Haha yeah it is awsome on those trips where the sun is right into your eyes. I think it looks better than those tint strips too because people really can't see in.

 

^^^^Good luck with that... If you get a ticket and take it to court the judge will laugh at you and tell to go to wal-mart and buy some sunglasses...after you pay the ticket fine + court costs.


B-rad, sorry to hear about your ticket, $190 that's expensive! Here in Florida it's only $113...still not cheap but it's a non-moving violation.

 

It blows man. Id have no problems paying the 190.00 if I thought I could go another year without getting another ticket for it.

 

i live in TX and i have a medical exemption from the state that allows me to have the darkest tint available on all my windows. go to the TXDPS web site and search around for tint exemption.

get a note from an eye doctor saying you have sensetive eyes, mail it in with a letter to the TXDPS, receive your exemption letter, and never worry about a tint ticket again. i have had my exemption for years and it expires when i die.

 

too bad FL sucks so bad because that exactly what i did down here in TX and i carry my exemption letter in my glove box.

 

Well I can try to get one made out. I would love to have that option avaliable. I wonder if my doctor will really go for it though.

 

I've got to get new front windows when I get back....

 

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I really do have sensitive eyes...especially after im too lazy to take my contacts out for a few days lol.

 

^x2. i leave my contacts in for days at a time.

 

Yup tint law blows but if you were a Police officer wouldn't you be doing the same thing, implementing the law?

I too got pulled over twice within 2 weeks and given 2 tickets despite I told the second officer that I had just left the auto repair shop and was heading home to remove my tint in order to clear the ticket.
He said, "the minute the officer wrote the ticked you should've removed it. Why didn't you do it!?"
I said because I was coming back home from a Northern CA trip when I was pulled over for having tinted windows.
After the ticket was issued I continued my drive back home when my truck broke down.
I manage to make it home and dropped off the truck at the dealer close to my house the minute I got home.
Here is the receipt officer, I just got the truck out.
That is no excuse, you should've stopped at a home depot or any other store and bought yourself a razor blade and removed the tint right then in there! He retorted. Then proceeded to right me another ticket and wrote it with TWO infractions:

1. Tinted windows

2. Failure to remove tint.

The first ticket I got signed off but the other one I went to court and explained to the judge what had happened. He asked "all I want to know is, did you remove the tint." Yes your honor I did remove the tint. "Do you have proof of that?" Yes your honor, here is the other ticket I had signed off by a police officer. "Dismissed, you are free to leave now." Thank you your honor.

The worst part of this ordeal was after the tint was removed. Man, for months I drove hiding behind the doors' center column cause I felt like everybody was looking at me! I kind of got over it though cause now I catch people with their mouths wide open twisting their neck all over the place to check out my truck.

 

i started wearing contacts when i was 10 because i raced MX. contacts deprive your eyes of oxygen which in turn make your eyes sensitive to light. combine that with the fact that i started wearing them too young, had the kind i slept in, and rarely ever took them out, i now have a condition called extreme photophobia. having dark tint is cool but having the condition is not. lucky for me i had the same eye doctor since i was 8 so he is well aware of the condition and had no problem writing me a script.

 

Well thats stupid. Officers that would waste all of that time and effort on something like that have to have a motive. You would have had to have made the guy angry or something for him to make that much of a deal about it. Honestly, I can think of a million different things that a police officer SHOULD be pulling people over and citing them for that I see on a DAILY basis on the road. I see cars that aren't even road worthy much less able to handle going 70mph on the highway. There really is no reason that my window tint causes any harm or anything even remotely negative towards anyone or anything. I am not a wreckless driver and I follow the law. Police officers may say that they need to see inside my vehicle for their safety's sake, but that isnt true. They have no need to pull me over, and therefore no necessity to see inside the confides of my vehicle. Should any officer pull me over, I have absolutely no problem letting any one of them search my vehicle should they feel it necessary because I have nothing to hide. When I was pulled over I put on my hazards, pulled over to the side of the road with my windows down and turned the vehicle off. No harm, no foul... The guy was probably just bored or maybe thought he could get something else out of me.

 

That's what I did haha

I got a tint waiver from the DMV, took the eye exam (I wear glasses when I drive anyway)..and I think he scribbled some made-up thing and signed it

 

man, that sounds just like me. I started wearing mine in the 4th grade. I wear my 2 week lenses for atleast a month maybe taking them out once or twice...I need to stop doing that ha...

 

Hey this works . I wear contacts too because of my astigmatism. I couldnt focus sometimes so they help, but I wear UV resistant lenses as is. Maybe that gives me even more of a reason to look into tint waiver. I have to go to the eye doctor mid this next week so I will ask him then