Tinted windows - Berks/Surrey/West London
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I'm sure I replied to this but nothing on here yet?!
Anyway, drop Cat a text in the momrning if you can. A colleage of hers had the windows tinted on his Range Rover last year by a mobile outfit and apparently did a good job. Oh and as you know, Cat is based in Southall which is just down the road from you so I don't think getting to your workplace would too much extra effort?
Anyway, drop Cat a text in the momrning if you can. A colleage of hers had the windows tinted on his Range Rover last year by a mobile outfit and apparently did a good job. Oh and as you know, Cat is based in Southall which is just down the road from you so I don't think getting to your workplace would too much extra effort?
Pete, don't know if you saw 5th Gear the other night but they did a bit on this as the BiB are clamping down on illegal tinted windows and now have a 'tint-o-meter' to check if all is in order. The legal position is that the front side windows on all cars must allow 70% of light to pass through them. That figure also applies to the windscreens of cars first used before April 1985; any car first used from then onwards has to let 75% of light through the windscreen.
the thing i like about that law are.
no1, its not an mot failure which it should be if they seriously want to sort the problem out,
no2, if you have say a heat reflective screen,which many newer cars do as i have in my clio, they dont let 70% of the light through so that law is balls anyway, my front screen must be illegal ?
no3, so does that mean celeb's and vip's will get away with it or do they have to conform ?
no1, its not an mot failure which it should be if they seriously want to sort the problem out,
no2, if you have say a heat reflective screen,which many newer cars do as i have in my clio, they dont let 70% of the light through so that law is balls anyway, my front screen must be illegal ?
no3, so does that mean celeb's and vip's will get away with it or do they have to conform ?
My 130 has factory fitted "individual sun protection glass", which in plain English means dark tinted rear windows and rear screen. I've no idea what the light transmission ratio is, but it's so dark from outside that the Channel Tunnel customs officers made me put the rear windows down to check there was no-one in there!
Highly recommended at least for the rear. Even if there's no effect on the temperature it makes the car look much less fussy.
Pete
Highly recommended at least for the rear. Even if there's no effect on the temperature it makes the car look much less fussy.
Pete
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