Window Tint

[j911brick]

FMCSA section 393.60
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[TD="width: 100%, colspan: 2"] Coloring or tinting of windshields and windows. Coloring or tinting of windshields and the windows to the immediate right and left of the driver is allowed, provided the parallel luminous transmittance through the colored or tinted glazing is not less than 70 percent of the light at normal incidence in those portions of the windshield or windows which are marked as having a parallel luminous transmittance of not less than 70 percent. The transmittance restriction does not apply to other windows on the commercial motor vehicle.[/TD]
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Link...http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regu...sr/fmcsrruletext.aspx?reg=393.60&keyword=Tint

I just found a 10 year old copy of the regs and it says the same thing, so its always been legal.

 

[Tim]

I just found a 10 year old copy of the regs and it says the same thing, so its always been legal.

Your reading it wrong. When windows come from them glass manufacture with 30% tint in them thats all you can put on. 100-30=70. The regs says

not less than 70 percent of the light at normal incidence

there for any tint you add to it will make it illegal.
BUT it that story the other poster posted is true then putting tint on is now legal but what that story fail to say was how dark the tint can be before its illegal.

 

[Tim]

Aye... but is that 70% *after.... or *including manufactured material light emitting values?

70% including manufactured material.

Funny... I can't see inside a LEO's car in Texas for all the "BLACK" where glass is sposta be.

The old saying comes to mind........."Do as I say, not as I do"

 

[Tim]

I want to be able to SEE when I'm driving and backing up.

In less then 3.3724 seconds I can have my door glass rolled down and that little inconvenience of having to roll a window down if I have to see better while backing up is nothing to the hours of the tint on my windows blocking out this desert sun light.

 

[Mike]

Troopers in Texas often carry a gauge. They set it over the glass and it gives the percentage.

Our trucks have been nailed many times in Texas.

 

[Tim]

Our trucks have been nailed many times in Texas.

Scuff law outfit.

 

[Marc Letourneau]

When the DOT starts giving guys a hard time about window tint, They should really find something more productive to do.

 

[j911brick]

I think I have this tint issue figured out.

You are allowed 70% VLT, and that has always been the law.

The lowest (lightest) tint available (at autozone, Pep Boys) is 35% VLT; which twice as dark as legally allowed.

70% VLT is virtually clear, or about what factory windows would be. So having a law that allows 70% VLT is virtually worthless and probably does little or nothing to reduce the risks of skin cancer. I would say that if a cop can see that you have (any) tint, then its too dark and you might get pulled over.

 

[Duck]

See a cop, ... roll the windows down.

 

[Tim]

I think I have this tint issue figured out.

You are allowed 70% VLT, and that has always been the law.

The lowest (lightest) tint available (at autozone, Pep Boys) is 35% VLT; which twice as dark as legally allowed.

70% VLT is virtually clear, or about what factory windows would be. So having a law that allows 70% VLT is virtually worthless and probably does little or nothing to reduce the risks of skin cancer. I would say that if a cop can see that you have (any) tint, then its too dark and you might get pulled over.

Now your getting it.
If you add 35% tint to a window that all ready has 30% built in that makes it 35%VLT.
Like I've said I have had tinted windows for years and only once was I checked and that was 2 years ago with this truck. These windows are dark, draker than I really cared for at the time and when the DOT put his light meter on them it showed 17%. He didnt write me a ticket nor make me pull it off, just wrote it up on the Insp report.

See a cop, ... roll the windows down.

Most of the time when I cross a set of scales thats what I do.

 

[Duck]

Most of the time when I cross a set of scales thats what I do.

One time I had a headlight out and knew about it. It had just gone out about 50 miles back, and I was headed to the yard.

DOT scales were open. Well, ... it's customary to kill your headlights & just leave the marker lights on when you pull onto a scale, right? I killed the lights as soon as I pulled off onto the ramp into the scale.