Is this a new rule Oz because as far as I know any tinting behind the driver can be as dark as you want.
Steve
Well that's what I thought and I did a bit of reading up on it... it's not illegal to fit anything as dark as you want behind the drivers windows, ie. people who do tinting are allowed to fit limo black etc. on the back.
However when I was chatting to the guy who did the tinting he said that the new police testers some motorway police carry round will not give a 'pass' if you have limo black on the rear windows, but your most likely to get away with it as it's not dangerous... but I had to sign a disclaimer if I wanted Limo Black that it was not his responsibility and I had been warned. So I went for the Dark Smoke.
As far as the front windows go, he looked at a chart and the BS mark on my front windows to get the 'already tinted' percentage, and even light smoke would push you a few % over the limit so again, I would have to sign a disclaimer. I left those as I didn't want them done anyway.
Put it this way, I believed he knew what he was talking about, the day mine was done there were another 8 - 9 cars booked in for tints alone, and every time I pass the garage is full with people having tinting and graphics done.
This is from VOSA, it doesn't state a limit for the rear window...
The legal limits for window tinting are a
minimum of:
● 70 per cent VLT for side windows
● 75 per cent VLT for windscreens on
vehicles first used after April 1985 and
70 per cent VLT for those first used prior
to that date.
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