BTW...I'll take 50% of the money you save from fix it or real tickets. PM me for my paypal information.

Hooman

 

I'd be interested to hear who you blame, LOL.. You're the one with the ticket. Your opinion and the opinion of 1.2 billion people, much less a few people here, don't mean dick when your opinion runs contrary to the law.

It's okay to break the law because I have people who support me when I do it? That's odd logic.

No one ever told you had to like the law, they only told you you had to comply with it. You agreed to abide when you got your license from the state. I doubt there were conditions attached.

Three choices:

1 - comply with the law
2 - knowingly don't comply with the law and pay the tickets/consequences as they come
3 - move to a state where you can paint your windows black if you want to

It's really not that hard. You want to continue to do something that you know is going to cause you problems - it doesn't seem like there is an easy fix to me.

 

Something like this is probably doable. If you went this way I'd specifically have the doctor state the levels of tint required and on which windows the tint needs to be applied on. If you ever get hassled and have to go to court you can present your tint paperwork with the letter from the doctor and the judge should dismiss the charges. In a perfect world.

The again, the judge may find you unfit to drive (inabiility to comply with state law) and take your license. Weirder things have happened.

 

You can have tint as dark as you want anywhere except the windshield and the front side windows. Front side windows max is 70% in Cali, which is what the factory standard tint is.

I drove for years with a tint all around and no front plate and never got a ticket. Doesn't mean that you won't get one tomorrow if you do the same thing.

 

Straight from the CA Vehicle Code.

Material Obstructing or Reducing Driver's View

26708. (a) (1) No person shall drive any motor vehicle with any object or material placed, displayed, installed, affixed, or applied upon the windshield or side or rear windows.

(2) No person shall drive any motor vehicle with any object or material placed, displayed, installed, affixed, or applied in or upon the vehicle which obstructs or reduces the driver's clear view through the windshield or side windows.

(3) This subdivision applies to a person driving a motor vehicle with the driver's clear vision through the windshield, or side or rear windows, obstructed by snow or ice.

(b) This section does not apply to any of the following:

(1) Rearview mirrors.

(2) Adjustable nontransparent sunvisors which are mounted forward of the side windows and are not attached to the glass.

(3) Signs, stickers, or other materials which are displayed in a 7-inch square in the lower corner of the windshield farthest removed from the driver, signs, stickers, or other materials which are displayed in a 7-inch square in the lower corner of the rear window farthest removed from the driver, or signs, stickers, or other materials which are displayed in a 5-inch square in the lower corner of the windshield nearest the driver.

(4) Side windows which are to the rear of the driver.

(5) Direction, destination, or termini signs upon a passenger common carrier motor vehicle or a schoolbus, if those signs do not interfere with the driver's clear view of approaching traffic.

(6) Rear window wiper motor.

(7) Rear trunk lid handle or hinges.

(8) The rear window or windows, when the motor vehicle is equipped with outside mirrors on both the left- and right-hand sides of the vehicle that are so located as to reflect to the driver a view of the highway through each mirror for a distance of at least 200 feet to the rear of the vehicle.

(9) A clear, transparent lens affixed to the side window opposite the driver on a vehicle greater than 80 inches in width and which occupies an area not exceeding 50 square inches of the lowest corner toward the rear of that window and which provides the driver with a wide-angle view through the lens.

(10) Sun screening devices meeting the requirements of Section 26708.2 installed on the side windows on either side of the vehicle's front seat, if the driver or a passenger in the front seat has in his or her possession a letter or other document signed by a licensed physician and surgeon certifying that the person must be shaded from the sun due to a medical condition, or has in his or her possession a letter or other document signed by a licensed optometrist certifying that the person must be shaded from the sun due to a visual condition. The devices authorized by this paragraph shall not be used during darkness.

(11) An electronic communication device affixed to the center uppermost portion of the interior of a windshield within an area that is not greater than 5 inches square, if the device provides either of the following:

(A) The capability for enforcement facilities of the Department of the California Highway Patrol to communicate with a vehicle equipped with the device.

(B) The capability for electronic toll and traffic management on public or private roads or facilities.

(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), transparent material may be installed, affixed, or applied to the topmost portion of the windshield if the following conditions apply:

(1) The bottom edge of the material is at least 29 inches above the undepressed driver's seat when measured from a point 5 inches in front of the bottom of the backrest with the driver's seat in its rearmost and lowermost position with the vehicle on a level surface.

(2) The material is not red or amber in color.

(3) There is no opaque lettering on the material and any other lettering does not affect primary colors or distort vision through the windshield.

(4) The material does not reflect sunlight or headlight glare into the eyes of occupants of oncoming or following vehicles to any greater extent than the windshield without the material.

(d) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), clear, colorless, and transparent material may be installed, affixed, or applied to the front side windows, located to the immediate left and right of the front seat if the following conditions are met:

(1) The material has a minimum visible light transmittance of 88 percent.

(2) The window glazing with the material applied meets all requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 205 (49 C.F.R. 571.205), including the specified minimum light transmittance of 70 percent and the abrasion resistance of AS-14 glazing, as specified in that federal standard.

(3) The material is designed and manufactured to enhance the ability of the existing window glass to block the sun's harmful ultraviolet A rays.

(4) The driver has in his or her possession, or within the vehicle, a certificate signed by the installing company certifying that the windows with the material installed meet the requirements of this subdivision and identifies the installing company and the material's manufacturer by full name and street address, or, if the material was installed by the vehicle owner, a certificate signed by the material's manufacturer certifying that the windows with the material installed according to manufacturer's instructions meets the requirements of this subdivision and identifies the material's manufacturer by full name and street address.

(5) If the material described in this subdivision tears or bubbles, or is otherwise worn to prohibit clear vision, it shall be removed or replaced.

Amended Sec. 77, Ch. 1154, Stats. 1996. Effective September 30, 1996.
Amended Sec. 1, Ch. 476, Stats. 1998. Effective January 1, 1999.

 

^^^^^ So, in after all that I am assuming it's illegal to have my back window tinted? Great!!!!

 

As long as you have both side-view mirrors. You can also do side windows behind the driver's seat.

http://www.chp.ca.gov/html/streetlegal.html

Check out the bottom of the page..! FTBC is not a crime!! Haha!

 

Reading this sounds like the ability to use the 'fair-skin, sensitive-eyes, doctor's note' excuse is only going to be good in the day time - depending on the cop and what he knows about the Code.

 

they DO, I try that when I got pull over for it, he said it must be able to remove during night time...that excuse doesnt work...

 

Eldy, you provided the "official" law. My guess is that the true reason for preventing dark tint is that the Cop wants to see what you are doing when approaching your car...

 

Exactly.. Ya think?

 

I wonder if we would be breaking any laws by driving around with a ski mask on all the time.

 

as long as the eyes are open...why not. You're not hindering your view.

Hooman

 

Good guess.

 

Once you're pulled over you should have all the windows down, interior lights on (if it's dark outside), engine off, keys dropped outside the vehicle, and hands in plain sight.