Tinted windscreens

Pearsett100

Was in a friend's is200 with dark tints in the back and rear windows. The front were slight tinted and he had a sunstrip. Guard stopped us tested windows and it passed. Then proceeded to tell him it was borderline and not to get anymore done, as he recently won the car in a competition. He said he had a e46 bmw himself with tints and that all cars typically have a tint from factory but you can do what you want to the back of your car. I think with a black car it can look nice but its more suited to limos. Sunglasses tints however are pretty horrible

twin_beacon

LIGHTNING wrote: »

I don't know, looking at that photo its almost a public service. I know looking at that car that the person driving that is somebody I never want to talk to.

BTW, I was laughing at the driver of the car, not with him!

Jb1989

twin_beacon wrote: »

Not really, your insurance company will take payment and give you a disk no problem, based on the information you give them. Any modifications you make, or have been made to the car before you bought it need to be disclosed to the insurance company. If you have an illegal tint on your windows, and the insurance company was not informed, then that breaches the insurance principle "utmost good faith", and your insurance is void.
This only comes to light if you are the cause of a crash and either you try or someone else tries to claim against your insurance, the claim may be rejected IF the insurance company sends out an assessor to inspect the damage, and they see modification to your car that was not disclosed to them, they are within their rights to not pay out.



From my experience, insurance companies don't care about the NCT. Why should they, if my car passed the NCT 23 months ago, it doesn't mean its roadworthy today. Ive never been asked for my cars NCT by an insurance company.

Ive been refused insurance, for not haveing a valid nct.

colm_mcm

All you need is your tinted windscreen for show use. Then have a spare windscreen for normal use. Give Autoglass a shout any time there’s a show on and they’ll swap them out for you.

twin_beacon

twin_beacon wrote: »

I did laugh

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