[Shotimes] Officer has "tinted" attitude

[Paul L Fisher]

http://home.pcisys.net/~bpc/auto_law/tint/ says that CA does not allow any
tint on the driver's and passenger window. You can paint your rear windows
completely black but no front window tint. Just because the previous owner
was a cop doesn't mean it was legal. What cop would give another cop a
ticket about something as trivial as tint?


Paul L Fisher

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-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Bobbonnit1@aol.com
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 3:15 PM
To: SHOTIMES@autox.team.net
Subject: [Shotimes] Officer has "tinted" attitude

  I was pulled over yesterday by a San Pablo "peace" officer for what he
said 
was tinted windows.  My side windows were down and I wondered why he pulled 
me over to begin with.  San Pablo is a high-crime city and wasting time
pulling 
over motorists for tinted windows that he can't even see because they were 
down is a contributing factor why the crime rate is so high.  After I showed
him 
I was all legal, is when he asked me to roll up my window so that he could 
show me they were tinted!  Imagine that, a cop with X-ray vision. 
    I bought my 89 SHO from a California Highway Patrolman who tinted the 
windows himself. The rear and back door windows are alot darker than the 
driver/passenger doors  .. When I told the Officer this,  well,  this "know
it all of 
the vehicle code" peace officer got offended and said, "that's the highway 
patrol".  Hmmmmmmm I wondered....Just who knows the VC better?.  I let him  
wallow in his moment of superiority and took the ticket.  Does anyone know
the 
particulars on window tinting in California?

BobK.  '89, 130k,  All OEM White, except tinted windows
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