Car tinting and its acceptable values, tinting 30%

Car tinting is a popular service in the car tuning market, since it provides a lot of advantages for the driver. However, the representatives of the traffic police are severely punishing for tinting. To avoid problems with law enforcement, you need to know what the maximum percentage is allowed in blackout glass.

Advantages and disadvantages of a tinted car

In order to understand whether driving with tinted windows is suitable for you or not, you need to sit in the driver's seat of a tinted car. The advantages of dark windows are undeniable:

1. Adding charm to the exterior of the car. The machine no longer looks like an aquarium for fish.
2. Less sunlight penetrates, which means a more comfortable cabin temperature in summer.
3. A psychological sense of security in people sitting in the cabin.
4. Objects inside are hidden from prying eyes.
5. The headlights reflected in the mirrors do not blind the driver at night.

The disadvantages include the deterioration of visibility at night, as well as in winter, when daylight hours become much shorter.

Permissible dimming auto windows

Over the past couple of decades, the law on tinting has undergone several changes. According to the new GOST 32565-2013, some concessions were made. Now the lower limit of tinting is 30%. This value of light transmission is acceptable for the windshield and door windows of the front hemisphere.

Also, the windshields can be shaded with a dark strip with a width of 14 cm, which should not interfere with the view. Tinting 30 percent looks like a light coating.

Glass itself has a light transmittance of about 80%. Therefore, now it is possible to stick athermal films to the windshields, which in total will give a tint of 30%.

For the rear window and rear door windows, any dimming is acceptable.

Toning cars in the home

For proper bonding of the tint film, you need to understand the essence of the process. It is very easy to glue on glass with an undistorted plane. Here she lies flat, without forming folds. But if you put a film on the windshield or rear window, then many wrinkles appear on it. This is because the straight plane of tinting does not correspond to the curved surface of the glass. What to do? It is necessary to apply a film that stretches when heated.

The tinting process takes place in the following order:

1. Put the film on the outer plane of the glass.
2. Roughly cut along its contour, leave a small margin.
3. Apply a soap solution to the glass using a spray gun and reapply a piece of film.
4. Gently warm the film with a building hairdryer, gently smooth out the folds formed by the curvature of the glass.
5. After the film has taken the desired shape, crop it exactly along the contour of the window.
6. Remove the protective layer from the film, apply it to the soapy solution on the inside of the glass.
7. Use a soft rubber spatula to gently push the soap solution out.

If after the end of the process there are small folds, then you can pierce them with a needle. The air contained in them will escape and they will be smoothed out.

Depending on the configuration, modern cars are equipped with tinted, athermal glasses, which give a tint of 30 percent. They look slightly greenish. They can’t be tinted.

Removable toning

In order to avoid administrative responsibility for unacceptable dimming of the front hemisphere, the automotive market offers removable tinting.

It is a transparent sheet, exactly repeating the outline of the glass. One edge is inserted into the lower window gum, and the top is attached to double-sided tape. This sheet can create an additional tint of 30% and give the transmitted light any shade.

Removable tinting is made of silicone and can be used repeatedly.