicker187]

i got pulled over just for the tint at night the first time, and this one i had a head light out that i didnt know about an when he came up to the car he seen the tint.

funny thing about the time is that he pulled me over in the parking lot of my work and made me late lol

[matts]

i honestly figured that NYC cops would be too busy to bust chops for window tint of all things.

i have 3 vehicles...and none of them have legal tint.

[Bouchie11982]

mine cost me $250 and it was 29%

[kicker187]

Originally posted by Bouchie11982
mine cost me $250 and it was 29%

mine was suppose to be $270 but i know the owner of the shop

[JBlack16]

wow, that sucks, loooks like ny has some lame laws on tint. Sorry to hear that. Thats got to be the lamest laws i have seen. BTW off topic, but ManktheTank19 has that picutre of ur avatar always been like that with the eyes in the windshield like the movie cars?

[Big Joe]

Originally posted by matts
i honestly figured that NYC cops would be too busy to bust chops for window tint of all things.

They are. He lives upstate. See my last post in this thread.

[TA^Guy]

Originally posted by kicker187
trooper first 2 times this one was from a town cop. I don't think he knew what he was talking about because i thought, and the trooper that pulled me over before said that just the front window, drivers, and passenger window couldn't be tinted.
It's IS just the front drivers and passenger windows. He needs to look up the section code and read the discription for himself. If that were the case it would be illegal for automanufactures to sell SUVs with rear tinted glass in NYS.

Our GA had 20% all the way around, well until I got stopped twice in one week for it. That sunday I peeled off the drivers and passenger tint.

[kicker187]

Originally posted by bballr4567
http://www.tintcenter.com/laws/NY/


Yup 23% is way darker then the legal limit. Most of the time you can get away with it if your state is a 30 or 35.

^this post says it the back windows 2

[bballr4567]

Yea then Im sure thats the law.

[TA^Guy]

Originally posted by kicker187
^this post says it the back windows 2
That is incorrect. Go search the code that says that, look it up I'm positive you will find no code that states the rear windows can not be tinted.

Due to her job my wife has a database at her work of laws that is updated as laws are changed. She once posted the exact code and discription of the law regaurding window tint in NYS. Try a search by it, her screen name is Y2KGAGT. I looked for it but it may have been deleted, not sure when it was posted. Also my father inlaw is in the Police department for 20 years now IIRC and has also quoted us the exact discription of the law my wife had found.

That website is wrong.
Originally posted by bballr4567
Yea then Im sure thats the law.
Why cause it's posted on a website, must be the truth then.

[bballr4567]

Well Ive checked three different sites and they have all said that. Even the NY state site.

if you have a 1992 or later model year passenger car or station wagon, the side windows adjacent to AND behind the operators seat must have a light transmittance of SEVENTY PERCENT or greater. If you own a vehicle classified by the EPA as a truck or light truck ONLY the area BEHIND the operators seat may be tinted with a tint less than seventy percent. These types of vehicles include but are not limited to: SUVs, Mini Vans, Full size vans and Pick up trucks.

[XoticGA]

You guys have it rough.. We can have any percent on the back windows.. and nothing on the front..

But they're very leniant.. *knock on wood* I have 5% on the bad and 35% on the front..

[TA^Guy]

Originally posted by bballr4567
Well Ive checked three different sites and they have all said that. Even the NY state site.

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Well as soon as my wife has time she'll look up the actual law from the database. I didn't realize she could log into it from home but she says she can. She works in government affairs so this is what she does every day working with lobbiest, legislation, and the state senate so her information has got to be up to date and correct.

[bballr4567]

Ahhh no hard feelings John. I know how bad NY state tint laws are as my best bud is from there but bought a TBSS here in TN had it registered in NY and had tint put on it here. Went up to NY for leave and got a tint ticket. It was rather funny.

[Big Joe]

We can have any amount of the back windows. I myself have 20% all around. Got the car tinted not long after I bought it. I have peen pulled over many times for many different reasons, no one has ever said jack about my tint.

[TA^Guy]

Originally posted by bballr4567
Ahhh no hard feelings John. I know how bad NY state tint laws are as my best bud is from there but bought a TBSS here in TN had it registered in NY and had tint put on it here. Went up to NY for leave and got a tint ticket. It was rather funny.
Nah no hard feelings here either. Shoot if I'm wrong I'm wrong. My wife is having issues finding what she had last time, all she can find is about SUVs. But notice the website that was posted about tint laws, the law shown was enacted in 1991, 16 years ago. Alot in the industry has changed since then.

I know even after removing tint from our front two windows on the GA nearly every time I was stopped they asked me to roll up the drivers side window. Never a word about the rears.

And both our Exploder and my S10 have factory tinted glass on rear side windows. No way to remove it other than replacing the glass. So if it's illegal GM and Ford would have to flip the bill for everyone ticket for tinted rear glass on all vehicles sold in the state.

[bballr4567]

Yea I think that some states take tint laws way way way too serious.

The newest info I found was also from the early 90's. Heck you might try and make a push in NY to get some updated laws.

['96GAGT]

IMO it doesn't look too dark, really it doesn't but.. if you have to pay it make sure you leave something nice for them in the memo of your check something like f*ck cops... <--- Had a buddy do that when they got him for tint and it was hilarious when I saw it. But either way new york is hard on lots of things involving vehicles.. what you ought to do is move out to like north Dakota or something where the only people that live there is like Kirby pucket and Seth hutchensen