Thread: illinois window tint laws

from what i have found, it is LEGAL to have 35% all the way around and to have a 6 inch banner at the top of your windshield. previously it was illegal to have tint on your front door windows. heres the law itself and the link is below


625 ILCS 5/12-503 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 12-503

"(a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle with any sign, poster, window application, reflective material, nonreflective material or tinted film upon the front windshield, except that a... ...nonreflective tinted film may be used along the uppermost portion of the windshield if such material does not extend more than 6 inches down from the top of the windshield."

"(2) on vehicles where none of the windows to the rear of the driver's seat are treated in a manner that allows less than 35% light transmittance, a nonreflective tinted film that allows at least 35% light transmittance, with a 5% variance observed by any law enforcement official metering the light transmittance, may be used on the side windows immediately adjacent to each side of the driver."


Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of Public Act 096-0815

They will tint you anything you want. Most the time you pay in cash so there is no record of them illegally tinting your windows.

i normally tint the rear darker than the front and leave the front just a few shades lighter and cops normally are okay with it..

Originally Posted by oneil.GTP

when was this? i have 5% in the rear, just got an apt to get 35% in the front the guy said it was cool?

better get it done before he changes his mind lol

this was the most recent that i could find. i just thought that i would post it since i was loooking it up anyways

ya ive been thinking about that recently i think instead of getting a legal tint i may go with 20% all around and a 8 inch banner

15% >>>>>> 20%

20% is too light.

20>35

Originally Posted by oneil.GTP

even if the back is 5%?

yes. it will help because it will make it look darker, but i just dont like 20% as a tint grade in general. the only two percentages id ever run would be 35% (legal) or 15% (awesome and not 'pull me over' dark).

do you have 15% on your car? pics?

i did on my prix, yes. i plan on the same for my scoob.

pics:

wow im retarded.... i see your car on the calendar everyday

yep, that's me.

you can still see shadows during the day looking through the windows, so its not pitch black. at night you cant see through them. only when i was way out in the country would i roll my window down slightly or lean forward and look out the corner of the windshield to see turning, but usually it was just fine.