Got a fix-it ticket.. what do you think?

Personal Opinion: California is handing out way more non-insurance raising tickets. In the last year i have been pulled over for speeding(75 in a 65) and given a fixit ticket for my address. Pulled over for using a cell phone without out a headset ($20 police ticket, Santa Monica Courts adds $140.00 "administrative" fee even though paid on time).

Also Watch out, they will no longer send you a notice in the mail reminding you the court date and amount... check online or go in on time.... otherwise they are using GC Services to collect. Friend had a speeding ticket, first notice he got was from the DMV that his licence had been suspended. Speeding, administrative fees, late fees, collections fees: $1015 (4 months after the ticket).

Most of the police are being nice, keeping busy and finding non insurance raising items.

Personally, I would remove the tint. California's budget is going to make fees and the number of tickets handed out go up and up and up.

 

It's cheaper to take the tint off at home, get it signed off, and put it back on. It's $25 for the ticket an $50 to put it on (and take it off). So if I take it off at home it's cheaper by half to just play their game. But it does take more time. So it if you want to spend the time to save $75 do it youself. If you want to save the time just pay the $150 fee.

 

i hate tint laws. its so much nicer to drive with tinted windows.. you dont get the bright sun in your eyes so i dont see why its illegal. id say its safer to have tint. who cares if the cop cant see whos driveing the vehicle.
i was told by an officer to remove mine for haveing 20% on the front so i did and put 35% on and havnt been bothered since.
my back windows have 5% over the stock tint lol glad they dont care about the back.

 

meh, im all for cops seeing inside.. and i'm also all for tint companies being mandated by law to only put on legal tint to cars.. so people like me dont ahve to deal with this shit

 

X2

 

yah.. my plan - to see if i can get away with keeping it fro a bit (summer is coming, it really helps with the heat!) and if i get another fixit anytime soon, off it goes..

 

Well, based on this: CHP Website

Based on that, since you have aftermarket tinting on the front driver's and passenger's windows, I think your window tint is illegal (and therefore "too dark" by definition).

 

I had that coming, and I accept it gracefully.

 

Maybe you can lobby the Assembly to make it legal for environmental reasons. If it keeps the car cooler, you're not using the ac, which saves gas... blah, blah, blah. I mean, they actually considered banning black cars because they use more AC on hot days, I don't know why they wouldn't reverse the tint law if you can show them it will stop global warming.

 

That'd be awesome. I could call it Jeff's law.. Or Law of Awesomeness..

 

Take it off
Right now law enforcement in Kalifornia is looking for $$$$$$$$$ . We are broke and as usual , tax payers have to float all the High paying/lazy state jobs and pensions and ass o nine programs.
Remember ,there is talk of making new car sales of DARK colored cars to save on gas illegal ??!!??WTF?
This is a Very liberal (lefty)state with nuts running it
It is becoming a prison
Your second "fix it" will be double

 

CARB is way ahead of you on this, unfortuantly they found a way of doing this with a clear film, sorry.

http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/cool-cars/cool-cars.htm

 

I started doing this, but decided to stop so I dont burn my window motors out. Cops are EVERYWHERE.

Can't even have the tint across the top of the front windshield. Got pulled over for having it on my old car. CHP told me it needs to come off, even if less than 4"

Some insurance companies will actually charge you for Cell phone tickets, seat belt tickets, etc even though they are 0 point violations...


Oh, and I vote "no" by the way.

 

I had a friend do this it is probably the only way to fight the ticket and pay no money. If you can go to an optometrist who can write you a perscrption stating your eyes are light sensitive and can impair your driving.


Then you are good to go. Case gets overturned. Its CVC Code 26708 section 10. The only problem is that if you get caught at night your screwed.

Here is the section so no one has to look it up.

(10) Sun screening devices meeting the requirements of Section 26708.2
installed on the side windows on either side of the vehicle's front seat,
if the driver or a passenger in the front seat has in his or her
possession a letter or other document signed by a licensed physician and
surgeon certifying that the person must be shaded from the sun due to a
medical condition, or has in his or her possession a letter or other
document signed by a licensed optometrist certifying that the person must
be shaded from the sun due to a visual condition. The devices authorized
by this paragraph shall not be used during darkness.

 

This is from the California Legal Info. It's run by the state and has the most up-to-date information:

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdocID=4724629837+3+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve

California Vehicle Code: 26708 exceptions

c) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), transparent material may be
installed, affixed, or applied to the topmost portion of the
windshield if the following conditions apply:
(1) The bottom edge of the material is at least 29 inches above
the undepressed driver's seat when measured from a point 5 inches in
front of the bottom of the backrest with the driver's seat in its
rearmost and lowermost position with the vehicle on a level surface.
(2) The material is not red or amber in color.
(3) There is no opaque lettering on the material and any other
lettering does not affect primary colors or distort vision through
the windshield.
(4) The material does not reflect sunlight or headlight glare into
the eyes of occupants of oncoming or following vehicles to any
greater extent than the windshield without the material.

 

26708.2 describes the allowable devices. Typical tinting wouldn't apply:

26708.2. Sun screening devices permitted by paragraph (10) of
subdivision (b) of Section 26708 shall meet the following
requirements:
(a) The devices shall be held in place by means allowing ready
removal from the window area, such as a frame, a rigid material with
temporary fasteners, or a flexible roller shade.
(b) Devices utilizing transparent material shall be green, gray,
or a neutral smoke in color and shall have a luminous transmittance
of not less than 35 percent.
(c) Devices utilizing nontransparent louvers or other alternating
patterns of opaque and open sections shall have an essentially
uniform pattern over the entire surface, except for framing and
supports. At least 35 percent of the device area shall be open and no
individual louver or opaque section shall have a projected vertical
dimension exceeding 3/16 inch.
(d) The devices shall not have a reflective quality exceeding 35
percent on either the inner or outer surface.