Paying the Tint Tax

[Kordain]

So big fire at a condo block on my way home last night, lots of PoPo hanging around, one bored officer decided to turn tax collector and hit me with the tint tax. Props to him for not doing me for having an out of date document in my pouch though. cheers for that.

Anyways, pay the fine but what comes next. I can either strike out the razor or leave it n hope. what happens if you get caught a second time ? does the cop know youve been hit for it once already and drops a bigger fine or do they not have a clue ?

cheers

[bart]

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thats why you dip

[lulu]

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i got a tint ticket too, mine was 57 how much was yours?

[Lars]

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Wife got stopped last summer going to Red Deer for tinted windows but the cop let her go cause the little one was sleeping in the back and he wasnt going to make her scrapped it off on the side of #2 , he had a razor and everything ! She didnt get a ticket or anything.

[Stonewall]

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Must have been the same cop that pulls everyone else over. Seems he now has the kit to go with his Vendetta. Someday someone will get hit taking their tint off on the side of the road and he will get sued.

[canuck699]

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Its a female thing about the no tickets, no matter how big my breasts are, i never get out of a ticket. Yet my girlfriend has had 4 "warnings" in the past year. No tickets, no official warnings, just a don't do it again.

[sloan]

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I have 3 tint tickets 10 years. On the same car, the one cop wrote on my registration that I was pulled over for window glaze and dated it. Folded it back up and I did not notice. I was pulled over again a couple of weeks later and received another ticket for window glaze and that cop showed it to me. Didnt tell me to take it off. Same price for both tickets.

[Rocky_Rabbit]

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What % did you have on the car? Im think about getting 40% around, and don't want to have this problem.

[danosaur]

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i have something like 35% on my golf, and i've never been pulled over for it.. knock on wood.

[mk4jetta]

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I had 20% on all windows in my Mk4 Jetta, in 2 years I got one ticket. $57 each front window, got the ticket on the highway near Red Deer, during a cruise!

[bonfire]

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A friend of mine has a 2000 Ranger, with the front windows tinted, tinted pretty dark at that. The PO had the tint installed the same week he bought in 2000 so in 10 years, they have been no tickets.

[Lars]

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Must have been the same cop that pulls everyone else over. Seems he now has the kit to go with his Vendetta. Someday someone will get hit taking their tint off on the side of the road and he will get sued.

Yeah we were 10 mins behind and he had another Jetta pulled over and the poor guy was scrapping windows

[Kordain]

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well he told me to take it off but didnt make me, like i said he was just stood there bored senseless blocking the road to keep it clear for the fire trucks n just spotted me.

Ill have to check my Reg Doc to see if he marked it at all.

The fine was $57. so it sounds like ill just ride with it still on n hope the same guy doesnt get me twice.

The tint amount? i dont know it came with the car but it isnt as dark as many i see. Been riding with it for 5 years and this was the first ticket, been sat next to cops on the road a few times as my work is right next to the station and theyve never said a word.

bah

[bonfire]

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I wonder about this whole writing on your registration. Not sure I would be ok with that.

[D-BOMB]

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I never had an officer look twice a my mk4 when it had pretty dark tint, Only comment it ever got was from my neighbor who is a CPS constable who just said "it looks pretty sick" haha its all attitude, just stick to "yes sir, no sir" and chances are you can get off with a warning...Just dont pull the duechy "my taxes pay your wage" thing or they will purposely make it worse on you.