Explain to me why it would be so different.

you guys sure do like to have arguments about technicalities/tangential items, are you sure neither of you are politicians?

huehuehuehue

I don't know why I bother sometimes, but i'll bite.

Laminated glass is made up of 3 layers, 2 outer layers of glass separated by a PVB layer sandwiched between them. The end result is one bonded material which will not separate from one another, under any reasonable circumstance. Whereas tinting a window is simply applying a layer of tape to the outside of a pane of glass.

Further to that, the PVB layer in laminated glass is on average .4mm thick. By comparison a layer of tint is only 1 thou thick (.0254mm).

The end result is that laminated glass and tinted glass are similar much like how Kevlar is similar to hemp.

Bet most people have never smoked kevlar. :suspicious:

Seberry should be a trendsetter. :accepted:

So what you're trying to say is that due to the tint's weakness, it shouldn't interfere with the way the glass shatters?

Once shattered, laminated glass will often bend and warp around whatever caused it to shatter in the first place. Since the individual fragments of glass are held in place by that PVB interlayer, they still pose a significant laceration hazard to any body parts that come in contact with it.

So again remind me why laminated glass is permitted for front-side windows and tint isn't?

:suspicious:

Nice try with the straw man argument, but I'm not biting.

I'm going to cut my losses here and end with saying:

Tinting any one of your 3 front windows is illegal, take this as formal notice. Tinting your windows does NOT create a safe in vehicle environment. Using that excuse in court will likely end up with you looking like a complete dunce.

... and nobody has demonstrated how it creates a dangerous environment.

EDIT: Need I point out the illegal mods on your FX35?

WHat des that have to do with anything?

Oh right, it doesn't. Next.

See my sig... :ilied:

LOL.

You want to see illegal, wait till next week...:fuckyea:

Seriously?

Laminated glass has the film sheet (polyvinyl butyral... basically a bonding resin) sandwiched between the layers of glass. When an impact hits the glass, that inner film helps to hold all the shards in one place.

Tint is stuck on the outside of the glass. When an impact hits, the potential for the tint peeling off is relatively high. This causes shards to still fall everywhere.

Yes, both methods have the possibility of allowing glass shards to fall onto someone inside a vehicle, but the latter method will allow it to happen far more often.

There's a reason why the laminated process is used for creating bullet resistant glass instead of using external layers of film.

His argument changed over the course of this conversation. At first he was trying to say that having tinted windows is safer then not having tinted windows, this is where he compared tinted windows to the process of laminating windows.

Then when I proved him wrong by explaining to him that the to processes are not even remotely similar his argument changed to the fact that adding tint does not make the glass any more dangerous then not having it.

Classic straw man argument.

How much is the tint ticket?

did you pay or dispute?

OP i'm curious about the outcome.

Samething, had a very very light tint as well and it's been on my car since 2003 when I brought my car from out of province, I had the mandatory vehicle inspection and everything. Officer said they should have caught it and that I should go back to the inspection garage and get them to pay the fine.. honestly how does one prove that?

I have encountered numerous Vehicle Inspectors who regularly approved cars with illegally tinted windows...and dealerships who sold the cars that way. Some of the same inspectors worked for the dealerships...some didn't. The inspection was defective...however you must have known it was illegal some time in the last 11 years. Why did you not go back to the inspection centre and ask them that question? I can name 5 dealerships I reported for selling illegally tinted cars and at least double that number of inspectors willing to ignore the regulations and pass defective vehicles. Due to the fact that I no longer have the proof, I won't.

Anyone know the price of the ticket for front tints.

^ I believe it's $109

^ lol brother just got a ticket for front tinted windows today.

Any body recommend a shop?

To re-install it...or remove it? :suspicious:

remove, probably just going to do it myself.

Just do it yourself, if you can remove your inner door panel, makes it way easier.

Mighty Car Mods has a good video on removing film, but basically; heat it up with a heat gun, lift a corner and pull it off, then remove the adhesive with a razor blade, and clean up what remains with a rag and goo gone.

Spoken like a man who has been there before! :smug:

No tint allow for front windows