Commerical Jeep - Do you need to black out the windows?

Bandara

If anyone knows the definitive answer on the requirement to have the back windows in a commerical done. ?

Do they have to be 'blacked out' with metal plate and carpet on the windows?

Can you just dark tint the back windows?

I'm trying to find this out for days and no one seems to know. The VRO have given me three different answers so far.

If anyone can find/knows of a definitive answer that I can print out and bring into the VRO I would really appreciate it.

Thanks

mickey mac

A friend of mine imported a Hiace from japan, the VRO in Dundalk insisted that the rear side windows had the glass removed and metal panels fitted.

Theanswers

If the jeep was orginally registered in Ireland, then all you are not required to tint/ panel off the windows....

However if the jeep is being brought in from the uk/ north then you are required to panel off the windows with sheet aluminuim for example. The windows must be disconnected. I believe removing the fuse will suffice. This worked for me.

If in a few years i want to convert the jeep to passenger, then all i have to do is replace the fuse, lower the windows and remove the sheet of alluminuim. Simple!

cabrwab

Find the boards user eric cartman!
I He's a kia jeep converted i think and he had to get them done.
( i don't know him just remember a post from him about it!)

Bandara

I've seen loads of them with the sheet on the windows, yet my own brother bought a 2008 Q7 last week, UK import and had it converted over here, the back windscreen and rear windows only have medium tint applied (ie nothing to restrict them at all) and it sailed through the VRT/DOE process and he is driving it happily with all his certificate in place !!!

Yet so many other people say it has to be plated etc.

Mr. Presentable

Hmm, there seems (no surprise) to be no definitive answer. I had to have the windows removed and panelled on one in '04, but in another in '07 it was enough to have it panelled, windows remaining.

darragh o meara

as someone who has worked in a doe centre i saw loads of jeeps converted using only tint my own included. The big issue as said above is with whoever looks at the jeep in the tax office some willallow tint and some wont. Personally i think if the job is done right they dont seem to mind that much. It all depends on who you meet. As from a doe perspective there is no obligation for tint or metal sheeting or at least there wasnt last time iworked there but things do change quickly in that game.

Bandara

Omeara_darragh wrote: »

as someone who has worked in a doe centre i saw loads of jeeps converted using only tint my own included. The big issue as said above is with whoever looks at the jeep in the tax office some willallow tint and some wont. Personally i think if the job is done right they dont seem to mind that much. It all depends on who you meet. As from a doe perspective there is no obligation for tint or metal sheeting or at least there wasnt last time iworked there but things do change quickly in that game.

thanks very much Darragh

darragh o meara

i spoke with a mate of mine who does doe tests today. Best bet is to have the windows tinted before you visit the tax office but also get it doe'd before you go in. Tell the doe centre that its been converted you will also need a wieght docket from a authourised weigh station thed tax office will you which ones they accept. If the jeep is doe'd when you go in there is nothing they can do once the holes are welded up for the seats and the belts. He only doe'd a 09 x6 that was brought over from the uk and it only had tint. Oh yeah if its a long wheel base with back doors whip out the fuse