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Dealing with window tint laws in NC is such a pain. Ceramic window tint does wonders where we got the hot, burning sun and tropical weather.
From your experience, are many places checking window tinting on the front windshield with their devices or not? Nobody used to at all before for the front. I'm talking about the 50-70% super light tint that mainly is for blocking out UV rays and not to "look dark."
Also, I went to a dealer in the Autopark Cary area who charged me the usual $30 inspection fee plus a $10 "surcharge to check window tint." Is that new or this dealer is just trying to nickel and dime me? So for 23 years living in NC, I've never had to deal with this. Charge me $10 for pointing a device at my window and check the reading.
Lastly, any good inspection stations where "sometimes" they don't care about the 35% front window law?
Tinting windows is great for hiding what is going on in the vehicle. Texting, sending emails by phone, drinking beer or whiskey, anything you want to hide. Plus it keeps other drivers from seeing through to the car ahead of you to help with their driving awareness.
So yeah tint your windows.
At least you claim you had a “light tint”. But it needs to be checked so heavy tinting doesn’t become the norm.
Checking aftermarket window tint and the $10 fee are required by law and have been for quite some time. I guess you’ve lucked out with your previous inspections that didn’t check it.
Tinting windows is great for hiding what is going on in the vehicle. Texting, sending emails by phone, drinking beer or whiskey, anything you want to hide. Plus it keeps other drivers from seeing through to the car ahead of you to help with their driving awareness.
So yeah tint your windows.
At least you claim you had a “light tint”. But it needs to be checked so heavy tinting doesn’t become the norm.
The light tint 50-70% is for the front windshield. All other windows I do 35%, the NC maximum allowed.
If it's an SUV or truck, it's great because you are allowed to tint all the back windows super dark as long as the front ones are 35%. Tinting the back windows 20% or darker makes the front ones look dark also, but able to pass inspection. Small crossovers these days all count as "SUVs."
Tinting windows is great for hiding what is going on in the vehicle. Texting, sending emails by phone, drinking beer or whiskey, anything you want to hide. Plus it keeps other drivers from seeing through to the car ahead of you to help with their driving awareness.
So yeah tint your windows.
At least you claim you had a “light tint”. But it needs to be checked so heavy tinting doesn’t become the norm.
Lol this is silly. Look at all the enormous suvs being driven by distracted Cary soccer moms that come completely blacked out from the factory except the front windows. I guess they don’t care about what goes on in the other 80% of the car?
Lol this is silly. Look at all the enormous suvs being driven by distracted Cary soccer moms that come completely blacked out from the factory except the front windows. I guess they don’t care about what goes on in the other 80% of the car?
It is legal though, on a truck/suv only the front 2 windows have to be 32%+, behind that, they can be as dark as you want. It is an interesting law for sure.
I meant to say, other places do check my tint as required by law, but never been charged $10 extra just for that stupid device.
That's a normal fee to inspect window tinting. I've lived in the Triangle area for 16 years now and have had multiple cars with window tint inspected at multiple places and every single one of them charged me the $10 fee for the window tint inspection. You must have gotten lucky.
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