Originally Posted by makeithappen
the front window on my car is not tinted for a few reasons.
1. its very illegal.
2. it makes it very hard to see in the rain.
3. when i talked to the tint guy he said that it is a safety matter and that when you tint your window it makes it stronger and that if an accident would happen you could hit the windshield and not go through but just kill yoursself on the window. the funny thing is that he was telling me this while he was tinting all my other windows.
If me or my passenger are:
1 Not wearing our seatbelts.
2 Make it past the airbags during an accident.
3 Flying or not flying through the windshield will be the least of my concerns.
With that said - windshield tint darker then 40% will give you visual problems at night - I did mention it can be pretty dark looking out my side windows (15%) at night in dark areas (If there are street lights - It's no problem).
The real reason for prohibiting windshield tint is red light cameras - they can't get a good picture of you when you run the red light.