I think it is now allowed in IL. How many here have done it anyway? Where did you get it done? Do you get stopped alot for it? I want to do it, I just don't know if it would be worth it.

 

There is a legal limit to how dark you can make it . Also can't have door glass tinted? It got me a ticket in Park Ridge on my Grand National Buick several years ago. It was $ 75. then.

 

I see BIG LAW MAN has it. Anyone know what he had done? :D

 

From what I was told you can have as dark a tint you want on the back window but the door windows must be light enough that a police officer can read your licence with the window up.

 

I've had tint for about 2 years (dark on the back window, medium on the sides), and haven't had a problem yet (now that I wrote this, I know I'll get pulled over in the next 10 minutes!!).

If you're looking for someone to do it, call Brad at Sunset Tinting - 630-971-1700. They're based in Downers, but they'll come out to your house to do it. He did 5 or 6 Vettes at our house a couple of years ago, and did a great job.

Good luck,
Collin

 

Stay away from Lombard near Yorktown. My son got nailed twice there once with is GTP and once with his Vette. Same cop same stops got him for no front plate too. EACH infraction is $75.00, equipment violation, not a mover, no insurance repercussion. BLM has tints but he also carries a badge in his pocket too.


[Modified by Stilcrazee, 3:29 PM 10/10/2003]

 

Every state is different, but in Illinois you are not supposed to tint the front side windows at all. This means on a Vette you cant do the doors. On a 4 door car you can do the back doors, but not the front. You can smoke the backs as dark as you want (As long as you have outside mirrors on both sides). Generally speaking, most coppers wont hassle you if they can see you clearly. On the other hand, limo-black on the front doors will get you stopped regularly.

Here is the statute:
Sec. 12-502. Mirrors. Every motor vehicle, operated singly or when
towing another vehicle, shall be equipped with a mirror so located as to
reflect to the driver a view of the highway for a distance of at least
200 feet to the rear of such motor vehicle.

Sec. 12-503. Windshields must be unobstructed and equipped with
wipers.
(a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle with any sign, poster,
window application, reflective material, nonreflective material or
tinted film upon the front windshield, sidewings or side windows
immediately adjacent to each side of the driver. A nonreflective tinted
film may be used along the uppermost portion of the windshield if such
material does not extend more than 6 inches down from the top of the
windshield. Nothing in this Section shall create a cause of action on
behalf of a buyer against a dealer or manufacturer who sells a motor
vehicle with a window which is in violation of this Section.
(b) Nothing contained in this Section shall prohibit the use of
nonreflective, smoked or tinted glass, nonreflective film, perforated
window screen or other decorative window application on windows to the
rear of the driver's seat, except that any motor vehicle with a window
to the rear of the driver's seat treated in this manner shall be
equipped with a side mirror on each side of the motor vehicle which are
in conformance with Section 12-502.
(c) No person shall drive a motor vehicle with any objects placed
or suspended between the driver and the front windshield, rear window,
side wings or side windows immediately adjacent to each side of the
driver which materially obstructs the driver's view.
(d) Every motor vehicle, except motorcycles, shall be equipped with
a device, controlled by the driver, for cleaning rain, snow, moisture or
other obstructions from the windshield; and no person shall drive a
motor vehicle with snow, ice, moisture or other material on any of the
windows or mirrors, which materially obstructs the driver's clear view
of the highway.
(e) No person shall drive a motor vehicle when the windshield, side
or rear windows are in such defective condition or repair as to
materially impair the driver's view to the front, side or rear. A
vehicle equipped with a side mirror on each side of the vehicle which
are in conformance with Section 12-502 will be deemed to be in
compliance in the event the rear window of the vehicle is materially
obscured.
(f) Paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section shall not apply to:
(1) motor vehicles manufactured prior to January 1, 1982; or
(2) to those motor vehicles properly registered in another
jurisdiction.
(g) Paragraph (a) of this Section shall not apply to any motor
vehicle with a window treatment, including but not limited to a window
application, reflective material, nonreflective material, or tinted
film, applied or affixed to the motor vehicle for the purposes set forth
in item (1) or (2) before the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1997 and:
(1) that is owned and operated by a person afflicted with or
suffering from a medical illness, ailment, or disease which would
require that person to be shielded from the direct rays of the sun;
or
(2) that is used in transporting a person when the person
resides at the same address as the registered owner of the vehicle
and the person is afflicted with or suffering from a medical
illness, ailment or disease which would require the person to be
shielded from the direct rays of the sun;
It must be certified by a physician licensed to practice
medicine in Illinois that such person owning and operating or being
transported in a motor vehicle is afflicted with or suffers from
such illness, ailment, or disease and such certification must be
carried in the motor vehicle at all times. The certification shall
be legible and shall contain the date of issuance, the name, address
and signature of the attending physician, and the name, address, and
medical condition of the person requiring exemption. The information
on the certificate for a window treatment applied or affixed before
the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997 must remain
current and shall be renewed annually by the attending physician,
but in no event shall a certificate issued for purposes of this
subsection be valid on or after January 1, 2008. The person shall
also submit a copy of the certification to the Secretary of State.
The Secretary of State may forward notice of certification to law
enforcement agencies.
This subsection shall not be construed to authorize window
treatments applied or affixed on or after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1997.
The exemption provided by this subsection (g) shall not apply to any
motor vehicle on and after January 1, 2008.
(h) Paragraph (a) of this Section shall not apply to motor vehicle
stickers or other certificates issued by State or local authorities
which are required to be displayed upon motor vehicle windows to
evidence compliance with requirements concerning motor vehicles.
(i) Those motor vehicles exempted under paragraph (f)(1) of this
Section shall not cause their windows to be treated as described in
paragraph (a) after January 1, 1993.
(j) A person found guilty of violating paragraphs (a), (b), or (i)
of this Section shall be guilty of a petty offense and fined no less
than $50 nor more than $500. A second or subsequent violation of
paragraphs (a), (b), or (i) of this Section shall be treated as a Class
C misdemeanor and the violator fined no less than $100 nor more than
$500. Any person convicted under paragraphs (a), (b), or (i) of this
Section shall be ordered to alter any nonconforming windows into
compliance with this Section.

Here is the web site I took it from:
http://www.legis.state.il.us/legisla...5act5Sub72.htm


[Modified by sgt538, 7:29 AM 10/11/2003]

 

Thanks Randy.

It is too bad that the Secretary of State allows dealers to sell illegally tinted vehicles. Both of my son's cars were purchased with illegal tints from dealers. When I called State PD and asked them about it, I was given the old ignorance is no excuse line. I was also told that the dealers lobbyists got the legislators to pass some kinda of amendment that allowed the cars to be sold by dealers even though cars with tint are illegal. The excuse was dealers get cars in from other states where tint may be legal. I thought that was pretty wrong.


[Modified by Stilcrazee, 7:04 PM 10/11/2003]

 

Thanks for the info. Does anyone know what % of tint you could do on the side windows, look good and be able to be seen. One other note. If I were a cop I would not like to go up to a car that I could not see what the driver had in their hands. But then again a person in the back seat of a 4 door could have some thing as well. After spending 7 years in LA there is no way I would do that job and I have alot of respect for the ones that do. I just want good looking tint on my Z. :yesnod:


[Modified by Z06GMAN, 11:42 AM 10/11/2003]

 

Mine is tinted 20% all the way around and I have yet to be stopped for it.

If you don't drive like an azzhole, the majority of us guys will not stop a Corvette with tint. Your average scum bag doesnt drive that type of car. :D

 

:iagree: :flag :iagree: :smash:

 

Okay I am taking your word on that... :yesnod: Oh and why we are at it. Spinning the rears in 1st, 2nd and 3rd....that would not be being an AZZhole would it????? :lolg:

 

Yah, its once you spin them through 4th you get that status
:cheers:

 

So when I'm driving my Grand National I am automaticly considered a scum bag? Interesting. I believe they call that profiling.... Actually I had my windows tinted way before the law was enacted. I just went till I got caught but a 48yr. old at the time guy obeying all the laws and not driving like an azzhole didn't warrant a tickey. Took tint off door glass rest still on. And I think its a good law.


[Modified by Z06Corvette, 1:17 PM 10/13/2003]

 

How do you make the leap that GN = scumbag?

The law was enacted before the GN was ever produced....

Drive safely.

 

Ok.... So as not to get miss interputed I was being gest. I don't think GN drivers are scum bags including me. Your reference was "they don't drive those kind of cars" meaning Corvettes being lite I made ref to my situation. Anything other than a Corvette would be a scum bag??? Perhaps should have used smilely face? Also statute doesn't say when enacted but ammended 1993 and again in 1997. Sorrrry :seeya

 

Can we get you guys some boxing gloves? :D

My son's not a scumbag either, he was a full time college student who also worked full time and took the same route to work everyday he was a victim of an "officer" who used lazer radar and got him for no front plates and stumbled on the tints.


[Modified by Stilcrazee, 12:47 PM 10/13/2003]

 

Really, take it easy..............................I know if you brake the law...you may have to pay the price. And who know's the police may have a mustang...in that case............your going to JAIL... :lolg: :_dupe:


[Modified by Z06GMAN, 1:56 PM 10/13/2003]

 

Gary, for some reason I can't post pics right now but here is a link to some pics of what 20% looks like on my beater. It looks a lot darker on a white car than it will on your red Z. Greg just tinted it last week.

http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/foru...&threadid=4603

 

Thanks BLM...................oh and thanks for the Blackouts tip...........they look sweet on Torch Red :yesnod: :yesnod:






[Modified by Z06GMAN, 6:52 PM 10/16/2003]