What is the factory window tint darkness?

[mu5e]

For the front and back side windows?
I wonder if I should just tint the front side window to match the back side window or go one step brighter?
PS : I have 2023 GT

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[21st Century Pony]

For the front and back side windows?
I wonder if I should just tint the front to match the back window or go one step brighter?
PS : I have 2023 GT

Depends on your state DMV rule for the allowable degree of front window tint.

Which in turn depends (as I understand it) partly on how many cops got blown away over the years walking up to cars in your state.

 

[mu5e]

Depends on your state DMV rule for the allowable degree of front window tint.

Which in turn depends (as I understand it) partly on how many cops got blown away over the years walking up to cars in your state.

I don't think the factory tint depends on the state laws? Isn it the same thru US?

 

[mu5e]

Upd:
Seems like the rear windows are around 25%
https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/what-is-the-factory-tint-on-the-back-windows.11699/

 

[21st Century Pony]

Upd:
Seems like the rear windows are around 25%
https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/what-is-the-factory-tint-on-the-back-windows.11699/

Rear windows and front windows are usually treated differently.

Here in Virginia, as much as I like my rear window degree of factory tint, I could not have it on my front windows.

 

[mu5e]

Ok, I have my measured:
Front - 80%
Rear - 25%

 

[Garbone]

My tint guy measured mine at around 25 and did my fronts to match.

Oddly when he did my wife's car a year earlier he added to tint to the rears and match that up front. It is very dark.

 

[cdubs70]

Front 25%
Back 25%

 

[roguemustang]

I don't think the factory tint depends on the state laws? Isn it the same thru US?

Factory tint should be the same across the country as far as I know, but how much you can add is definitely a state thing.

 

[JohnnyForensic]

Factory tint should be the same across the country as far as I know, but how much you can add is definitely a state thing.

Yup. At least in Virginia, a cop may not only give you a ticket for too-dark tint, they may have you strip it off right there on the side of the road.

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

Some states have mandatory safety inspections. Out here, your tinted windows are measured each inspection and if they are too dark, the car fails meaning you can’t register the car. I know one guy who goes to an inspection site and keeps his windows rolled down for this very reason.

 

[generaltso]

Some states have mandatory safety inspections. Out here, your tinted windows are measured each inspection and if they are too dark, the car fails meaning you can’t register the car. I know one guy who goes to an inspection site and keeps his windows rolled down for this very reason.

Rolled down windows are exempt from being measured?

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

Rolled down windows are exempt from being measured?

They forget to look at them cause they’re rolled down.

 

[generaltso]

They forget to look at them cause they’re rolled down.

Seems like the state might want to invest in a checklist.

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