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I can guarantee you that I can go to any police station walk up to a police officer's personal vehicle and I will see window tint on their vehicles, that is darker than the law requires, bunch of hypocrites
@@hey2556 Me too. It depends on how cool you are with them. I got pulled over recently for crossing the double yellow line. They had actually replaced the double yellow line with road dots, so I thought I could turn into the parking lot for Jack-in-the-box there. He said, "No, it's still a double yellow." I didn't argue. Plus, I didn't have my insurance at the time, but I was working on it. I was so nice and cool with the officer and I explained myself, very quietly and respectfully to him. I'm a black male too, for those who think that makes a difference. He said he would let me go with a warning. I got my insurance and registration shortly thereafter. I had to pass smog and I failed 4 times, because of a full carbon fuel canister and contaminated purge value. I didn't know all those details at the time, and I hadn't even taken it for smog yet. But, I got it fixed and I passed smog. My kindness and respect got me through having to go to court and everything. Believe me, the saying is true. "You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar." When I was younger, my car was smoking badly, and I had to get that fixed too. I had just come back from Pep Boys, and I got pulled over for that in the early 1980's by LAPD in Hollywood. I use to play music in bands and I had a joint in my car too. The two white cops asked me if I had any drugs. I told them about the one joint that I had, that I planned to smoke that night in my ash tray. They found it and threw it on the ground. They had me dead to rights, and I knew it. Me being a jerk, would just make it worse on me. I was so cool and honest with them that they let me go with a warning and they let me pick up my joint too. I smoked it that night!
there is. can only be so bright, and must be pointed at road. and more things. but law has never stopped anybody before, so i keep sunglasses on my head to flip down when the blinding light appears
Exactly, I delivered pizzas at night for many years and those big trucks and SUV headlights are blinding, especially if you've driving a low riding vintage car. I don't drive at night anymore cause my night vision is bad now.
@@azza-in_this_day_and_age good idea. I fell for the hype and got some " amber vision" glasses. They make it worse! But it's only the blue one that really bother me.
@@d.fenestrator9529 it's not the same as wearing sunglasses officer lol I've had tinted windows for years never had any issues what's so ever.... It's more for control as well as see who they stealing money from legally calling it the law lol with no tangible evidence that tinted windows are dangerous
It's the law. Laws are made to protect us all. People said similar things with seat belt laws and helmet laws. But, eventually common sense prevailed. In fact for awhile in the 60's, you could have an open container. But, that changed with M.A.D.D. A lot of young kids like tinted windows because they think it's cool. I still see people talking on their cell phones while driving and clearly distracted. I yell at them sometimes and they look at me like something is wrong with me. "Get off your cell phone and pay attention to where you are driving!"
The law only applies to non police officers and firefighters right? I see police officers leave in their personal cars out of the police station with dark tint all the way around. Not to mention all the firefighters i see in there huge diesel trucks with limo tint all the way around with their firefighter sticker on the back window 😂
Well that's because so many people in California were chanting, Defund the police. Is that what Californian's wanted? Where are those idiots now? Remember when we were making cops get the jab, and they resigned? That also hurt us and we lost more cops. Where are the idiots who loved the mandates?
If it's a state patrol car it will have an exempt plate That means exempt from registration fees Now on the police officers personal vehicle registration fees have to be paid But tinting If an other officer pulls an officer over I'm sure there will be a officer courtesy
I was pulled over and cited for using a signal less than 120 feet. Than I asked him why was he driving with a cracked windshield? His response “Its not my car, it’s a city vehicle, you can take it up with the city”
These fools are trying so hard to control every part of our lives, yet they just go around breaking all the laws they sworn to protect I have no respect for any of them
@@marioelburro1492 And even then, modern carbon and ceramic tints only become a problem at 20% and under on completely unlit rural roads. Which in San Diego is extremely rare. My tint has never posed an issue for me otherwise.
because they are a bunch of "GESTAPO" NAZI pigs and think they can do whatever they want. They'll even park in a Handicap parking spot & or even block your driveway.
I have limo tint on both of my cars but have never been pulled over for them. I believe it depends on the cop. You're correct about a lot newer cars having tint on every window.
@Tim Timmy I have the darkest tint, which would be limo. The trick to having dark tint is rolling your window down half way so the cop can whose driving. Otherwise, it's legal to have any shade on your back windows but your passenger and driver window has to be nearly visible.
Here's an idea, why not CHANGE IT instead of continuing to hand them money for fines? Every state bordering CA allows 35 Percent VLT on the front side windows.
@@UP9390catch 22 my friends. Laws in the country has practically made it financially impossible for most Americans to even put forth the stupendous effort to get laws changed. The average person is trading time for money. When most of your waking life is just surviving and trying to make rent and bills, it’s. Sort of pathetic that the only option people practically have is lobbying your politicians. Like that has ever worked for normal people, en masse, in the modern day, in a metropolitan.
I was about to say the same thing, the state got unemployment issues, homelessness, gun violence, drug Lords and cartels. Instead the law goes after a piece of dark film on a car. How petty can they go?
One of my friends had really dark tint on his side windows. A cop pulled us over and my friend said to roll down my window. The officer approached and told my friend why he stopped him and asked him to roll up his window. My friend said they don’t roll up. Of course the cop doesn’t believe him, so the cop tried to roll them up and they wouldn’t go up. He was pissed. He said “I know what I saw”. My friend had installed a hidden switch that killed the power to the windows haha.
Interesting, but in light of everything else going on in our country right now, I believe window tint is about the last thing on most peoples minds. The price of food, gas, housing and rent is slowly wiping people out.
i must object that there are more important things to deal with. Illegal tint, should be banned period. medium at the most. Tickets after a warning should be $500. Seriously
What I find ironic is that I see unmarked units or even marked units with 15 or even 5% on the front windows and their law enforcement. My book we are all human whether you're an officer or a civilian we're all driving cars. We all have the same percentage of creating an accident or being in one. So if your law enforcement that doesn't give you an exception right?
It's a motherfucker on the west coast. But the weather makes it all worth it. It's diffently a police state police everywhere. When I was a teenager they use to stop us from our music being to loud and then came tinted windows and then loud mufflers and then fat tires with low treads made from the manufacturers. Now cool air induction is illegal and back to tinted windows again about 40 years later. But they never have shut down the tint business are the sound stores who installed all that powerful music equipment in cars are all those muffler shop that put those bad ass loud sounding muffler on cars nor have they shut down any speed shops that tune cars to 800 to 1000 horse power. But they always focus on us regular people's and fine and tow our shit off. And get us But not the company's that sell us all that good stuff that we buy and put on our cars. They never make laws against the companies that make and sell all that shit they ticket us for having on our cars u can bet police personal Cars are fly to with some of the same shit that make our cars fly.
I live in California and a law is only good if it’s enforced. Looking at the amount of cars driving with tinted windows clearly show the law is not being enforced.
The windshield tint is where I'm worried. That seems more contentious than the front side windows. I'm running 25% on the fronts and the cops here in the bay area don't care. But I'd love to go windshield. Just i don't want the attention to get state reffed.
I think having your windows HEAVILY tinted is about the most proactive thing you can do to protect yourself from the thugs and all the violent criminals out there! Mine are limo tinted and I wouldn't have it any other way. I won't be carjacked since the morons won't know who's in the vehicle! 😂
It's a law that rarely gets enforced, judging from the number of vehicles that I see with dark tinted front windows. I received a fix-it ticket for front windows about 15 years ago. They weren't even that dark. I knew someone in law enforcement that signed off on them. I never removed the tint and haven't had an issue since.
I'm in NC and having a hard time finding someone to inspect my car with the tint and NC cop's don't mess with you much about it. But in VA cop's are Nazis about illegal tint.
California especially Southern California is a desert. We need tinted windows to combat the heat and from getting sun burn. That's my reason. And I see out just fine, no dark tint is the key...
"You don't wear sunglasses at night" is there a law saying you can't wear sunglasses at night? Window tint laws are seriously abused by law enforcement ~ Personally I can't have a car without tint, I feel like the items in my car are so exposed without tint. And last: most law enforcement vehicles have dark tint, back and front.
The reason are simple: cops want to see whose in a vehicle and they don't think it's any of our darn business what they are up to. Typical double standard. When cops are yelling and cursing at you while you are just sitting there alway say " what with the attitude ?"
If they’re allowing drivers with no insurance getting into big accidents and they still get to continue driving even after being reported for no coverage, only a real asshat officer will be pulling over a car over tinted windows.
Usually cops on motorcycles give tint tickets cause they just camp out at one spot all day looking for cars that don’t make a full stop, tint and no front plate. Only in cali lol
@@NAT-turners-Revenge how many have blown up and been recalled? And what are teslas gonna do when the power grid shuts down and they can't charge the junk? Atleast when the government shuts down the power I'll have a full tank and get the hell outta here.
The law is actually obsolete and bias. Obsolete because with the new tint you can actually see at night vs old 90’s tint. And the law is also bias because if it was a “hazard” then they wouldn’t of put them on their police and government vehicles.
Yup. Did you know that railroad locomotives have tinted windows but commercial trucks aren’t allowed to have tinted windows. Some police cars have dark tinted windows.
Know your rights: tinted front windows in CA are _reasonable suspicion_ to be pulled over, temporarily detained & questioned. However, tinted front windows (on their own) are *not* _probable cause_ for a search of your vehicle. Point: if you're pulled over for tinted front windows, be polite, explain that you bought the vehicle in that condition & that you'll remove the tint ASAP, & then decline the vehicle search when asked. Simple.
This is a rule a lot like an apartment complex stating that you have to make two and a half times your rent. It's meant for discrimination. The original rule was to allow an officer to see who they were pulling over prior to. Apartment complex have a two and a half times rent clause that they can use their discretion to overrule. If they don't want the tenant they will obviously enforce the rule to the letter but if they like the potential tenant they have their discretion of excusing the two and a half times rule... Like these officers when they see the driver, it allows them to use their discretion whether or not to pull them over if they've committed a violation.
This is the one CHP officer that actually knows what he is talking about. Most of us shops always tell the customer the legal limit on the front windows is 70% which is basically nothing it’s clear. Customer always decided to go darker
I got 25% tint (or i think it's darker), but it's perfect at daytime since it gets really hot out, and it helps out a bit keeping the interior (cool). My car also came with a 4 inch sun strip, and i haven't been pulled over. It definitely helps when the sun is trying to blind you. Sometimes, i drop the window down to take turns ar night, but it's not a huge issue for me. Maybe Cali should drop it to 30%
They have no Penal Code on Window tinting. I have researched and Cops NEVER pulls up a penal code that says it’s illegal. The law says YOU the driver have to be able to see out the window. Not them seeing in
Remember to fight your tickets with Trial by Written Declaration meaning you just have to fight it threw the mail and 2 chances of winning. I've won like this before
It gets well over 100 in most of SoCal. I’ve always fully tinted my vehicles. any cop that hassles people for tint is participating in “chicken shit policing.”
I live in l.a county and about 50% of cars have blacked out tint all around. Make me nervous, is it a gang related individual hiding in there, drug dealer, criminal,can they properly see me when walking or driving near them... but i just keep seeing more and more.
Identifying criminals is easier by looking at the car type and rims and so on. Not window tints. Someone with a Prius or Nissan leaf and tinted windows isn’t gonna rob you.
THANK YOU. I'm glad someone else is aware of how idiotically inconsistent tint laws are between states. VA is just as idiotic with the tint laws, excluding DC, every state bordering VA allows 35 Percent VLT on the front side windows. If I didn't live very close to the VA border, I would absolutely have 35 percent on my front side windows. VA considers a tint violation a misdemeanor offense, they only allow 50 percent VLT on the front side windows.
What if your car was parked in a shitty areas and you didn’t want people to Break in so you’re tinted your windows?. Organized theft they can’t stop but tell you you can’t protect yourself
For me also for civilians to see who in my neoghborhood took my catalystic converter! I am having a hard time getting a description. Is there a way to better identify the driver when needed?
One thing to note is if you have your window tinted beyond what's legal, you're essentially giving a cop probable cause to pull you over anytime they want to or feel like it because you have a violation.
Well hell if I go to a car dealership and buy a car, I assume it's legal.. or do I need to pay extra on eBay for a window tint reader to test it before I buy genius?
One thing to note: if police believe you to be "suspicious" which is subjective and isnt a crime. You are going to be followed until they can justify or make up a reason to pull u over
You’re windows are just as dark on the inside as they are on outside. One way tint is for commercial applications and was never designed to be put on cars.
@@Tintmasterswindowtinting I have a Ford truck extended cab with tinted windows on the back side windows. From outside I can't see in. From inside they are the same as all the others. Not dark at all. I don't know the particulars. Maybe added by the previous owner. But definitely only dark one way ( and very dark.) The driver and passenger windows and windshield and back window are untinted so hopefully I wont get stopped. Kinda weird to tint just those 2, but it makes it easier to find in a parking lot. There are an amazing number of white Ford pickups out there. You tint windows for a living I gather . I only know what I see on my own vehicle, which has a number of bizarre after market additions.
Been ticketed at least twice for window tint. I forget how much the ticket was but essentially you remove the tint and get it signed off by chp. I later just redid the tint that same day. Was running limo tint before, but that was too dark for me at night so switch to a lighter tint. Had no problems since.
I see tinted front windshields quite often, especially pickups in the carpool lane. Nothing's enforced..I mean, you'd have to actually be on the freeways to enforce anything.
How about enforcing laws like, I dunno, um License, insurance, and registration? May as well defund every agency since the "lawmakers" seem to want to fine the hardworking citizens while criminals run amok with impunity. Window tint? What about the transients playing Frogger on the freeway?
I feel you on that, but if someone is driving around and driving well, even if they don't have a license registration or insurance, how would anyone know they dont gave a license, insurance, etc unless they were to get pulled over for some other reason? In this case, for their window tint...
I think the most important point he said was right when the segment ended in that you may be liable, or at least found to have partial fault, if you have illegal tint. Imagine getting T-boned at an intersection because the other guy ran the light and the guy's lawyer successfully argues that you have partial fault because your tints were too dark lol
Drive by the employee parking lot of ANY law enforcement agency in California. Tell me how many Illegally tinted personal cars you find that magically don’t seem to get cited. “Rules for thee but not for me”
