Ticketed for Tint!
 

After almost two years of driving around NJ, PA, & DE with tinted windows, I finally get pulled over...in my own hometown! (You listening, dag?)
I cant believe the cop gave me a ticket and not just a warning for the tints after he saw I live in town (about 7000 population).
Ive been driving around town since June, 2004, have parked in front of the police station dozens of times, have waved to officers & they waved back many times, and I live on the corner of a major intersetion with an elementary school, and I know the cops have seen my car (it's not like there are 30 or 40 winning blue 8s in my town) hundreds of times. Why today & why this cop? He's some young guy I dont know. I fired off a letter to the Chief, whom I do know. Im wrong, I'll pay, but I think the cop couldve let me go with a warning; me being a local & all.
Right? :Freak_ani

do you have a front plate on, cuz i do not, but i'm tint free

i dont either now....and i got 20 % tint all around.....and i have white signal bulbs rather than amber ones.....im just askin for it arent i?

I drove around for about 2 months with no front plate but got nervous. It's funny but I thought then,"If I get pulled over for no plate, it will happen here in Pitman!"

I'll still have the tint at Rotaryfest!

fight the powa!!

I may wind up selling the 8 to pay all my fines, but..it will be worth it, Chris!

just get a second job......screw the po-po!

New guy? Yeah, like you said, letter of the law is you're wrong, but I can't believe he'd ticket you for that alone. Now, I can see using such a technicality to pull over someone who appears to be a trouble-maker or otherwise suspicous, but why hassle the locals?

What's your %? I saw your car a couple of weeks ago and didn't think it was that bad. Did he use the meter and get a different reading than you expected?

Sorry to hear about your trouble - I hope the fine doesn't take too big a bite.

Police Officer: "God damn punk driving around in the car I want!! I bet his parents bought it for him no good punk I'll show him!"

Thats why you got the ticket I bet.. or you slept with his girlfriend and that was all he could do to you hahaha..

Fight the power man..!!! Maybe at Rotaryfest we can start a collection for your legal fee's!

CBD: I just dug out my receipt because I couldnt remember the %.
It's 35% driver & passenger side windows & 20% back 3 windows. The back 3 are darker, of course. The cop didnt measure anything. SHould he have? I think any tint is forbidden in NJ.
I dont know, Cool-Blue, did I look like a trouble-maker to you? :FIREdevil

Thanks, Clavius, but Im a 50 year-old punk! With ink.
Maybe it was the tattoo!

rears are legal....fronts arent

Is it 0 tint on fronts, Chris, in NJ?

My daughter's boyfriend is front-end manager of where I had the tint done & he told me the local cops bring their cars in frequently for tints themselves!

chris is right, no tint what so ever on the front passenger windows and windshield, everything else can go as much as wanted. then of course there's pennsylvania right over the bridge. penn's do not need a front plate and can tint everything legally. :mad:

We definatley cannot tint legally. I had it put on eclipse before and got a nice ticket for it. I wasn't even doing anything to get pulled over.

A CRAAAAAPPP....i just got mine tinted 20% all around yesterday....i hope it doesnt happen to me

almost 2 years for me with 20 all around and no ticket......sometimes you get lucky.....

cause they're cops and they don't have to follow the rules

chris is right, i researched before i got mine tinted. anything in the back, nothing in the front.

I've had 20 in the rear and 35 on the front for a while now, and all i got was a college "cop" threaten me and he pulled me over cause he said I was "flying" (i was doing 33 in a 25). I even got pulled over by a real cop and he didn't say anything about the windows.

Your problem is that the cop that pulled you over was a young guy who was strictly following all the rules. After a while they don't really care about that kinda stuff, unless you're already doing something else bad.


Duke, do you drive on 295 in the cherry hill/mt. laurel area? Cause I've seen a blue with tints a few times driving home.

35% tint, here, all around....so far so good.....damn it, I probably just jinxed myself!

For NJ, the law says no tints on the windshield or front side windows, and anything on the rears.

For Pennsyltuckey, it's no tints on the windshield, 70 on all sides, and "VESC 8" in the back (whatever the hell that means?)

See http://www.latint.com/regulations.htm

I'd go to the place you got the tint installed at and ask the guy to write you a receipt or one of the technicians, tell him you'll take care of him, throw him a 20.00 and bring the receipt, without the car, to court and fight it. Tell the D.A. the tint was on the car when you bought it, and after getting this ticket, and having no idea that you were breaking the law, you then had the tint removed. I did it and got away with the ticket 4 times, and the officer used a tool to measure the tint.

But on the other hand, I'm not sure what type of court you'll be going to, along with the fact that your town population is 7,000, the same officer may see you again.

got a ticket for tints 9 days after i put them on... and it was like only my second day taking it out of those 9 days.....

Not every day, but once or twice a week if I have to go up that way. I travel 42 & 55 most of the time between work in Gloucester & home in Pitman.
Next time, look to see if there's a Pitman cop following the blue.
Then, yes...it's me!

tryin to catch me ridin dirty!
 

see now you jinxed me.....got pulled over on my way home from wendy's with dinner.....and i was actually listening to ridin dirty.......and i was cruisin one block from home....he pulls me over.....no front plate (told him cuz of the bumper i was waiting on it from japan)....had the fronts rolled down so he had no idea.....and he just looks over my car.....tells me its hot!.....(he was a younger guy) and i drop some local cops names on him and he lets me go....and just before i pulled out there was a group of kids pointing and laughing in a wrx so he rips a u-turn and pulls them over!....nice