Sunshield Suggestions?***Updated post #25

[Bowtie2Sierra]

That makes me proud.

Hell, in the summer we will throw ours when we go out for dinner or really anytime we get out of the car for more than 10 minutes.

My wife is trained well. I grab my end and she gets her end. It takes all of 2 seconds.

 

[Carolinaboy]

Yep the UV and heat is what I'm worried about. Especially down here!

 

[Bowtie2Sierra]

Yep, you have it worse than we do for sure.

 

[Carolinaboy]

Well I have been using this thing for over a month. I would say it is well worth the roughly $50 I spent on it. I use it everyday, and actually put it up at night too if I won't be driving first thing in the morning.

Right now, by 9am it is in the high 70s to mid 80s. It is well made and that makes it much easier taking it down and putting it up all the time. All in all a very well made product!

Thanks to Matt (Bowtie2Sierra) for the suggestion!

 

[That Crazy Squirrel]

Re: Sunshield Suggestions?

Planning on getting 35% tint on the WS too. Thinking about going 5% tint all the way around too

AFAIK (and I could very well be wrong) that's illegal in every state.

Side windows, that's different, but the actual front windshield... that's a different story.

 

[Carolinaboy]

Yep, but I honestly don't care.

Had a buddy that had 15% on his truck and never had a problem for years. Cops around here could care less about tint unless they are just looking for something to stack on charges

 

[That Crazy Squirrel]

I know a cop in NYC, unless she's retired by now, who would love you.

She was as anti-tint as they come, because she once got shot at by a guy in a back seat, behind tint, that she didn't see. After that she went on a tint vendetta.

And you did not want to argue with her over getting the ticket. My brother (NYPD Auto Crimes detective, retired now) told me about one stop she made that went like this...

"The tint on your windows is illegal. You're getting a summons for it."

"Aw, give me a break, everybody has tint!"

"Now you're getting a separate summons for each window that's tinted."

"What? You can't do that! I'll have your badge!"

"Well, if you could prove that it was a legal level of tint..."

"Yeah, yeah! It's legal, I swear!"

"But I don't see the required stickers showing the tint level. So we'll have to test it."

"Okay, go ahead and test it."

"Alright sir, give me the keys."

"The keys? What do you need the keys for?"

"Well, to test it I have to impound it. The police lab will test it and we'll go from there. Shouldn't take more than six to eight months for them to get to it."

"What? You can't take my car for six to eight months! How will I get to work?"

"Well, if you want to claim it's legal tint so I won't write the summonses, it will have to be tested."

(I should note here that the fine was $250... each summons. 6 Windows, $1,500 in fines the guy was looking at.)

"You don't have any other way to test it?"

"No... well, maybe... Would you object if I took a small sample of the tint from each window for testing?"

"How big a sample?"

"Oh, not big. Less than half an inch."

"Oh, sure, go right ahead!"

Officer takes out her baton and smashes out the back window, reaches in and picks up a few pebbles of the broken glass... "That's one sample..."

The guy was then more than happy to get the 6 tickets.

I have no idea if this is true or not, or if it was embellished in the telling, but my brother told it to me and I heard it from other detectives in his squad at other times.

 

[Carolinaboy]

Yeah, I don't live up in those states for that reason.......

 

[BlueCollarPilot]

Around here it's not so much the Law calling you on it, as it is getting an inspection sticker every year. I've been sliding by at the shop I take our vehicles, but most inspectors now put the meter on it and give you a big fail if it's 1% too dark. They get a pretty good fine for passing illegal tint.

 

[NoMoney]

I know a cop in NYC, unless she's retired by now, who would love you.

She was as anti-tint as they come, because she once got shot at by a guy in a back seat, behind tint, that she didn't see. After that she went on a tint vendetta.

And you did not want to argue with her over getting the ticket. My brother (NYPD Auto Crimes detective, retired now) told me about one stop she made that went like this...

"The tint on your windows is illegal. You're getting a summons for it."

"Aw, give me a break, everybody has tint!"

"Now you're getting a separate summons for each window that's tinted."

"What? You can't do that! I'll have your badge!"

"Well, if you could prove that it was a legal level of tint..."

"Yeah, yeah! It's legal, I swear!"

"But I don't see the required stickers showing the tint level. So we'll have to test it."

"Okay, go ahead and test it."

"Alright sir, give me the keys."

"The keys? What do you need the keys for?"

"Well, to test it I have to impound it. The police lab will test it and we'll go from there. Shouldn't take more than six to eight months for them to get to it."

"What? You can't take my car for six to eight months! How will I get to work?"

"Well, if you want to claim it's legal tint so I won't write the summonses, it will have to be tested."

(I should note here that the fine was $250... each summons. 6 Windows, $1,500 in fines the guy was looking at.)

"You don't have any other way to test it?"

"No... well, maybe... Would you object if I took a small sample of the tint from each window for testing?"

"How big a sample?"

"Oh, not big. Less than half an inch."

"Oh, sure, go right ahead!"

Officer takes out her baton and smashes out the back window, reaches in and picks up a few pebbles of the broken glass... "That's one sample..."

The guy was then more than happy to get the 6 tickets.

I have no idea if this is true or not, or if it was embellished in the telling, but my brother told it to me and I heard it from other detectives in his squad at other times.

Yeah police intimidation and harassment thats pretty funny man. Fuckin commie bastards