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hey i was wondering if there are any red SE with tint on this forum. i wanted to get my car tinted but i dont know how its going to turn out. i checked cardomain but there was only a couple there. can anyone post up their red SE with the percentage of tint you got on it? thanks
I have a barcelona red SE with tint . My preference would have been 20% all the way around but we put 35 % on the front & back door and 20% on the rear windshield . Also put a dark band on the top of the windshield.It looks great, no regrets. My wife drives the car and cant see out of 20% on front doors. Sorry,I have no pictures to post.
hey i was wondering if there are any red SE with tint on this forum. i wanted to get my car tinted but i dont know how its going to turn out. i checked cardomain but there was only a couple there. can anyone post up their red SE with the percentage of tint you got on it? thanks
Whatever you do don't get two different percentages of tint. That is so retarded. Either go all the way with something dark or get nothing at all. I have 15% tint all around on my Camry. Looks great.
Whatever you do don't get two different percentages of tint. That is so retarded. Either go all the way with something dark or get nothing at all. I have 15% tint all around on my Camry. Looks great.
I like that look too, but it's illegal to get anything darker than 35% on the front door windows.
Not actually photochop, but made from the Envisio Wheel Wizard flash site.
LinarMist, Martyland really allows 15% all around, or is that just illegal? No doubt that a consistant percentage looks better, but I personally don't feel like getting pulled over all that much, they're quite strict on tint in Florida, that's the Sunshine State by the way. From what I found, Maryland is cracking down on illegal tint, here's an article from a county police website....
Recently the police department has noticed a excessive number of vehicles on the road with illegally tinted windows, and with illegally colored lights mounted on the front and sides. Both of these violations subject the vehicle operator to a moving vehicle traffic citation, with a $40-50 fine assessed. In order to prevent yourself from getting a ticket for either of these violations, you should be aware of the Maryland Laws pertaining to them. The laws are listed below, however in addition to reading them, here are a few pointers that you should know! 1) TINTED WINDOWS -The 35% Window Tint Law in Maryland means that the TOTAL amount of light being transmitted through the glass of a motor vehicle cannot be less than 35%. In other words, it doesn't make any difference what percentage the actual window tinting film is rated at, you still cannot exceed 35% total Light Transmittance Value, or LTV for short. The problem here is that many people purchase a window tint film that is rated at 35% and think it's automatically okay to put it on their car windows. A 35% window film will guarantee you that your vehicle will be illegal, and here's why: ALL vehicles come from the factory with a certain percentage of tinting incorporated into the glass. In most cases it blocks out approximately 20% of the available light, which means that 80% is still passing through. That is an LTV of 80%, and there's no problem there. An after market window tint film rated at 35% means that the film allows 35% of the available light to pass through, and blocks out 65%. (This is known as 35% LTV Film) And again, there's no problem with that. Here's where the trouble begins. When you place a 35% window tint film over a vehicle window that is already blocking out 20% of the available light, you have now reduced the LTV to 28%, which is ILLEGAL! Why is it now 28%? Because you started with a piece of glass that was already blocking out 20% of the available light, and you are now placing a 35% tinting material on a piece of glass that only had 80% available light to start with. (.35 x 80 = 28%) That means you are now blocking out 72% of the available light, leaving only 28% to pass through. You now have tinted windows with a 28% Light Transmittance Value, and remember that the State of Maryland requires an LTV of at least 35%. (Windows that are tinted darker than 35% are very obvious to police officers.) We want you understand the law completely because there are many Window Tint Shops out there who are telling their customers that a 35% window tint film placed on their vehicle glass is legal, which it isn't. (And you just saw why.) Additionally, many shops will just tint your windows without even telling you what is, and what is not legal in Maryland. Be forwarned that if you get stopped with illegally tinted windows, it's YOU that gets the $55.00 ticket, not the shop that installed it. Plus you'll have the added cost of having it removed from your vehicle, which is probably as much as it was to have it put it on!
Why take the chance? Read the actual law below regarding tinted windows in Maryland, before you have it done to your vehicle!
Not actually photochop, but made from the Envisio Wheel Wizard flash site.
LinarMist, Martyland really allows 15% all around, or is that just illegal? No doubt that a consistant percentage looks better, but I personally don't feel like getting pulled over all that much, they're quite strict on tint in Florida, that's the Sunshine State by the way. From what I found, Maryland is cracking down on illegal tint, here's an article from a county police website....
Recently the police department has noticed a excessive number of vehicles on the road with illegally tinted windows, and with illegally colored lights mounted on the front and sides. Both of these violations subject the vehicle operator to a moving vehicle traffic citation, with a $40-50 fine assessed. In order to prevent yourself from getting a ticket for either of these violations, you should be aware of the Maryland Laws pertaining to them. The laws are listed below, however in addition to reading them, here are a few pointers that you should know! 1) TINTED WINDOWS -The 35% Window Tint Law in Maryland means that the TOTAL amount of light being transmitted through the glass of a motor vehicle cannot be less than 35%. In other words, it doesn't make any difference what percentage the actual window tinting film is rated at, you still cannot exceed 35% total Light Transmittance Value, or LTV for short. The problem here is that many people purchase a window tint film that is rated at 35% and think it's automatically okay to put it on their car windows. A 35% window film will guarantee you that your vehicle will be illegal, and here's why: ALL vehicles come from the factory with a certain percentage of tinting incorporated into the glass. In most cases it blocks out approximately 20% of the available light, which means that 80% is still passing through. That is an LTV of 80%, and there's no problem there. An after market window tint film rated at 35% means that the film allows 35% of the available light to pass through, and blocks out 65%. (This is known as 35% LTV Film) And again, there's no problem with that. Here's where the trouble begins. When you place a 35% window tint film over a vehicle window that is already blocking out 20% of the available light, you have now reduced the LTV to 28%, which is ILLEGAL! Why is it now 28%? Because you started with a piece of glass that was already blocking out 20% of the available light, and you are now placing a 35% tinting material on a piece of glass that only had 80% available light to start with. (.35 x 80 = 28%) That means you are now blocking out 72% of the available light, leaving only 28% to pass through. You now have tinted windows with a 28% Light Transmittance Value, and remember that the State of Maryland requires an LTV of at least 35%. (Windows that are tinted darker than 35% are very obvious to police officers.) We want you understand the law completely because there are many Window Tint Shops out there who are telling their customers that a 35% window tint film placed on their vehicle glass is legal, which it isn't. (And you just saw why.) Additionally, many shops will just tint your windows without even telling you what is, and what is not legal in Maryland. Be forwarned that if you get stopped with illegally tinted windows, it's YOU that gets the $55.00 ticket, not the shop that installed it. Plus you'll have the added cost of having it removed from your vehicle, which is probably as much as it was to have it put it on!
Why take the chance? Read the actual law below regarding tinted windows in Maryland, before you have it done to your vehicle!
Bottom line don't drive crazy. The cops in MD are cool with tint.
Where I live in NY, they are biblical about window tint, on my Gen5 they gave a ticket for EACH window that was illegal! They where able to put a meter on the four windows and gave me FOUR TICKETS! So they only way to remedy this problem was to remove the tint within 24 hours of the ticket, drive to your local police department, show an officer that you removed the film and the tickets where dropped....
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