Tinted Windows

[hepcat]

So I've got window tint on my car and have had some cops give me crap about it. I carry around my NC State Inspection cert that says "Window Tint - Pass" and offer to open the windows so they can see in the car.

One cop at a license check was like "You know if you get pulled over some cop can climb in your car and pull the tint off your windows" and I laughed at him. I think if that happened I would videotape it with my phone for posting on the internet (but apparently in "free speech" America, that's illegal)

Bottom line is, cops will do anything to bust you, even giving you BS about your windows being tinted. I'm just worried about moving to a different state and it not passing inspection.

[Darth Biscuit]

Don't cops have a little device that they can use to check the tint? It's only the drivers and passengers front windows that have limits right, and it can only go so far down on the windshield...

But yes, some of them will find anything they can to give you grief about.

[thefuzz]

It has never been worth it to me to get pulled over for something as dumb as tint.

Have a few beers after work with a buddy and get pulled over and get a DUI...that's a $6,000 tint job.

[Zcustom]

If I remember correctly NC's laws on tint are more strict than most states, so moving probably wouldn't be a big issue.

If you got the inspection to prove it let them have their little ego trip and laugh as you pull away

[Jbro]

About 8 years ago I cop pulled me over at 2am for something random and did a tint check. It did not pass and he said I had to leave the car on the side of 485 betweem Rea & Johnston and remove it myselt or get it towed a tint shop. I told him I would have a wrecker pick it up asap. I jumped in the car with my buddy who was following me we went to Waffle House came back an hour later I jumped in my car and took off, the cop was waiting for me hidden off the Johnston rd. pulled me over and had my car towed.

[Darth Biscuit]

About 8 years ago I cop pulled me over at 2am for something random and did a tint check. It did not pass and he said I had to leave the car on the side of 485 betweem Rea & Johnston and remove it myselt or get it towed a tint shop. I told him I would have a wrecker pick it up asap. I jumped in the car with my buddy who was following me we went to Waffle House came back an hour later I jumped in my car and took off, the cop was waiting for me hidden off the Johnston rd. pulled me over and had my car towed.

He wouldn't let you drive it home with the windows down? Nice.

[hepcat]

He wouldn't let you drive it home with the windows down? Nice.

When you're getting pulled over, roll all your windows down. Unless you've got a huge weapons cache in your backseat, you've got nothing to lose.

[Jbro]

I was a punkass street racer kid. The same cop yelled at us every weekend for loitering/ setting up races. I did roll my windows down but he checked my whole car (ride height, tires, tint etc.) he also gave me a ticket for my tires. I was running slicks on the street. It was a car I usually only brought to the track.

[Darth Biscuit]

When you're getting pulled over, roll all your windows down. Unless you've got a huge weapons cache in your backseat, you've got nothing to lose.

Yeah, I do all that stuff they say do... roll window down, turn stereo off, put your hands on the wheel, be polite... it helps. Cop got me last year for passing on the right, but I was nice and didn't argue, just fessed up and told him I was just on my way to work... let me off with a warning.

[Darth Biscuit]

Just follow Chris Rock's advice...

[Hawk]

can't have any tint at all on the front windows. Asshole cop pulled me over when I had just finished tinting my TL. They weren't even really dark, nowhere near as dark as I see some vehicles, thats for sure...plus it's an older guy driving a TL....not some 18 year old driving a civic. Guy was a real prick and gave me a ticket and threatened that he would be looking for me whenever possible to make sure I took it off....or else!

ya, I broke the law and all, but he was a dick about it

[hepcat]

can't have any tint at all on the front windows. Asshole cop pulled me over when I had just finished tinting my TL. They weren't even really dark, nowhere near as dark as I see some vehicles, thats for sure...plus it's an older guy driving a TL....not some 18 year old driving a civic. Guy was a real prick and gave me a ticket and threatened that he would be looking for me whenever possible to make sure I took it off....or else!

ya, I broke the law and all, but he was a dick about it

I mean I already know the answer to this, but do you think that making the arguement:

"Why are you harassing an upstanding citizen about window tint when someone is being stabbed to death right now? Why did you even become a cop in the first place if your idea of enforcing the law is hassling a citizen who didn't break any serious laws instead of placing yourself in a position to make a difference?"

I mean how could a cop respond to that? I know they aren't interested in proving their worth to you, only cuffing you and maybe slamming your head to the pavement, but still. Cops wouldn't be cops if they were anywhere close to smart. There isn't another job with a bigger personal contradiction.

[g5jamz]

If I were a cop...I would answer.

"Because if I had received at the same moment I saw your tinted windows, a call of someone being stabbed over the radio...I wouldn't have taken the time to pull your smart a$$ over."

Something along those lines.

[The Saltman]

Due to the fact that NC inspections check tint on a yearly basis unless either you aren't getting your car inspected thus not being able to get new registration every year I don't understand why a cop can even pull you over for it. I is confused.