Window tints

  1. L-plater Joined: Jan 2009 leigh Posts: 99 cammed saxo 1.4 furio
    #1
    Hi people can you have tints on your front windows in your car ive bin told they are illegal but ive got them and neva had a problem PLEASE HELP !!!!!!!!!!
  2. Regular Poster Joined: Apr 2008 Ferryhill North East Posts: 423 Saxo Vtr MK2 breaking mk1 wicked red
    #2
    depends on how dark there are, theres a disscusion some where on the site, regarding this.
  3. Established Member Joined: May 2008 Basingstoke Posts: 1680 Subaru Impreza Newage WRX
    #3
    any tint on front windows is illegal, as to not getting pulled, i have mates that have been , and others that havent
  4. Regular Poster Joined: Oct 2008 glagow,darnley Posts: 285 MK1 mango westcoast..
    #4
    saxo windows have a standard tint. you can go a little darker but not much. if the traffic police check with the light meter then you can be get a fine n told to remove them.
  5. Frequent Poster Joined: May 2008 Bristol Posts: 561 None
    #5
    i think the percentage on the front your allowed is about 29/30%
  6. Frequent Poster Joined: Feb 2007 UK Posts: 825 Icelandic Vtr
    #6
    you are not allowed any tints on the front windows...fact!!
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  7. L-plater Joined: Jan 2009 leigh Posts: 99 cammed saxo 1.4 furio
    #7
    see people say differant things you can buy them from citroen
  8. Saxperience Hardcore! Joined: May 2007 Posts: 16839 Saxo VTS, Westfield
    #8
    as of last year its illegal to tint front windows. there was a major clamp down in stoke a few months back where the police were stopping people, scratcing the front tints so they had to be removed
  9. Regular Poster Joined: May 2009 Posts: 491
    #9
    It's illegal
  10. Established Member Joined: Mar 2009 KDY Posts: 1156 Saxo VTR (R Reg)
    #10
    i thought there was a light percentage you were aloud wasnt much i know but they are totally illegal now ?
  11. Frequent Poster Joined: Oct 2008 Letchworth Posts: 584 Saxo 1.4 furio 2001
    #11
    It is NOT Illegal to have tints on Driver and passanger windows alsong as they let through 70% of light, any less than that and thhey are illegal, but you can have tinting on the windows.
  12. Saxperience Hardcore! Joined: May 2007 Posts: 16839 Saxo VTS, Westfield
    #12
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Joe3490 View Post
    It is NOT Illegal to have tints on Driver and passanger windows alsong as they let through 70% of light, any less than that and thhey are illegal, but you can have tinting on the windows.

    Mod please close this thread!
    oh right............ why therefore is it that lots of people that do tinting will not tint front windows anymore???? Ive phoned several companies around the stoke area and they say no.
  13. Frequent Poster Joined: Oct 2008 Letchworth Posts: 584 Saxo 1.4 furio 2001
    #13
    some companies dont like to do it as it does restrict your side vision, mainly at night, also if a company does tint your windows whats stopping you from saying you want teh tints to be 40 or 50 %, i've been pulled over many times and had nothing said about my front tintings, as that are only 30% tinted.
  14. Regular Poster Joined: Apr 2009 Kirkby In Ashfield Posts: 477 Saxo VTR Saxo 1.1sx Fiesta Courier Van
    #14
    I have just been done for tints... (and black and silver plates! ) your allowed no more than 35% reduction in light... Mine let 30% through! didnt get fined i just had to take them off.
  15. Newbie Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 19 saxo vts
    #15
    i believe u can but not very dark,mayb the lightest u cn get
  16. Saxperience Addict Joined: Aug 2004 Herts. N/W London Posts: 13578 Project MK4 MoreDoor
    #16
    70% of light has to be able to shine through the front 2 windows. The 'light smoke' tint (lightest grade available) allows 69% of light to shine through, so is therefore illegal.
    We will still tint front windows, but get people to sign a disclaimer to say that they have been told its illegal.
    Also, most cars from mid 90's onwards came with a slight 'tint' as standard. Basically a sun protecting tint that you can't really notice. But as soon as you add the lightest available tint ontop of that, it will make it darker still. So basically, it is illegal to tint your front side windows. Not a tested part of the MOT though.
  17. Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: May 2007 Posts: 4857
    #17
    Not really looked in to it but as far as I am aware its actually illegal to use any sort of tinted film on your front windows. If you look carefully you will see that your windows are E marked. As part of the E mark for the front and front side windows is there optical characteristics. So altering this in any way even if within legal tolerances would still render the windows illegal as it was altered after it was approved.

    Its something akin to getting a road tyre and then cutting more tread in to it. The tyre was road legal to start with. Now you have altered it the original markings no longer apply and so the tyre is now illegal even if its still got a legal amount of tread on.
  18. Regular Poster Joined: Apr 2009 Aberdeenshire Posts: 372 Sunbeam Alpine, Citroen Saxo VTR BMW z4
    #18
    there was a video about this. it is ilegal to get your front windows darker than 30% tint. normal front windows already have a tint quite close to this so there is no point in tinting them. the back windows though can be as dark as you want.
  19. Infrequent Poster Joined: Feb 2009 Glasgow Posts: 209 saxo vtr
    #19
    if this is correct that you cant have tints on the front why do merc avantgardes which is basically the top o the range ones have blue tints on them n if they were so illegal i dont think mercedes who happen to make one o the most prestiges car manufacturers in the world would be doing this
  20. Frequent Poster Joined: Apr 2009 birmingham Posts: 645 vw lupo gti
    #20
    front tend to be factory tinted by about 10% uo to i think 15% is legal but i had 15%extra so 25 and ev had probs