Front tints now legal in Illinois?
06-13-2009, 10:43 PM
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I'll take "Really stupid ideas" for $500 please, Alex...
Might as well get a "hit me" bumper sticker too...
I never could believe somebody could be stoopid enough to cover their BRAKELIGHTS???!!!???
06-14-2009, 12:40 AM
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Try just getting your lisense and having a silver Z28 with TT2's that the local cops have not seen before. When I first got my lisense they followed me everywhere!!!! Now they all know who I am and just wave.....
06-15-2009, 10:04 AM
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yeah i never have my front plate on... i just keep it on me. i think the cops just worry about people using the same plates on more than one vehicle... just keep it on you and tell them you dont have the bracket yet
06-20-2009, 09:08 AM
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This is the part that I don't understand? So is it saying that if the rear windows have tint on them, then the front windows cannot have a tint that allows 35% light transmittance?
So we can have 35% if the rears have tint?
"Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code to provide that a person may drive a motor vehicle with a nonreflective material tinted film that does not allow less than 50% light transmittance (or less than 35% light transmittance if the windows to the rear of the driver already have certain window treatment applied) upon the side windows immediately adjacent to each side of the driver."
So we can have 35% if the rears have tint?
"Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code to provide that a person may drive a motor vehicle with a nonreflective material tinted film that does not allow less than 50% light transmittance (or less than 35% light transmittance if the windows to the rear of the driver already have certain window treatment applied) upon the side windows immediately adjacent to each side of the driver."
06-20-2009, 09:16 AM
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To my knowledge....the rule as of today is still "No front D/P tints."
I like tints too, but I am glad there is a limit to how dark it can be. Tho it's great for many law-abiding citizens to have, there are a few "bad apples" that would try to use that to their advantage. I have pulled over many people for window tints and truthfully...if they are calm and cool and I feel they pose no threat (maybe if the ride is pimp)...I let them go. Why stick it to a hard-working, law-abiding tax-payer...right!?
If they are ********, then I write them a "compliance ticket" (they used to be $25.00 a pop, but are now $250.00). Enough comp tix will make anyone remove tint at that price. If they are really ******** about it, then I send them to court to make them prove the removal (tho not always full-proof.)
But then, there are those who like to conceal themselves doing god knows what illicit activities (guns, weed, alcohol, etc.) and in those times that's when it becomes a safety issue for police and the public. God knows that I don't want to be next to a vehicle and not see whats coming...especially on a traffic stop.
I like tints too, but I am glad there is a limit to how dark it can be. Tho it's great for many law-abiding citizens to have, there are a few "bad apples" that would try to use that to their advantage. I have pulled over many people for window tints and truthfully...if they are calm and cool and I feel they pose no threat (maybe if the ride is pimp)...I let them go. Why stick it to a hard-working, law-abiding tax-payer...right!?
If they are ********, then I write them a "compliance ticket" (they used to be $25.00 a pop, but are now $250.00). Enough comp tix will make anyone remove tint at that price. If they are really ******** about it, then I send them to court to make them prove the removal (tho not always full-proof.)
But then, there are those who like to conceal themselves doing god knows what illicit activities (guns, weed, alcohol, etc.) and in those times that's when it becomes a safety issue for police and the public. God knows that I don't want to be next to a vehicle and not see whats coming...especially on a traffic stop.
06-20-2009, 09:23 AM
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This is the part that I don't understand? So is it saying that if the rear windows have tint on them, then the front windows cannot have a tint that allows 35% light transmittance?
So we can have 35% if the rears have tint?
"Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code to provide that a person may drive a motor vehicle with a nonreflective material tinted film that does not allow less than 50% light transmittance (or less than 35% light transmittance if the windows to the rear of the driver already have certain window treatment applied) upon the side windows immediately adjacent to each side of the driver."
So we can have 35% if the rears have tint?
"Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code to provide that a person may drive a motor vehicle with a nonreflective material tinted film that does not allow less than 50% light transmittance (or less than 35% light transmittance if the windows to the rear of the driver already have certain window treatment applied) upon the side windows immediately adjacent to each side of the driver."
) Rear-tint are not as big a concern as the front (don't know why.) I would simply say over the speaker "drop your rear windows". 35% may be the limit on the rears and back, but you can, in almost all instances, get away with 5% (especially in Chicago). Most cops here don't have the equip to check ur windows anyway.
06-21-2009, 04:46 AM
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I am not near as worried about local police as I am about State Troopers. Most the horror sories I hear about tint and plates involve troopers. Especally in the Collinsville and Springfield areas.
10-30-2009, 04:04 PM
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35% is legal up front ONLY if the rears are 35% as well...anything darker in the rear makes the fronts illegal....kinda bogus but whatever...
http://www.cartype.com/pages/246/ill...ow_tinting_law
UPDATE: 10-30-9. We just got an update from Andrea at the Illinois Capitol Office. HB 3325 successfully passed the amendatory veto in the House and Senate. This bill becomes law effective immediately.
NOW LEGAL tint combinations.
1. Up to 35% in the Rear/up to 35% front
2. 35-30% in the rear/up to 50% front
3. IF YOU HAVE BELOW 30% TINT IN THE REAR, YOU CAN NOT HAVE FRONT TINT If you have an MPV, which include but are not limited to, SUVs, Station Wagons, minivans, Toasters, etc., and said MPV has factory installed privacy glass (smoked), you are allowed to have up to 50% tint in front.
http://www.cartype.com/pages/246/ill...ow_tinting_law
UPDATE: 10-30-9. We just got an update from Andrea at the Illinois Capitol Office. HB 3325 successfully passed the amendatory veto in the House and Senate. This bill becomes law effective immediately.
NOW LEGAL tint combinations.
1. Up to 35% in the Rear/up to 35% front
2. 35-30% in the rear/up to 50% front
3. IF YOU HAVE BELOW 30% TINT IN THE REAR, YOU CAN NOT HAVE FRONT TINT If you have an MPV, which include but are not limited to, SUVs, Station Wagons, minivans, Toasters, etc., and said MPV has factory installed privacy glass (smoked), you are allowed to have up to 50% tint in front.
10-30-2009, 04:37 PM
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http://www.dgtint.com/page4.php
Dave (the owner of DGtint) is one of the guys that got this Bill started. Thank him! And he also does GREAT work too!!!
Dave (the owner of DGtint) is one of the guys that got this Bill started. Thank him! And he also does GREAT work too!!!