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Do you plan on tinting the windows of your new Fiesta ST?

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Got my first ticket in the ST yesterday for illegal tint. I have 20% all around. It was a matter of time, but I made the trooper look at my car since I was in the HOV lane. There were 3 of us in the car, so I was legal for the HOV, but the fact that I was there made him notice. Note to self: stay out of the HOV lane with illegal tint...
 

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20% is illegal? I think that's our limit. Rear passengers can be painted black as far as I'm aware though.
Depends on your state laws. In Texas it can be all the way down to 5% on everything except the front windows which must be a lowest of 25%. I have mine at 20% on the rears and 35% on the fronts. That's plenty dark enough for me. I probably would have done 25% all around but the 3M Color Stable tint supposedly reads 35% at 27%, so any lower would be "illegal" for the front windows. I had 5% on the rear of my previous car that the PO put on and I couldn't see crap out the back at night.
 

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In VA, regardless of where your car is registered, it's 50% on the front and 35% on the back and rear windows. It's a $91 fine. My front windows (the only ones he checked) read 17% with his tester because of the "solar tint" from the factory.
 

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I'm in TX where the tint place I went to told me that for the front side windows it had to be a least 30%. I went with the best stuff the establishment had - Huper Optik, a German Product that does airplane windows I'm told and is a bit thicker than the competition (takes longer to set as well). I wanted 35%, but it only came in 30%, 40%, and 50%. The Huper 30% seemed a tad darker than I preferred so I went with the 40% all around except the moonroof where I did the 30%. (At certain angles the Huper Optik 40% it still looks pretty dark.) Anyway ,the place was fairly high end I guess as there were two BMWs and a Mercedes in front of me......needless to say I got the "what are you doing here with that POS look" from them as I pulled in with my FiST, but it turned out I was the only one getting the Huper Optik installed; those cheap SOBs opted for the less expensive stuff (still good I was told - Llumar?). The job cost me about $450, but the product blocks the heat better than the other brands (at least the ones offered at this place) which is a necessity on those microwave hot TX summer days.
 

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I'm in TX where the tint place I went to told me that for the front side windows it had to be a least 30%. I went with the best stuff the establishment had - Huper Optik, a German Product that does airplane windows I'm told and is a bit thicker than the competition (takes longer to set as well). I wanted 35%, but it only came in 30%, 40%, and 50%. The Huper 30% seemed a tad darker than I preferred so I went with the 40% all around except the moonroof where I did the 30%. (At certain angles the Huper Optik 40% it still looks pretty dark.) Anyway ,the place was fairly high end I guess as there were two BMWs and a Mercedes in front of me......needless to say I got the "what are you doing here with that POS look" from them as I pulled in with my FiST, but it turned out I was the only one getting the Huper Optik installed; those cheap SOBs opted for the less expensive stuff (still good I was told - Llumar?). The job cost me about $450, but the product blocks the heat better than the other brands (at least the ones offered at this place) which is a necessity on those microwave hot TX summer days.
Texas is actually 25% front, 5% rear for the maximum tint. I went with 3M Color Stable tint because that's all the place I went to tints with and it supposedly reads 27% on a 35% tint so I had to do 35% in the front. And I did 20% in the rear to darken it up a bit and not go too dark.
 

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Thinking about doing 20% all around, got quoted $150, $180, and $200 for similar qualities of tint.
 
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