Hi everyone. I took my 97 F-150 in for state inspection because it was due and I needed a new state tag. Last year I had to take the truck to the sate highway patrol office to get my tint approved. The windows were tinted when I bought the truck 4 years ago and they approved it and put a sticker on my windsheild.
This year they changed the law and it failed. I paid a local glass company 20 bucks to remove it. The owner told me that a lot of the state police vehicles are having to have the tint film removed because it doesn't meet new state law.
What are the state laws or regulations in the other areas you guys live in?

 

50% all around in Minnesota.

 

You can go as dark as you want but only on the windows behind the drivers seat. No tint in front of the drivers seat. Iowa

 

I honestly dont know. I think it basically the same as mdjohnson. But luckly I dont have to go through any inspections so I have limo on the rear doors and back window and 25% on the driver/passenger windows.

 

They really came down hard in Fla. a few years ago when a state trooper was killed while approaching a car from behind. It's supposed tobe the same way here in Okla., but with no more state inspections, they don't really enforce it.

 

La, as dark as you want on all windows to the rear of the front seats and 90% vlt (visible light transmission) on the fronts, but if you dont go to far overboard on the front windows they will usually leave you alone.

 

TX, as dark as you want on any glass behind the drivers seat. The two front windows has to let at least 20% light in for state inspection, but state law is like 26% or something like that (weird huh). and the front windshield can be tinted as dark as you want as long as it dosent go down more than 5 in. or exceed the AS1 line on the top of the glass.

 

How do you like the new change ddrumman, I have yet to get mine tested but I already know that I will fail and that is why I haven't done it yet. What I have never understood is how come we have to have our windows at a certain percentage but the highway patrol can have theirs totally blacked out?

 

Same in IL

 

As dark as you want behind the front doors, 50% on front glass, can't have the windshield tinted. I've been stopped several times and never been hassled, and I had 30% on the doors. What I don't understand is if they want the doors brighter to protect themselves, then why not every window? The only time a cop doesn't approach from the back is at a checkstop, right? So in theory, I could be sitting in the driver's seat with a loaded hand gun, yet they'd have no idea until it was too late. Now, I'm not saying to make it so all windows have to be 50%, lower the limit on the fronts to 35% or so. Visibility is still fine, its even fine at 20%.


Trevor

 

Up here in Nova Scotia, no tint on front drivers side and passenger window and front windshield, unless factory installed. Had the same on my 94 F-150, tint on my side window for a about 6 years and then was told wouldn't pass provincial inspection unless I had it removed. Removed it myself, started by peeling back a top corner, enough to grasp and then it came off all in one pull. Took a little acetone to take off the remaining glue. To remove film, took about 3 minutes total and a little longer to remove remaining glue.