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    Talk about some bullshit.... im got off work tonight, and on the way home on south cobb drive, i get pulled over by three cop cars..... im like WTF??? when he gets to my car, he ask me how much % is my tint (of coarse im gonna play dumb and make believe i don't know)......... anywayz, so his little meter says 20%... after he writes the ticket, he comes back to me and say, "nice car man, what kinda engine work you got?"..... i looked at him like he was retarded, then he says, "Oh yea, your car is also to loud, but i won't give you a ticket for that today." What the hell is wrong with Smyrna Police?.......... and how much are the tickets usually?? and there is no way i can win if i go to court, is there?

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    tint tickets aren't bullshit..

    fyi, the tickets actually for the protection of the police. makes their job easier approaching a car, especially at night, to make sure the driver doesn't pull out a gun or try anything to jeopardize the officers lives..

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    lmk what the tint ticket is.


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    Oh snap!

    I *totally* forgot to pay my tint ticket! I better jump on that tomorrow.


    You know, I won't take my tint off. It's 5% all around, and I love my privacy. However, I ride around with the windows down alot, and my windows are always down, my lights turned on and my keys on my dash WHENEVER I get pulled over. I have to respect the need for safety, both the cop's and mine.

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    my tint ticket was like 70 bucks i think...in gwinnett county.

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    Quote Originally Posted by never_finished
    my tint ticket was like 70 bucks i think...in gwinnett county.
    I would expect it to be more,


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    I dunno how bad it's gonna be, but I think it was due a few weeks ago.

    I am sooo bad about crap like that. Non-moving violations don't really move me to action. In my defense, I tried to call for about 4 days straight to find out how much the ticket was going to be, and no one ever answered.
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    personally yes it is for their saftey, but at the same time, it is bullshit. he pulls you over JUST to check your tint? umm yeah.... DOUCHE!!!!! and the remark about the exhaust, thats just plain BS. I had the same crap happen to me in my 300zx, copped pulled me over saying , and I quote verbatim "OK Boy, you better find yourself a ride home cause you AINT got no insurance" well after much much talk, I finally convinced him to go back to his car and check my insurance after handing him my VALID CURRENT insurance card... seems cop computers are GHEY!!!! he called the insurance company and verified it. but he still wrote me a ticket for no registration cause my tag had expired, (car wouldnt pass emissions due to exh leak)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Senko
    personally yes it is for their saftey, but at the same time, it is bullshit. he pulls you over JUST to check your tint? umm yeah.... DOUCHE!!!!! and the remark about the exhaust, thats just plain BS. I had the same crap happen to me in my 300zx, copped pulled me over saying , and I quote verbatim "OK Boy, you better find yourself a ride home cause you AINT got no insurance" well after much much talk, I finally convinced him to go back to his car and check my insurance after handing him my VALID CURRENT insurance card... seems cop computers are GHEY!!!! he called the insurance company and verified it. but he still wrote me a ticket for no registration cause my tag had expired, (car wouldnt pass emissions due to exh leak)

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    well my 300zx was loud, and the cop obviously singled me out because of it, got behind me for a good bit, and was running my tag, then pulls me over after he finds something to throw at me.

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    i mean i understand why its for there safety, but if im just cruisin down the block.... is it that serious to pull someone over for tint........ i mean, he just drove past me, then bust a u turn...... i knew he was comin for me when i saw that

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    I had to pay $127 in Conyers last week for 15% tint on my windows. They said you can get a shop to take it off and get the shop to give you a letter stating that it was taken off and they would drop it to a warning.
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    hey what do you drive btw? cause there was a lexus in the parking lot late night last night getting pulled over for the same thing... BUSTED


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    sometimes the ticket is cheap. sometimes you can have it taken off and get a warning. and then sometimes (like my dads case) you pay the ticket, and have to have the tint remove, and show proof.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sticky
    i mean i understand why its for there safety, but if im just cruisin down the block.... is it that serious to pull someone over for tint........ i mean, he just drove past me, then bust a u turn...... i knew he was comin for me when i saw that

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    Quote Originally Posted by babygurl
    its all about quota!
    yep its the end of the month.

    luckily i dont drive very far to work and theres never any police on my way to work...the rest of the time my car is in the garage...i try not to drive much at the end of the month.

    i have had 3 tint tickets since i got it back in january 03..they were from..kennesaw city police, kennesaw state university police, and woodstock police...only the small town police departments care. i can sit next to a cobb county police officer all day long and they could give a flying fuck about my window tint.

    ive got 15% on the sides, 5% on the back window and 5% strip across the windshield...

    my roomate jay 1439/2000 got pulled over a few months ago and the officer tries to tell him that any tint on your windshield is illegal even a strip which is bullshit...then tests his tint, jays is legal 30%..the law is 30 + - 2%..well it read out as 29% and the officer started giving him BS about that too.

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    did you know your tint was below the percantage allowed for lawfull purposes?

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    My tint ticket for 5% was $145 in snellville. Cop tried to tell me it was 0% lol...he did the "put the license behind the window and look" test lol. Good job though he passed like 5 cars on a 2 way road just to pull me over lol. Hey I dont care like Miranda said "you gotta pay to play" sometimes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by B16a2 Civic
    did you know your tint was below the percantage allowed for lawfull purposes?

    isnt there are form that you can get signed by an eye DR. that if your eyes are sensitive to the sun that allows you to have illegal tint?
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    Quote Originally Posted by babygurl
    isnt there are form that you can get signed by an eye DR. that if your eyes are sensitive to the sun that allows you to have illegal tint?
    i dont know
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    usually tint is a fix it ticket, i got one, just go to court with a pic of your car with no tint, and they MIGHT throw it out

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    yes he was like you can get that knocked down or thrown out if you take your tint off...I said ok and 5 days later I go pay my ticket. THe lady was like you know you have the rest of the month to get your tint taken off...I said yes but I'd rather not worry about having to be at court on a certain day.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sloRSX
    yes he was like you can get that knocked down or thrown out if you take your tint off...I said ok and 5 days later I go pay my ticket. THe lady was like you know you have the rest of the month to get your tint taken off...I said yes but I'd rather not worry about having to be at court on a certain day.


    shit just get a pic of any car that resembles your car and take it in.

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    hmmm ..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sticky
    Talk about some bullshit.... im got off work tonight, and on the way home on south cobb drive, i get pulled over by three cop cars..... im like WTF??? when he gets to my car, he ask me how much % is my tint (of coarse im gonna play dumb and make believe i don't know)......... anywayz, so his little meter says 20%... after he writes the ticket, he comes back to me and say, "nice car man, what kinda engine work you got?"..... i looked at him like he was retarded, then he says, "Oh yea, your car is also to loud, but i won't give you a ticket for that today." What the hell is wrong with Smyrna Police?.......... and how much are the tickets usually?? and there is no way i can win if i go to court, is there?
    How do you expect to win if you have ILLEGAL tint? I mean, it's illegal...
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    i got a ticket for 3% tint in alpharetta and i had to show pics or a recipt showing i fixed it. i brought pics but felt like a dumbass after striping all my tint for the pics and the lady took one 3 second glance at the pic and dropped it down to a 25 dollar fine. i would have just printed a pic of the computer if i knew they barley looked at it and didnt even check to varify if it was my car.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by babygurl
    isnt there are form that you can get signed by an eye DR. that if your eyes are sensitive to the sun that allows you to have illegal tint?
    Yeah. That is what I am about to do soon. I can not afford (Well I do not want to) pay another $127.00 for BS.
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    get out of it NO aint gonna happen if it metered at 20% and the law is 28%net metter will not be off by that much.

    Tint ticket is more than a non-moving traffic violation it is a Misdemeanor and u "can get up to $1000 in fines and 1 year in jail" by definition.

    yes they will drop it to a warrning if you have it removed, from my experence.

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    the only thing that annoys me about the tint tickets is over half of the cop cars I have seen out there have 20% tint or darker on their own cruisers as well...my girlfriend got a tint ticket in Norcross a few years ago...$75...the only time I think you should get one is if you have it on your front windshield...I saw a car at the show last Saturday down at Turner...I believe it was Marlon's...I don't know how he avoids tickets with the dark tint accross the entire front windshield...kind of hard to tell what the driver is going to do if you can't see him...

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    Quote Originally Posted by nautiboi73
    get out of it NO aint gonna happen if it metered at 20% and the law is 28%net metter will not be off by that much.

    Tint ticket is more than a non-moving traffic violation it is a Misdemeanor and u "can get up to $1000 in fines and 1 year in jail" by definition.

    yes they will drop it to a warrning if you have it removed, from my experence.
    Law is 32%, if I remember correctly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SEAN
    the only thing that annoys me about the tint tickets is over half of the cop cars I have seen out there have 20% tint or darker on their own cruisers as well...my girlfriend got a tint ticket in Norcross a few years ago...$75...the only time I think you should get one is if you have it on your front windshield...I saw a car at the show last Saturday down at Turner...I believe it was Marlon's...I don't know how he avoids tickets with the dark tint accross the entire front windshield...kind of hard to tell what the driver is going to do if you can't see him...
    Read the Georgia code on tint laws. It will answer all of your questions/rants that you have in the post above. It sounds to me that you are uninformed. Educate yourself...
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    I don't see how the meter read 20%...glass naturally has a slight tint to it of 2 to 3+%. If it was 20% film then it should have read 17%, never seen 23-25% film

    Quote Originally Posted by SEAN
    the only thing that annoys me about the tint tickets is over half of the cop cars I have seen out there have 20% tint or darker on their own cruisers as well...my girlfriend got a tint ticket in Norcross a few years ago...$75...the only time I think you should get one is if you have it on your front windshield...I saw a car at the show last Saturday down at Turner...I believe it was Marlon's...I don't know how he avoids tickets with the dark tint accross the entire front windshield...kind of hard to tell what the driver is going to do if you can't see him...
    read the law, it does not apply to police vehicles.

    I saw an H2 with 20% all the way around...windshield too. I hate H2 pussy hummer's but it was hot just because of that. If i ever get a bug/beetle (old school/rwd that is) I WILL tint the windshield...i just want a light mirror all the way around

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    Originally posted by babygurl
    isnt there are form that you can get signed by an eye DR. that if your eyes are sensitive to the sun that allows you to have illegal tint?
    Yea, i believe the form is on the website.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BlkCD5
    Yea, i believe the form is on the website.
    For sensitive eyes/photophobia....know an eye doctor and get a letter from them

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruiner
    Law is 32%, if I remember correctly.
    32% with a 4% error... that's why he said "net".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Miranda
    You know, I won't take my tint off. It's 5% all around, and I love my privacy. However, I ride around with the windows down alot, and my windows are always down, my lights turned on and my keys on my dash WHENEVER I get pulled over. I have to respect the need for safety, both the cop's and mine.

    You gotta pay to play sometimes.
    Cops can still give you a ticket for illegal window tint... all they have to do is ask you to roll one of your front windows up a little bit after being stopped.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ct9a gsr
    Cops can still give you a ticket for illegal window tint... all they have to do is ask you to roll one of your front windows up a little bit after being stopped.
    she's just saying she has them down alot so they aren't even noticed as being dark but if she does get pulled over she has them down so they can see in....not saying she won't get a ticket, just that it helps them and they are more likely to let you go...i got pulled over every week by suwanee for my 17% tint...twice by the same cop because i changed wheels and he didn't recognize the car, lol...each time i was let go.

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    i guess i was just lucky with my integra... it was brite white (which made the tinting look a little darker against the white)... i got pulled over like 3 times and i never got a ticket for my tint, i had also blacked out my taillights. i had 5% all the way around. they never even said shit about it.

    look its not that hard to take a picture of another persons car that is the same year and color and no tint is it???

    but you may only get the one free

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    take it to court. if you take it off and show pics they will usually drop the fine.

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