I was at a red light. Light turned green and I started to move forward. Cop pulled me over and gave me a ticket for my tint. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

PM PhxBlue. He can answer it.

 

OK, a lot of you have been giving your opinion on this one. Unfortunately, the use of logic that everyone has employed, while fun and interesting as a brain exercise, is not a prerequisite for law, as many others have unfortunately found out!

So, the correct short answer to the original question of whether you can get a ticket when the car is parked is "It depends". By that, I mean it depends on the state or perhaps local laws governing tinting. To find out the real answer for my state, I went online and searched the state statutes. What I found is that, in Florida, it is considered a non-moving violation, and thus, those of you that tried using the 'as long as the car's not moving, it's not a moving violation' wouldn't work here.

Now, my next question is, what percentage is being discussed when we numbers like 20% and 30%? Is that the percentage of light transmitted or is that the percentage of solar reflectance from the inside of the window? As you can see below, we can have no more than 25% reflectance and no less than 28% transmittance here in Florida. I'm assuming that the standard percentage used by installers is the light transmittance, but just curious.


Florida state statute 316.2953
"A sunscreening material is authorized for such windows if, when applied to and tested on the glass of such windows on the specific motor vehicle, the material has a total solar reflectance of visible light of not more than 25 percent as measured on the nonfilm side and a light transmittance of at least 28 percent in the visible light range. A violation of this section is a noncriminal traffic infraction, punishable as a nonmoving violation as provided in chapter 318."

 

At least here in florida, illegal tint is a secondary violation. Technically you have to be pulled over for something else and they'll just tack on the ticket for the tints. Of course, if the cop REALLY wants to get you for tints he can.

 

If you truly believe that 20% tint on a front windshield does not cut down enough vision to cause a serious safety problem, especially at night, then there’s nothing I can say to change your mind. But IMHO you’re wrong, and are “blindly” rationalizing support of a mod you personally like.

My fear is someone will end up in the morgue before they get to court.

 

My friend had a small American flag hanging off of his rearview mirror and we went into Dunkin Donuts to get some drinks... well when we get out my friend starts his car and proceeds to back up. It is at this moment that a cop stops him and gives him a ticket for obstruction of view. The cop was a real d*ck about it to, he actually said "I'll throw your asses in jail" because my friend kept trying to ask him what this was all about... the cop took my friends license for a good 15 minutes while he sat in his car and wouldn't tell us anything as to what it was about.

I have nothing against cops, but some of them truely do abuse their power.

My whole point is that the cop waited for my friend to move the car before stopping him. Because he couldn't do anything as long as we didn't move.

So I'm thinking that you can have dark tints while parked, like suppose you just temporarily tinted it for the purpose of photography? Why shouldn't you be able to do that?

But the law is screwed up so I'm probably wrong.

 

No can’t as long car not public. Lane. And not being driven you can have front window as you like

 

Awesome job at bumping an almost 19 year old thread. I'm sure the OP was still looking for a response and thankful that you came along to provide your invaluable input.

 

I'm also impressed at the easy to understand sentax used here.

 

Related to Yoda, he must be.

 

I’ll bite …

Maybe you might have gotten a ticket for tint back in’04 but not anymore on account there aren’t any cops left.

 

Good lord what a bump lol. But yes tint depends on the area, here you can have rear window tint as dark as you want but you can't have any front window tint at all. I have 5 window 2.5% limo tint on one of my summer cars because idgaf and I just want to keep the old interior from sun damage and not have sun in my face on the highway, ive gotten pulled over for tint 4 times on public roadways and the last time I got pulled by RCMP they said next time they'll impound my car lol. Private property they can't do anything as said but once you're on public roadways you'll get nailed, i've parked my car at work and had cops park beside it for 2-3 hours hoping to see me leave and nail for tint

 

depends on the state law in your state, every state has a tint limit, California you can't tint your window at all. So each state varies. you have look it up online what the legal limit

 

Just registered an account to the forum just to say thanks for bumping a 19 year old thread lol, I was searching online for ops question, and this thread was one of the first google results. Hilarious Don't even know what Maxima.org is, guess I'll take a gander and look around.

 

to the Org, Paul. Buy a Maxima, join the conversation.

 

very possible, or he's gone to the dark side......

 

Its have to be a real pizzed off cop

 

It did not happen to me, but I heard some news reporting this.