Pinnacle Ceramic - 50% windshield - 30% everywhere else...

 

Not planning to drive at night?

 

[QUOTE=porsche356a;1131399]Pinnacle Ceramic - 50% windshield - 30% everywhere else.../QUOTE]

Do you live in the US? I am not aware of anywhere in the US that 50% windshield tint is legal. Although it does look good.

Is the coating the Pinnacle Black Label coating? I had Ceramic Pro applied by a detailer but purchased the Pinnacle Black Label Maintenance Kit and other Black Label products to maintain the coating.

 

I live in the US. I do the same tint to all my cars. Never had a nighttime visbility problem, or any trouble regarding the tint level.

Not sure about the the maintenance on the film... I can't say I've ever done anything special about it. Seems pretty bulletproof and maintenance free to me.

 

50% tint on a windshield is ballsy. Windshields already have a slight tint so you are probably in the 40% range. Some States, like AZ, will impound a front tinted vehicle. Be careful out there.

 

He is able to see in total darkness like Wolverine.

 

Get a note from your eye doctor saying you need it for eye sensitivity.

 

 

Actually Orlando police are starting to crack down on dark tints. A recent local news show followed a police officer as he stopped cars with suspicious tints and measured the tint with a meter. He then issued $100 fines and gave them a certain period of time to correct the tint to the Florida legal tint or additional fines/confiscation would follow.

Does anyone know what the tint on our cars is from the factory? All the windows state "transparency 70% minimum". Does that mean they are tinted 70%?

 

That means it lets a minimum of 70% of the light through.

 

Modern auto "safety glass" consists of two laminated sheets of glass with a layer of plastic between which holds the layers together in a breakage situation. The plastic layer is often tinted, which is 70% in the F-Type glass.

If you actually care about being legally compliant, which many don't, you have to consider, for example, when adding after-market tint that a 35% after-market film on the F-Type will filter out 65% of the light on top of the 70% OEM transparency spec, which could very easily put you in an illegal situation. Many law enforcement agencies provide officers with devices that will precisely detect a darker tint than legal spec.

Many people convince themselves that they can safely see at night with dark tints, but the truth is you're, in effect, wearing sunglasses at night. There's no way you will see even close to as well because it's physiologically impossible. Obviously, it would be tragic to run down someone in dark clothes because they weren't seen soon enough to stop.

 

+1. Be careful out there.


I've had to pull tint off a Texas car to be able to see at night without rolling down the windows.

 

Interesting. As others have said, you might want to be a bit more careful at night. Here in Australia, it is illegal to apply any tint to the windscreen, although side and rears are no problem.

 

Normally I don't care about people's personal choices with their vehicle. You want to put 24" rims on your f type, go for it. But I think this is kinda stupid to be playing with other people's lives when tinting your windshield...

 

You can add driver and passenger side windows, because you need those to detect something that might be moving directly into your path.

 

I wasn't planning on chiming in on this thread - I have never tinted anything (perhaps a tie-dyed shirt eons ago; and even then I doubt I did that) - but there have been times when my side view mirrors on my 2004 Audi A8L have tinted themselves quite dark (as much as I know all my controls, the Audi A8L sometimes has a mind all its own) and it's bad enough seeing them in the daylight but at dark it's practically impossible - even with better than 20/20 vision (which has little to do with the premise of tinting).

Lastly, there are times - particularly at dusk and of course at night - when between the street lights (or lack thereof), the glare of oncoming traffic, and the clothing some people wear [READ = DARK] I can often barely see people (usually college age since we live down the block from a major college) crossing the street.

So, for me, I can't imagine tinting anything. Except that shirt.

 

Beautiful car, looks great with the tints too, but like others I'd have problems with visibility and legality, but each to their own.

As some one else stated, I also have Auto dimming interior mirror and side mirrors.....I hate them as they become way too dark to see at night to be of any real use, just in my opinion of course.

 

The other thing one needs to be concerned about is voiding their insurance. If you get into an accident with a car which is not legally allowed and you cause damage or worse yet death or major suffering to someone and your insurance is voided your life as you now know it will be over. This would be like drinking and driving and actually a lawyer will argue that you had impaired vision just like drinking and driving.

 

Yes, I wasn't going to pile on, but that would be very likely in a major injury, or worse, case.

 

All fair points guys and ones I happen to agree with...

We're all individual in our tastes and opinions and I'm sure that the OP knows this as much as we do