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11-22-2015, 05:49 PM | #1 |
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Busted for dark tint. Need good Charlotte tint shop for removal.
I got a $290 ticket today from the Concord, N.C. PD because the tint on my M4 is 40 percent, and therefore too dark for N.C. Apparently the legal standard is 35 percent. The previous owner tinted it.
I can avoid court costs if I have the tint removed in the next two weeks. Can you recommend a pro tint shop in the Charlotte area that I can trust to do this? Thanks.
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I think in TN it's something like 70% for the front windshield and 35% for all the others, so I had the front done at 70% and the rest of the car at 40%
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You guys are lucky. Here in Iowa, the laws are very restrictive in regards to tint. You can't have ANY tint on the front windshield and the darkest tint permitted on the front driver and passenger side windows is 70%. They used to allow up to 35% if you had a medical exemption signed by a physician but got rid of that a few years back and voided all pre-existing exemptions which was bullshit. Luckily you can tint the rear side windows and rear windshield as dark as your heart desires. But if a cop sees you with anything on that front glass, you're getting a citation every time. Thankfully it's only $100 and not the $200 like you have to put up with.
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11-22-2015, 07:50 PM | #5 |
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Okay, thanks for the info and the clarification on the terms.
All I know is that he pulled me over, asked me to roll the window up slightly, put an instrument an the edge of the glass, and it showed a .40. So that was that! The tint looks good on the car, no argument about that. But it's a little problematic at night. For example, under certain conditions, if I'm turning hard left through intersections, sometimes I have to roll the driver's window down slightly and look to make sure there's no one coming through the crosswalk I'm about to drive over. Anyway, I have no choice. I can either get rid of the existing tint in the next two weeks or pay the fine and risk getting tagged again. I don't intend to replace it with any other tint. Is it tough to come off? Does it risk scratching the glass? I can leave it on the rear glass no problem, but if I take it off the rear too am I risking destroying the heating elements? Thanks again.
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11-23-2015, 01:13 PM | #6 |
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Call this guys they will take care of it, ticket clinic $50-$75 1-844-529-8498 (Option #1)
BTW your state is .35 and your reading is 0.40 you can go and fight it your self and it will be dismiss |
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11-23-2015, 01:42 PM | #8 |
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Okay, thanks for the lead and the info.
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I get why cops don't want dark-tinted cars out there. You can imagine walking up to a tinted car in a traffic stop at night in the rain and not knowing what you're going to find. But I also expect them to know the law, which my cop did not. He's flat wrong about my .40 reading not being legal. But I have to spend time and money to prove that he doesn't know the tint laws. I suspect it's really a case of a cop trying to find some pretext for hassling an M car on a slow Sunday morning. Maybe I'm wrong.
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11-24-2015, 07:54 PM | #10 |
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Strongly recommend this tint shop
I was very impressed by Sunstoppers in Cornelius today.
They got the car in right away this morning, stripped out 5 windows worth of tint and glue in about 2 hours, cost $100. Very happy. I saw some of the other work they were doing, window tints and body wraps, all looks like first-class work on some pretty nice rolling stock. If you need work in this area, call Rob at Sunstoppers in Cornelius.
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