For me, if I ask for an unpopular opinion and you say something about pineapple on pizza I’m going to assume you have no personality.

  • Tiral
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    6 days ago

    Illinois is crazy. So here you have two main options, you can black out your back window and the side back windows if it’s a 4 door or those little side backseat windows in a 2 door. Or you can do 35% all around, besides the windshield.

    • subignition@fedia.io
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      6 days ago

      Personally I would take inspiration from Tennessee’s laws on the subject, but just the part where you can have any darkness above the AS1 line. Have some comparable equivalent (top 2-3 inches) of all windows allow whatever darkness to get the sun out of your eyes, then the remainder of the windows should be tint free. It’s really annoying when rear windows are so tinted that you can’t even see the brake lights of the next car in line through the car ahead of you.

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        5 days ago

        Ah I was thinking you must have lived somewhere else because you can rent say a Uhaul in every state I figured, and they clearly don’t even have rear windows. I too prefer to be able to see the lights through the vehicle in front of me but I’m not so sure I think my preference there should override others choice of privacy. I’d like to think it is the safer option though

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          5 days ago

          Nothing to be done about opaque vehicles like box trucks and work vans unfortunately. But if you’re driving on public roads you are in public, and should not have an expectation of privacy.

    • FlexibleToast
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      5 days ago

      It’s even more complicated than you made it sound

      You can install 35% VLT on all windows (except windshield).

      All windows behind driver can legally have any tint percent, but only if front side windows are not tinted.

      Front side windows may have 50% light transmission, but only if no window behind driver is tinted under 30% VLT.

      On vehicles with factory-installed window tint of any darkness on any back window, front side windows must have over 50% VLT

      I remember tracking the bill through the state congress that allowed the front windows to be tinted. I immediately went and got my 35% all around when it became legal.