Nugget2109

Hey guys, what % window tint would look good on my car? i ahve an appt. to get it done satruday. thanks.

mario82z28

i have 10 % on mine looks good but its a pain to back up or see at night though

Nugget2109

thats a little low for me, i'd lovbe to have it, but out legal limit is 50%. not sure how much lower than that i want to go.

skiwrench

I had 5% all around on my firebird, and I loved it. Sure, it was difficult to see out of at night and backing up, but hey - thats the price you have to pay sometimes. However, what drove me to take it off was that I got 4 tickets for the tint. I am now running 22% on the back and 35% on the sides. (Legal limits in PA are 20% on the back and 70% on the sides.) Overall I would say I am happy, but I would go back to the dark tint any day as long as the police would leave me alone. Sadly, thats never going to happen in PA.

89Formula_350

Your legal limit is 50%?? Where is that at?? Our legal limit in Texas is 20% on the driver and passenger door windows, but on the back windows (if you have a 4 door car) and the back windshield, it can be 5%, which is like limo tint. I have 5% on my back hatch and 20% on my doors. The 5% is a little dark when it is night, but it cuts out over 95% of heat, which is important to me. The 20% is pretty good ... not too dark, but not too light. Again, 50% seems pretty light to be the minimum legal limit. If we are talking about the same percentage standards, 50% has to be barely there at all. The highest percentage I have really seen for sale has been 30%.

skiwrench

Some draconian states ban tint completely. I thought we lived in a free country.

(P.S. If you can't tell I'm still kind of bitter about those tickets.)

Nugget2109

i live in ohio... it says "has to let in atleast 50% light in

89Formula_350

Oh I am not thinking. I grew up in Michigan and I think at the time you couldn't have any tint at all of any type on your front windows. It must be a northern thing, because in the south they are much more liberal with the tint. But then again it is a bit hotter down here, so it is more necessary.

Stephen

iTrader: (12)

But...You can get a legal exemption in TX, with NO restrction. Meaning, you could do 5% everwhere, including lower than the windshield AS1 line.

89Formula_350

Really, I did not know that. I know in El Paso they don't really enforce the tint laws ... at least from what I have seen ... unless you are doing something else wrong and are trying to slam you. But it gets so hot down here that tint is a must. You hardly see any cars without tint of one shade or another.