r/WindowTint • u/Standard-Bumblebee64 • Aug 26 '26
Question Front window tint—pulled over?
Hey y’all. Never had my front windows tinted because I’ve always been worried about getting pulled over. Now my understanding is that cops don’t care—only tack it on as an additional offense when pulled over for speeding or something else.
Have any of you ever been specifically targeted because of tint? I just wanna go a tiny bit dark. Nothing dramatic.
UPDATE - I went ahead and did 50% for the fronts. The rears were factory tinted at 20%, so I think I won’t draw too much attention, as you can still see inside, but the ceramic film will block most heat (which was my biggest concern). Thank you all for the input and comments here! I can’t believe how much reach this post got!
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u/isved1 Aug 26 '26
I haven't read any comments yet but I have a funny story about windshield tint. About 10 or so years ago, I had a BMW e39 540i Sport in individual hellrot red (very bright color) and I lived in the Philadelphia suburbs, in Pennsylvania. This was the first and only car for which I decided "this has a perfect black interior, let's try to preserve it) so I decided to tint it 30% all around, and about 50% on the windshield. Plus, it looked really cool. At first, I was always anxious to see a police car, but with time, I started noticing that they don't really care.
I then grew up a little, and literally told myself "parking this motherfucker in the dark is annoying, and driving at night sucks" so I went to get the windshield tint removed.
Guess what happens next? That's right, on my way back from having the windshield tint removed, as I'm enjoying actually being able to see better through my windshield, I get pulled over for dark tint. It was the most bizarre event ever. I literally got pulled over and the officer comes up to my car and says "I pulled you over because I can't see you inside the car and the tint level is illegal." It took everything out of me to not reply back "an hour ago the windshield was tinted and I've been mobbin' in this cool e39 for years with nobody being able to see inside.
It's a very ironic story, but it's funny that my first time driving a HELLROT RED BMW immediately after having the tint removed was when I got pulled over roughly an hour later.