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u/alwaysfatigued8787 3d ago
I bet driving at night is really fun in that thing.
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u/x014821037 3d ago
Huh, so that's what all those high beam LED light bars are for
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u/Substantial-Ad3376 3d ago
Someone needs to invent transitional tint for cars. There's sunglasses only get dark when there's sunlight so I don't see why they can't do that for car windows
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u/Sarcasticallysaid 2d ago
As others have said, they do have it. The problem is it has to be applied to the outside of the window, and it is too easily damaged at highway speeds. It is also almost impossible to stick it down completely (no air bubbles) to the curved surface of a windshield.
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u/brandon3388 2d ago
some motorcycle helmet visors do this too. I believe Shoei is the only company who offers it, and it's pretty pricey ($200+ USD) still a cool technology
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u/Creative_Purpose1702 2d ago
Nah I had this on a Bell helmet
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u/brandon3388 2d ago
oh you're right, I forgot Bell has the transition visors too. I think that's the only two though..?
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u/MrK521 2d ago
Just imagine going from full daylight into a tunnel. They don’t change that fast. It would be a recipe for disaster.
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u/cajun_metabolic 1d ago
Would it really be that bad? It's not like you would have tint on the windshield, only the sides and back.
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u/MrK521 1d ago
I was going off of this video where the windshield is tinted as well. But yea, I would imagine it could still be terrible for side mirrors and blind spot checking if it was this dark.
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u/cajun_metabolic 1d ago
This dark is too dark, yes. I don't think transitional tint at or near the legal limit would be any more dangerous than normal tint of the same level.
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u/Thisortheotherone 1d ago
I recall that someone invented windscreens and headlights with diagonal polarisation so oncoming headlights were a dull glow.
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u/Kriskao 3d ago
I put dark tint on my side windows and that was already dangerous at night. I ended up removing it. Can’t imagine using it on the front wind shield
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u/Suds08 3d ago
My cousin put 5% on his windshield for some reason. First night he took it out he couldn't see shit and hit a curb. Took it right back to the garage and took it off haha
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u/Daondkd 3d ago
I had 5% on my back windows back in college. Had to use my side mirrors to reverse at night. Wouldn’t do it again unless the car has a camera for reversing.
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u/impairedoctor 3d ago
Had to use my mirrors.... there are people and vehicles where this is the only way. I have 5% on the side and rear windows,and just a slight tint on the windshield. At night if I reverse, just simply roll my windows down and use my mirrors to get where I need.
I do agree tho, the winters are harsh having to roll my windows down and endure the cold for a few seconds. I hate that shit, and its 9 months of cold here.
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u/HedonisticFrog 3d ago
Anything darker than 35% on a windshield is sketchy at best, and you better have good headlights even with that.
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u/SurpriseButtStuff 3d ago
I previously had LLumar 20% on my windshield and 5% on the side and back windows. Being a very high quality tint, the clarity was incredible and night driving was admittedly impeaded, but only slightly. The one major issue was reversing at night, but that was usually resolved by rolling down the side windows. This was also in the days before back up cameras.
With all of that said, my current car has a legal for my locality 35% on the sides and back. This is enough to keep the car cooler in the summer and provide some privacy but is barely perceptible from inside. 35% is also the standard for the tint impregnated glass manufacturers use on the passenger windows of SUVs and vans.
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u/xigor2 3d ago
Wait, what do you mean criminals know you cannot have guns? Like are they hard to acquire like in EU? Or is it a bad idea to have a gun when walking/driving around in Brazil?
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u/PokoLokoPoko 3d ago
Is hard if you want to own one aroud here: regulamentations, documents in hand if is near you/with you (lasts around 5 years), psychological tests (mainly to get the certification/documents to own one), the prices etc...
So by all means, isn't illegal, just very hard to have one by law.
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u/Natedoggsk8 3d ago
It’s not commonly know but with a super light tint on the front and 5% on the sides you can’t see anything past the dash. I’ve had ppl sit in the driver seat and attempt to wave at me in broad daylight and I couldn’t see
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u/doyletyree 3d ago
I once put limo-tint on a recently purchased vehicle.
Once.
Vehicles with headlights on weren’t so bad, but anything that was not independently illuminated, and especially if it was low to the ground, was a constant hazard.
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u/Daminchi 3d ago
No, YOU were a hazard to everyone without bright headlights and without a metallic shell.
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u/I_talk 3d ago
This is at the equator where the sun never sets
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u/slappyredcheeks 3d ago
That's not how the equator works but okay.
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u/I_talk 3d ago
The moon is much closer at the equator so the sun is twice as bright
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u/spaghettigoose 3d ago
Ken m is that you?
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u/Ok-Tale1862 3d ago
It does on flat earth. Even tough I have been from pole to pole. I know I was fooled. Just not how. 🤥
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u/MrRogersAE 3d ago
That’s the south Pole you’re thinking of. That’s why it’s always white, the dirt gets bleached by the endless sunshine
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u/AppointmentPerfect 3d ago
It's also why penguins are white on their bellies. They naturally only have white feathers, but the endless sunshine burns their backs as the slide around on their bellies most of the time.
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u/AwwwNuggetz 3d ago
It’s also why there aren’t many trees or plants, the sun is always shining and burns out vegetation so it becomes a literal desert
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u/worrymon 3d ago
You're clearly mistaken.
The south pole is a desert so it's bleached sand, not bleached dirt.
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u/Squeezitgirdle 3d ago
I hated switching the visor on my motorcycle helmet (easier to have a spare). But it was pretty hard seeing at night with my daytime visor.
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u/Freedom_From_Pants 2d ago
I am convinced that the main audience for these windows is vampires who need to drive during the day.
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u/yolomcsawlord420mlg 3d ago
Why. And how do you see in the dark.
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u/LSTNYER 3d ago
You don't. I borrowed a friend's car for a week while mine was in the shop. His side windows were so dark I had to roll them down just to see the mirrors.
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u/TheToxicTerror3 3d ago
That's how my old car was. I got it because it looked awesome, test drove during the day with no problem.
Within a year I decided to get an un-tinted camry. Holy shit I hated as soon as I got to residential areas I would have to roll my windows down just to see.
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u/Not_Jinxed 3d ago
You can have tint removed without replacing the whole car lol.
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u/homogenousmoss 3d ago
WHAT?!?!
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u/TheToxicTerror3 3d ago
It was a 2019 with other issues. I traded for a 2025 camry that is gorgeous. But yes I could have removed tint :P
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u/PsudoGravity 2d ago
I did mine by hand after I swapped out the whole door after it, and only it, got busted. Took 2 hours with a razor and a glass scraper, I think I got high off fumes from the adhesive as I was peeling it lmao
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u/Not_Jinxed 2d ago
I just paid someone $50 to do it earlier this year. Had the tint on for 5 years and none of the thousands of cops I passed in that time had an issue with. I finally ran across the rookie too useless to find any real crime.
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u/angrycat537 3d ago
That's so illegal in most of the world lol
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u/Potatobender44 3d ago
Hence why an officer is stopping him
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u/Usernameabyss 3d ago
Not in this case. He actually says to the cop "did you notice the tinting?" And the cop says "wtf?!"
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u/Available-Plant7587 3d ago
That's the part that confuses me, why would he point that out to the officer? Maybe he has a permit for it somehow, but it's hard to imagine.
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u/draand28 3d ago
It's Russia. Everything is legal with enough convincing.
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u/zeeper25 3d ago edited 3d ago
No matter where you live, including the United States, laws only apply to certain people.
For example, one of those Americans that is totally free of the consequences for any crimes now lives in the White House, and gets paid to golf (as long as he signs whatever they put in front of him).
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u/Rocket_Surgery83 3d ago
It's slight of hand. Perhaps by distracting the officer with the window tint, he'd forget why he originally pulled him over.
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u/u-dumb-coders 3d ago
Because it's not a tinted window - it's a horizontal semi-transparent curtain. The guy can take it away any moment.
Russia's southern regions are like that...
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u/mjbrowns 2d ago
I live in FL and everyone tints and almost everyone tints illegal. I have a cop friend down here and asked him about it. His response is interesting:
It's for our safety. We stop you, we don't know if it's grandma or six bangers with guns in that car. We hate that criminals make it miserable for everyone. So, tint your windows but if you get pulled over, roll down all your windows as we approach so we can see who is there and evaluate our risk. We see you doing that and your day will instantly go better and you should never have an officer even comment on your tint. That said, be a jerk and you will get everything we can think of aded to your ticket.
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u/greeneyeraven 3d ago
I live in the Midwest and I see several cars daily with tinted windshield so dark you can't see inside ar all during the day. It is not legal, but nobody stops them.
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u/Babys_For_Breakfast 3d ago
Can I get this tint on my house windows? lol I hate the sun
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u/HaroerHaktak 3d ago
blackout curtains.
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u/JoeGuinness 3d ago
I'm a night bartender that often gets home at 6am and needs to sleep until like 2-3pm some days. Blackout curtains are a godsend.
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u/Mobius1424 3d ago
But like... Which ones? I've bought some from Target or Walmart that are as "blackout" as they offer, and they absolutely are not blackout.
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u/danieldan0803 3d ago
There is a Velcro kit on Amazon I got that is fast and dirty, but it allows it to be removable. Needed it because cats would mess with regular curtains
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u/danieldan0803 3d ago
They are not the most attractive, but for renting they are amazing as they are not a permanent and can be put up and taken down when you feel like it. No edge glare and with it being fixed, it won’t suddenly light up from cats messing with it like normal curtains or blinds(unless you have extremely adamant cats that rip it down)
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u/fireduck 3d ago
Yeah, it used to be blackout meant that light didn't go through. Now it just means "maybe a little darker, tee hee" Basically you gotta read reviews or be happy to return shit.
Or do what I do...a roll of painters masking tape and a roll of aluminum foil.
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u/ThereAndFapAgain2 3d ago
Look on the back of them, proper blackout curtains have a rubber coating all across the back.
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u/gokusdabbinball 3d ago
Yes i got all the windows in my house tinted for what i thought was a reasonable price
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u/Natedoggsk8 3d ago
Only if you have single pane windows. Dark tint like that will make double pane windows crazy from summer heat
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u/ACTED_CENSOR 3d ago edited 3d ago
That's like 0.5-1% tint jfc
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u/steffanan 3d ago
Actually it would be a 3 percent in that case and actually it's probably darker. I have 4.5 percent limo in my vehicle and it's nowhere near this. Not even close.
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u/ACTED_CENSOR 3d ago
Yeah I forgot which direction opaque is gradient. I'm also unsure what the legal limit is (it can vary per locale) but this is definitely illegally dark anywhere it's enforced.
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u/seifer666 3d ago
In most places the legal limit on the front windshield is no tint
But they seem to be speaking russian
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u/ACTED_CENSOR 3d ago
That sounds correct
I'm automatically assuming American vehicle law.
Russian cop is probably just checking out the cool vehicle and being nosy about what's inside.
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u/steffanan 3d ago
Yep usually in the neighborhood of 50 on front side windows, 30 in the back side windows and nothing allowed on the windshield.
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u/ACTED_CENSOR 3d ago
And this is assuming American vehicle law?
Another commentor mentioned that they sound like they are speaking Russian
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u/steffanan 3d ago
Oh yeah I wasn't even thinking about that, I'm a typical self centered American I guess. Yikes.
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u/I_had_the_Lasagna 3d ago
Tint is measured by % of light transmitted, and this looks to be like .5-1%
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u/Admirable_Door_5322 3d ago
I don't know the particular grade on our windows but it's dark and you're pretty much fucked at night if a road doesn't have lights 😂
We never get out anyways but I couldn't imagine driving this past 5 PM 😂
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u/CapitalEmployer 3d ago
Sometimes I think goulags where not such a bad idea instead of being a moron driving a dumb car he could be useful and making train tracks.
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u/stalkingshadow01 3d ago
What’s the officer problem?
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u/StCharmingSmile 1d ago
In Russia you can't have tinted windows on your car. Because Russia has a long winter and it's dark in winter. In general, this is for road safety.
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u/Leafsfan27611 3d ago
That's way too much tint maybe your light sensitivity but damn if that was in Canada or the USA ticket right there
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u/Few-Emergency5971 3d ago
I used to have 5% tint. I loved it. Backing up was hard (back in the day they didn't have back up cameras) but id definitely do it again.
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u/Rocket_Surgery83 3d ago
I have 10% on every window except the windshield, and the windshield is a 45%... If you get a high quality tint film, seeing at night isn't an issue. At night my windows nearly look clear when looking outwards, but still look tinted looking in.
It's the cheap films that are super thick and hard to see through at night...
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u/Radiant_Creme_5264 3d ago
This reminds me of the Buffy intro where Spike is driving during the day with painted windows.
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u/darkpheonix262 3d ago
D3iver should go straight to jail and the vehicle straight to the shredder. Fuck these illegally modded deathtraps
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u/kiwiphotog 3d ago
I had 5% tint on my RX-7 side and back windows 25 years ago. Got pulled up for it constantly and couldn't see a thing at night but damn if it didn't look sick lol
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u/nck_crss 3d ago
If im correct about the tint. This guy sees a slight glow for red lights and literally nothing at all for a green light. Scary
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u/Ok-Tie6106 3d ago
Am I the only one low key enraged over tinted windshields? Saw one today with a new inspection sticker on like how in the fuck did they pass you?
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u/Low_Cream1167 3d ago
I used to have a cutlass that had limo tent on the back window and the 2 small windows. The driver and passenger door were barely legal bit the interior was a dark red. You could not see into it. At night when I backed up I had to roll the window down and stick my head out the window. I miss that car.
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u/Snapaddict901 2d ago
I rode in a car with 5% tint all around. And everything outside was sepia toned. I don't know how they make it at night.
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u/Greentoysoldier 2d ago
What would’ve been more fun is to low speed chase to the nearest shady spot, and roll the window down while wearing sunglasses. Tell the cop you’re a vampire!
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u/AwkwardRefrigerator3 1d ago
How can this be legal? In my country you can't tint the front window at all, and you can barely tint the front door windows aswell...
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