bloody tints

[josh1989]

£30 fine for front ones, we all know it's 75%, the traffic feds used that piece of kit for guaging the light and they are 45% :panic:, showed them the receipt for the tints and that it was a year before i bought the car but didn't help, they were doing my head in to be fair and i don't reckon they were too safe. two questions:

. those lasers they use to guage the light - it being pitch black outside doesn't affect their result does it?
. best way to get tints off? they are those films ones but not the cheap ones :)

[sminotVTR]

thought front ones had to be at 30%? try heating it up and buying the sticky stuff remover.

[josh1989]

thought front ones had to be at 30%? try heating it up and buying the sticky stuff remover.

you may have it wrong way round there - must allow 75% light through, so 25% tint :) sitcky stuff remover?

[J222JRA]

Yes mate, sticky stuff remover....or tar remover

[sminotVTR]

75% through the windscreen... 30% through the front sides

http://www.shropshiretints.co.uk/legal.htm

Yea sells at halfords, a lot of people use it to take residue from graphics and door strips off

[josh1989]

Yes mate, sticky stuff remover....or tar remover

got some tar remover, hairdryer best to start the peeling?

[josh1989]

75% through the windscreen... 30% through the front sides

http://www.shropshiretints.co.uk/legal.htm

Yea sells at halfords, a lot of people use it to take residue from graphics and door strips off

that link says 70% through the front sides, mine was 45% :A:

[wadoryu]

umm guys it says 75 through the windscreen and 70 through the windows not 30

[sminotVTR]

umm guys it says 75 through the windscreen and 70 through the windows not 30

lol i meant it is 30% max tinted :) was a long day at work and i got my %'s mixed up

[supershineysaxo]

i got like a tool that decorators use to remove paint from windows its basically a razor blade in a plastic handle, i combined sticky stuff remover with that came off easy, careful not to scratch the windows tho by rushing it takes a while!

[Rach125]

dont newish cars already come with legal int on the windows?

[Ashleyp]

laws changed or changing iirc

nothing over standard tint is alowed

[wadoryu]

standard tint?

[reevesy_vtr]

Just peel the tint off and then get some hot soapy water and a kitchen scouring pad and the glue will come stright off and wont scratch the glass.

and the FEDS????? God i am getting old.

[Claireeyy]

I didn't they they could test window tints at night :
You will need to heat them and get tar remover. label remover works too :)

[reevesy_vtr]

trust me you dont need all the sticky remover stuff just the scouring pads will do the trick. I used to work in a shop that did tinting and that all we used to use and it was the quickist way that we found. Day or night they can test the windows as daylight does not affect the tester thing. If you want the front to look darker but still legal get limo tint on the back windows and legal tint on the front and it makes the front look much darker. But you can see crap all out the back.