Just had the zed out for the first time since november, just thought i'd give it a quick spin to the local shops and back cos its been stood so long.

i'd been on the road for literaly 1 minute and a police range rover passes me in the opposite direction i noticed the coppers were looking at my car as they drove past, i looked in the mirror and noticed theyed put their indicator on to turn off and realised they were turning round to follow me.

at which point i turned off and thought about putting the footdown to loose them before they came around the corner, i decided against it and drove at 20mph around the street and decided to head back home by which time they'd caught up and followed me at 20mph untill i was just about outside my door before flashing me to pull over.

as i'd suspected they'd pulled me because "they suspect my windows are too dark" he gets his light meter out and yup there too dark £30 fine and 10 days to sort the tints or they stop me useing the car. BARSTUARDS!!

now i know my windows look dark but i can assure you a blindman on a galloping horse in thick fog could see through them from the inside.

hows about a bit of common sense

sit in the car close the doors it was dull weather they could have seen how easy it is to see through the windows. the tints are top quality fitted in japan. and in my opinion are a main factor in the overall look of my car. and now ive got to change them for a tint very slightly darker than my living room window.

im well miffed

cheers mate,

if id been pulled in a different city or even a different area of sheffield i think id leave the tints as they are .

but the fact i got pulled literaly just down the road i think id better get them sorted.

or does the fact ive not been told to get them checked give me another chance so to speak

 

IMO yes it does but if they fined you the first time the least you will get is that again so i would get them re-done to the limit like i said earlier and be a conformist rebal (if such a thing exsists) :rofl:

Fookin :xxx: ers. why don't they stop :duffer: drivers. Windows FFS. :mad:

cheers for the support guys, seems 99% of you are on my side.

the thing that bugs me is i dont usually get it out while the back end of next month/early april and then its usually windows down roof off

i s'pose im more pissed off with myself for getting it out too early

get yourself another set of non tinted windows they are easy enough to swap and theres tons of them about now going for spares

:bow: good idea mate, any ideas how much they would be

and just how easy are they to swap? cos id probably keep the tints just for shows and meets.........honest :tongue:

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love this bit:

"The level of light transmission is measured by metering units which cost up to £500 each. Supplying them for roadside checks across the country has cost VOSA £13,000. "

 

sad coonts! thats £13,000 could of been spent catching horrible little pieces of shit chavs nicking cars. what point in someones life do they wake up and go 'i know what i want to do as a job, i want to go out of my way to be a coont to other people'

 

GO AND CATCH SOME REAL CRIMINALS!

 

these are sick times we live in!

hey there si did the copper use the light meter on the inside of the glass or the outside ??

 

they are bound to fail on the outside but should be ok on the inside!!

 

take it to a cop station again and ask them to check from the inside out!!

 

failing that just but 2 second hand side windows for now then stick em back on at a later date!!

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:confused: :confused: i dont get it

hey there si did the copper use the light meter on the inside of the glass or the outside ??

 

they are bound to fail on the outside but should be ok on the inside!!

 

take it to a cop station again and ask them to check from the inside out!!

 

failing that just but 2 second hand side windows for now then stick em back on at a later date!!

 

 

its funny you should say that, cos i was thinking that last night, i just couldnt remember how the cop did it, maybe i will take to the station for it checking

although my tints definatley look darker from the outside than the cops example of a window letting 70% light through cos it just looked like my houses windows