window tints

[ScottHmk4]

car will hopefully be getting tints very soon, so i can get my SCN stickers on which arrived today, wooooo!!!!, anyways looking for some pics to see how dark u guys have gone and so on, just to give me a better idea, im thinking, light smoke at the front and the mediam all the rest, but would like to see some pics, thanks guys

aww and incase anyone is interested i made a new SCN bebo skin today which u can feel free to steal. (I was a tad bored lol)

http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MyProfile=Y

 

[Ibiza 130 tdi]

Go for medium tint at the back and light tint on the front.

(30% dark at the back - 5 to 10% dark at the front.)

 

[R1ch85]

50% on front, 80% on back

think this is the third time i posted the same post in 2 weeks!

 

[Elfman]

35% all around, not a ibiza, but i havent got round to doing it yet,

my old civic

 

[ScottHmk4]

r1CH85 looks nice, but with urs bein a black car, may look too much on mines bein red

 

[Ibiza 130 tdi]

!

You didn't have this at the meet did you?

Why didnt you come to the Cribbs meet fella?

 

[R1ch85]

http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=171230&page=2

post 26 scott

Cribbs meet?? did i post in the thread? I cant remember posting if i did or I'd have been there! Tints are a new addition, bout 3 weeks ago

 

[Deleted member 13581]

Mine are 50%-front and 35%-rear Scott.

(Remember mine is light coming through. )

50%-front and 65%-rear if comparing to the guys above.

 

[ScottHmk4]

u rekon go with 50% F and 35% B, sounds about rite i think

 

[hon_n_gem]

whats the legal limit?!

 

[ScottHmk4]

dno m8, dnt think many people get them legal to be fair, just dont go to extreme to get noticed by the cops

 

[Elfman]

legal limit is anything on the back but only somthing like 15% on teh front, and remember they come with a standard slight tint anyway

 

[tasty_kebab]

I recommend 50% front and 35% rears

 

[MK8]

Legal is no film on the front AT ALL, you cant touch the fronts. But if I were you I would get 35% all round (as in lets in 35% of light in - dark tint) will look wiked. I have 35% at the back, and 50% at the front, wish i got 35% all round though.

 

[tasty_kebab]

Legal is no film on the front AT ALL, you cant touch the fronts.

Strathclyde Police told me personally that u can tint the front sides but only to 30%. They said tinting the windscreen at all was illegal. Anything goes on the rears.

 

[MK8]

Amendments to Legislation During the early part of 2004, Section 32 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations will be amended to include “Window Tint Films”, where such materials attached to the glass are capable of reducing the Visible Light Transmission of forward windows to below prescribed levels. These changes will be back-dated to become applicable from 1st January 2004.



This will effectively ban virtually all tinted films fitted to windows forward of the B-Post on any vehicle that is to be driven on UK roads.

Read somewhere else that most modern cars, like ours, come from the factory with some form of tint on the window, these are anywhere between 25-28% so even a clear film will push this past 30%.

The police man that told you that you are allowed upto 30% must not know cars come with tinted windows from the factory, which prooves its a minor thing, they dont even know the law!! Hence why i wish i went for darker even more illegal ones! haha.

 

[skahigh]

Strathclyde Police told me personally that u can tint the front sides but only to 30%. They said tinting the windscreen at all was illegal. Anything goes on the rears.

Thats true but you are forgetting that the windows don't allow 100% light through from the factory so the level of tint you can apply is significantly lower than 30%.

 

[MK8]

During the last 3-4 years the Glass and Glazing Federation (GGF) and other leading window film manufacturers have been putting forward their views, to obtain a clear definition on the law of window tinting. However, as of January 2004 the government has rewritten the law to incorporate a tint level of seventy percent visible light transmission on the front driver and passenger side windows.
Vehicles 10 years and older already have this level of tint is manufactured within the glass from the vehicle manufacturers. This means that if any window tinting company or manufacturer installs films to the front driver or passenger side windows or front quarter windows, they are in infringement of the law.

Most this information can be found on any good tinting companies website, or just google window tint uk law

 

[StuPDi]

i got 65% all round,
personally i think cars look odd with just the back or lighter tint at the front, but this is just my opinion.

had mine done by shadez tinting near Basildon. 1/3 of the price of all other quotes i was getting

Stu

 

[MK8]

I got mine from "tinter" in leicester for £100 for all five windows!! Bargain.