Window Tint.
shailynn
They never tell you what you need to know.
Went to get my SUV serviced and needed an inspection sticker which is required in my state once a year. It’s a pretty lax one compared to other states. Are your tires and brakes in good shape? All turn signals, lights and horn work? That’s about it.
BUT yesterday they rejected me because of my window tint. In the front I was told it has to be 35% and mine is 13%. If you don’t know 35% is not very dark. I was told I could go as dark as I want on the rear windows. I was like WTF I’ve brought this SUV here for 5 years and you never said anything before??? Was told the state is cracking down. He told me “don’t bother going somewhere else because they cracked down on everyone around here.”
So now I’m going to have to have my tint ripped off and put lighter tint on. Yay me.
BUT yesterday they rejected me because of my window tint. In the front I was told it has to be 35% and mine is 13%. If you don’t know 35% is not very dark. I was told I could go as dark as I want on the rear windows. I was like WTF I’ve brought this SUV here for 5 years and you never said anything before??? Was told the state is cracking down. He told me “don’t bother going somewhere else because they cracked down on everyone around here.”
So now I’m going to have to have my tint ripped off and put lighter tint on. Yay me.
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That's a question, right? Aren't you a gearhead? Not today, sexy lady.
https://texasjustice.com/blog/texas-car-….
SJG
In NJ you might kill 10 people in a fiery highway crash, but dammit you will NOT emit one nanogram of pollution above the government limit.
During the day or in a will lit part of town I doubt 65% tint would cause much trouble but in a rural area without street lights I could see 65% tint making it hard to see out of the window.
These rules vary from state to state, my understanding is the darkest tint available for automobile windows is 35% VLT and is not street legal in many places.
Businesses need to be accountable
Why is it necessary to always be a jerk, this is how we come to a consensus that you're stupid.
It's no different than an exhaust system that doesn't have catalytic converters or mufflers and no different than NOS. Both are legal to put on a car and use on a racetrack but illegal to use on public streets.
If someone uses a legal product in an illegal way that is there fault not the seller's fault. Just like if a shop legally sells someone a gun and that person uses it to rob a liquor store it isn't the fault of the shop that sold the gun.
If he knew and still did it it's on him. But in some states it's more regulated than others
I’ve had my tint the same for the past decade on probably 6 different cars. Nobody ever said a word and they all always passed inspection because nobody cared. A year or so ago I got a scratch on one of my windows so I had (another shop) retint the front driver and passenger doors. At the time they were trying to talk me into tinting my entire front window. I was like WTF!?!? I have never even seen that done in my part of the world. Yes I know some people do it in other states but here? No way.
As for the place that does the inspections being on “probation” that’s a big deal, if they lose the right to perform state inspections then they will lose a ton of business because people come in to get their vehicles inspected and then they need repairs (new tires, brakes) which other than oil changes and minor suspension work that’s all this shop does, tires and brakes. If they have no inspection license available a lot less tires and brakes are going to be installed/sold. If they pass me for inspection, and I get pulled over, and the cop says my windows are too dark, they’ll look up where I got my vehicle inspected and go back to penalize them as well.
We need more oversight in general. Like make gun stores accountable if a gun they sell is used in a crime.
We need to stop defending 7nethical practices
Yeah right this what I want to spend my days and nights obsessing about LULZ
What a fucking loser.
The shops always show me the front/rear legal samples, but they're always more than willing to just put the rear legal stuff on all the windows so it matches, but is illegal. There's nothing unethical about them doing it in my mind. Even if they didn't tell me, it wouldn't be unethical. It only crosses that line if I ask what's legal and they lie to me to sell me a more expensive product. If they're wrong and tell me what they are applying is legal and it's not, it's not unethical its just incompetent.
I'm glad I live in a state that doesn't do annual vehicle inspections. I've got several vehicles that would never pass inspection, one truck with bumpers too low, another with headlights too high, a couple with exhaust that's not even close to legal, one with track tires, etc. Not to mention the hassle of going every year and them randomly deciding something they passed inspection on previously is now suddenly noticed as being out of compliance.