NOVA - window tinting
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NOVA - window tinting
I need your help. Coming home from the ODCC gathering at Lagrange winery just minding my own business and who pops up behind me for about a half mile riding my tail - yep, LEO. Lights come on and he walks up to the car just to check the window tint. 
My tint reads are 33 and 34. Virginia is legal above 50. After checking both windows and hearing my truthful explanation that when I purchased the car in FL I told the dealer what the legal limits are in VA and that they were not to go any less than 50. Fortunately, LEO believed me (because I told him the truth) and said he'd let me go with a warning and that was it.
Needless to say, I need to get my window tint replaced and now I need some advice on who can do Corvette side windows well, without ripping me off. Any advice for someone in the Ashburn/Leesburg/Sterling area?
By the way, you KNOW I had my front license plate on the car.
Thanks in advance and -
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My tint reads are 33 and 34. Virginia is legal above 50. After checking both windows and hearing my truthful explanation that when I purchased the car in FL I told the dealer what the legal limits are in VA and that they were not to go any less than 50. Fortunately, LEO believed me (because I told him the truth) and said he'd let me go with a warning and that was it.Needless to say, I need to get my window tint replaced and now I need some advice on who can do Corvette side windows well, without ripping me off. Any advice for someone in the Ashburn/Leesburg/Sterling area?
By the way, you KNOW I had my front license plate on the car.
Thanks in advance and -
type to you later....
Last edited by Longhorn Vette; May 2, 2008 at 03:27 PM.
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You can go the route you were talking about...... or you can go to DMV and ask for a "SUNSHADE WAIVER" form. Take that form and go make an apointment with your eye doctor. Tell them you have light sensitivity. They do there check up, shine lights in your eyes, you grimmice, they get paid. They write a prescription that you have light sensitivity. You then give the doctor the form from DMV and they send the form and prescription, from there office address, to the address on the form. In about 10 days you get a letter that states all veihicle listed on form will be covered by a "SUNSHADE WAIVER", and you get new registration cards that have it printed in the left hand corner. This makes you legal in VA for 35% side and rear. I ran 20% rear and never had a problem. You can even list autos with the same registration address (wife, family, ect.)
The only problem I ever had in the 3 years I ran around in my car was the officers that pulled me over for tint never heard of the waiver, so I always keep the form in the car with the registation. Just an FYI.
The only problem I ever had in the 3 years I ran around in my car was the officers that pulled me over for tint never heard of the waiver, so I always keep the form in the car with the registation. Just an FYI.
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Good point on the waiver. I was stopped along I66 this past Christmas eve and the trooper had no clue how waivers looked, or even the SOP for using his tint meter (on wet and dirty glass)
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