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[Gambit]

 Be the same for me So feel the pain got mine end of next month too.

[Jay762]

That is looking really sharp - have earmarked some grills for mine, going for black contrast against the silver

[rubix]

that will look nice jay, was going to go black but thought it might look a bit to black if there is such a thing, however not sure weather to go limo tint on the back sections or silver for windo tints. this is what i had done on my old wagon (THAT I REALLY MISS)

[Gambit]

I thought mirror tints was banned now. Friend of mine had to rip his out at the side of the road :(

[rubix]

IS IT??? i did not now that, even had it on the back window with a small gap at top... often wonderd when people get stopped for having it on the front side windows why they dont just roll the windows down instead of taken it off, just to **** the old bill off

[Gambit]

Yeah said its the glare it give's off. But just tried to look and can't find anything, and the police around my area sort of let you like my front's are to dark, but coppers have not stopped me so far, they seem ok to some people. But they stopped him as they said there banned in the UK.  I thought that's why I have never seen any since about 1990 :D

[Jay762]

didnt know that - I only thought it was to do with the amount of light that was blocked not what colour etc and they have a sensor to check that

[Gambit]

Can be as dark as you like on the back if there black tints front non at all but I have, and have had on 4 cars now ;)  (I'm a bad boy)   :D And was told the one way mirror/ silver tints was now banned. I could be wrong but not seen any for along while now the copper might have been having a real bad day and made him remove them there and then on his Xr2 :)

 

I know a window tint guy if I see him on Monday I will ask to double check.

[Jay762]

that would be useful to know, always good to know where you stand when dealing with the thin blue line ;)

[Gambit]

Well didn't see him today mind you I didn't see his Mrs either other wise I will ask her to pass the message on :D see what happens through out the week :)

[Gambit]

Right I finally got hold of him. He said 

The Police came to his bay asked him to stop doing them with mirror tints if he could and just do the black after 4 people was killed on the M6 when a lorry driver was blinded by the glare. He did say it's not against the law but less people will fit them now, and that it's mainly the back/rear window that is not done but rear door windows should be fine (I think it would look wrong that to me) He did say he think's you would run a small risk of being pulled with them but it's not against the law to have mirror tints :D

[Miggs]

as said it's not illegal just frowned upon due to the glare, with black you can go as dark as you like on the rear windows, the front door windows need to allow 70% light through, bear in mind if you get a 30% tint film it will take you over the legal limit as you have factory tints too, not sure on the percentage of factory tint on the impreza, the windscreen has to let 75% light through, this means you can cover a certain amount top or bottom with the touring car style strips if you want to, you could also put tint film on the whole windscreen provided it was light enough

 

if you get pulled and asked to remove it at the side of the road as them to prove it's too dark, afaik only traffic police have the gizmos to check and een then it's not all of them, they can't force you to remove it there and then they can just give you a producer style ticket to go to the mot station and get it stamped to say the fronts are now legal, i had very dark smoke tints on the fronts when i bought it and as i had a few other illegal mods i didn't want to be noticed so much with the front tints so i removed them

[Miggs]

here you go

 

https://www.gov.uk/tinted-vehicle-window-rules

 

as it says you can be given a prohibition notice not to use the car BUT this is only if the tints have been correctly measured

[Gambit]

I don't care what that site says :) they will ask you to rip them out at the side of the road :D

[Miggs]

i don't take no !Removed! of coppers, i know my rights and i know the law, sometimes more than the officers, i have been pulled numerous times for doing illegal things, each time driven away with nothing but a !Removed! off copper in my rear view, it pays to know what you can and can't get away with, simple things like your response when you get pulled, when the copper asks, do you know why i pulled you over, this usually means he has no proof of what you were doing and is relying on you admitting to what you did, just say you don't know and you can usually get away with it, if it's not a traffic car they don't have a calibrated speedo so can't prove what your actual speed was, nor is there a camera to record your actions

[Jay762]

its true, knowing your rights and not admitting anything is a good foundation if you are going to push the limits

[Gambit]

Touch wood I have only ever got pulled once and that was for my !Removed! head mate sat in the back of the Escort in the middle leaning forward between the 2 front seat's talking to me and another lad. We got pulled over for that and my mate went and told them I didn't have my belt on either the !Removed! :) It was £25 on the spot fine then.

And I've always said I will argue until I know I have no choice but to do as I'm told :D 

[Miggs]

it helps if you have a friend or 2 who are police officers, especially one you've had telling you all the details through his training, especially at the end when he says "all the stuff i told you, don't ever repeat it, we aren't allowed to tell anyone"  er...ok mate my lips are sealed ^_^

[Gambit]

Yep as you do 

 

I do have one friend who is a copper I  do speak to him if I need to he will advice me on something's. But he lives in Wales now so don't speak to him much other then Facebook 

[Miggs]

did you know that even if a copper is in uniform, if you ask them for their warrant card and they don't produce it then there's bugger all they can do to you, basically you can walk away from whatever you have been accused of doing

[Gambit]

Nope But surely it's more fun to run off like you have done something 1st just for the chase :D

[Miggs]

I did that once back in my youth, back then coppers would give you a slap to teach you a lesson, there was 8 of us walking across the estate where I lived then, it was a rough estate too, still is, we saw this copper stop in the middle of the road and watching us, we all decided we were gonna leg it, as soon as we got round the corner we just acted normal, what we didn't realise is he was a dog patrol, the dog come barrelling round the corner off the lead, luckily it didn't know who to attack so just kept barking at all of us and kinda running back and forth, this copper come round and gave us a bollocking saying it was lucky he had the dog or he'd of twatted us all, we just laughed at him, we got a bollocking and checked on the pnc but nowt else, was funny as though

[Gambit]

Oh we to run from them all the time. Even when we was on our motorcross bikes I once went past the local police station on the back wheel while the police had some ceremony thing going on  all stood around at the front :D 

Yes I was a little !Removed! ;)