Can anyone please post what 5% tint in the rear and 35 % tint in the front would look like? PA state law is 35 % in the front. I got pulled over and ticketed in my old Maxima w/15% in front and 5% in the back . I was just wondering what it would look like with a lighter tint up front. Thanks!

-Matt

 

uh, i thought pa law was 70% tint? which is basically unnoticeable/factory. might get more help in general max, or PA info in the region forum. but what do i know?

 

First, some window tint laws from state to state info:

http://www.iwfa.com/iwfa/Law_Chart/S...aw%20Chart.htm

I have pics of 35% drivers, passenger, and rear.

Will never go dark in the back as driving at night backing up was a nightmare. Could have went with metallic 35% tint, but being military, I move from state to state, base to base and was not wanting a ticket or having to scrape....so I just stuck with standard Luminar....I think that was the brand, 35%.

Hope this helps.

 

I personally have 15% Llumar tint on my '04. It's just dark enough where you can still see inside the front windows (since the 04 maxima lets in so much light through the windshield.) Given the back does look darker but that's expected. I'd really just go a little darker than legal limit. I can't see wasting money on tint if it's barely noticeable

 

That sucks. I was sure it was 35, but oh well. No tint for the Max now! That's ashame. I think the Smoke would look great with tint of some sort.

 

Well, as far as tint, you can do what you want with the darkness, yes, dark tint and metallic looks good....but that one day....THAT ONE DAY....he will come, the cop you were expecting, gives the ticket, says "Scrape or Pay" and not much you can do. Than you are looking at a removal fee, retint fee, you can see what I mean. Some people get away with things, some do not. Hell, I got a 65 dollar ticket for a smoke FRONT licence plate cover in Idaho, the trooper would not even give me a fix it ticket or let me remove it on the spot and that would have been a 1 minute easy phillips head fix. I see cars out here with some dark tint and colored metallic tint....at least for a few days and then their car is changed back. Again, varies state to state and how the local cops are. I know a cop out here, they really look for tint and clear blue bulbs, colored bulbs.....neon, all that stuff. Even if you are an out of state driver, like in Cali where I am origionally from....man, they play NO GAMES out there.

Funny thing is, Mercedes and Lexus have some tint factory installed that seems to get by.

Again, depends on the local cops, actually give them a call, ask them how they feel about tint and what they suggest, will not hurt. What will hurt I can tell you is....forking out a few hundred bones for a nice tint job, cop pulls you over, ticket, pay to remove, retint....you know what I mean and the hastle of your car in the tint shop AGAIN.

Reason the cops do not like dark tint, and you have to agree with this in a way though:

Pull over someone at night, go up to the window, guy has tinted windows pulled up and shoots cop through the window.

Reason for some states having front plate laws:

Criminal commits crime, easier to take a licence plate number down if a car has front and rear plate.

Reason cops hate colored lights or ricer strobes or some aftermarket HIDs:

can be confused with emergency vehicle or the missaligned lights BLIND the hell out of people.

 

 

I completely agree with you as to why cops don't like tint. It is really a safety precaution. When I got pulled over in my old car, it was just for the tint. I tried to put my windows down as soon as I saw the cop pull out, but he had me put the windows up and tested the tint. That screwed me.

 

wow, i got 5% tint all around, and i'm from queens, ny
i had 5% tint on my old Dodge Stratus too, and being young around here driving i got stopped on average about twice a month. Every time i would get pulled over they would say " Don't you think these tints are too dark?" give me a look, but then they would completely dismiss it. Luckily i haven't gotten pulled over in the Maxima yet, but even when i had my Stratus one time I was pulled over by detectives, they said that the tints were way too dark and that i had to change them, but they never wrote me a ticket. I can't help it, i love the 5% tint. When it's bright in the daytime the sunlight doesn't kill me when it comes through the windows. At night when i'm stopped at the red light I don't have to worry about guys looking in at me or at my girl next to me. I feel at ease when i'm driving and it really compliments the smoke paint job . They look great after cleaning the windows too with sum Eagle one 20/20

 

i agree stack bundles with the dark tint. i am planning on doing a dark tint as well and since a lot of light comes in the the windshield i am going to do a very light tint in the windshield as well but dark enough to be efficient.

 

Telling ya though.....cops really do not like windshield tint....just a I told ya so thing.

Remember, I am not telling you guys NOT TO DO IT....hell, it is your car, do what you want with it....but, do not think about posting "I got a ticket for my tint and now I am screwed.....I am out so much money" Or, "I was backing up and smashed into someone because my tint is too dark."

This it through personal experience, I had dark tint before...only once, learned ALOT from it. Hated rolling the windows down to backup at night, even bright backup bulbs would not help. Plus, just another thing to get pulled over or written up for. Cop sees you speeding a bit on the edge, thinks about ignoring it, than sees the dark tint....now he has more incentive....add some blue headlights, loud exhaust, neon, extra little things....hell, anything like that stuff is just an extra reason for pulling you over.

Again, not bagging on you guys, just wanted to explain my reasoning. Also, after being stationed in Tucson AZ, I know that tint is important, that is where I learned my double limo tint lesson.