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Old Mar 7, 2006 | 08:17 PM
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our legal limit here is 50% and I had 35% on my last car, and I thought it was plenty dark and gave it a really nice look...I never got pulled over, but that is cuz i was driving a monte carlo so maybe cops didnt think to much of it...on a t/a it seems like if any little thing is out of place they will pull you over...so im not sure if i should tint them to 35% or not..
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Old Mar 7, 2006 | 08:47 PM
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35 % will usually meter about 32-33 due to the factory tint already in the glass, so you may not *technically* be legal.
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Old Mar 7, 2006 | 09:18 PM
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Originally Posted by hondo
35 % will usually meter about 32-33 due to the factory tint already in the glass, so you may not *technically* be legal.
Are you sure about that? When I bought my car, the side windows had a layer of 35% tint with a layer of 20% over that. Tint meters always read 6% or 7%. Maybe that's true for newer cars, but not mine.
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Old Mar 7, 2006 | 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by hondo
35 % will usually meter about 32-33 due to the factory tint already in the glass, so you may not *technically* be legal.
While it may meter out as that, visually it shouldn't be enough of a difference to catch some LEOs attention (as opposed to 5% all round)
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Old Mar 7, 2006 | 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by NightRider_13
Here's mine... had to get it changed to 50% though, legal limit. This pic is 35%, but it looks alittle darker because the sun was glaring some.

Don't mean to hi jack, but do you happen to have picks of that 50% tint?
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Old Mar 8, 2006 | 07:56 AM
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Originally Posted by 2K2WS6TA
Doesn't look as light as I thought
BTW Nice looking Z
Charcoal "looks" darker than black tint. I have 5% charcoal on driver and passenger windows and 20% black on the back window. Both are almost identicle in color. I don't have a side pics, but here is a video shot from the side of the car.

http://media.putfile.com/SS2002
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Old Mar 8, 2006 | 08:02 AM
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I have no clue what the legal limit in KY is..I am thinking 35% Cops don't care where I live. Everyone I know has tint on the windshield and everything, they don't care. My car has 2 layers of 5% on sides and back, none on windshield.
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Old Mar 8, 2006 | 02:04 PM
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I know you wanted a black TA...but here is my white Camaro with 50%. Leagal limit here in Iowa is 70%. I think mine looks dark because I have 5% on the back window.
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You may or may not know this, but FWIW... As a former cop I can tell you that walking up to a vehicle you have stopped and not being able to see inside is damned troubleing. More than several cops have been killed due to the fact that the POS behind the tint had a gun that couldn't be seen. The cops are generally not being asses, they simply enjoy going home to Momma and the kids, silly as that may sound. But, having said that, I likes my tint as dark as legally allowed, too.
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