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Window tinting

  • 14-09-2020 9:36am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭


    I'm I right in thinking it illegal to have front driver window and passenger window tinted. As I see yesterday at Junction car pulled out in front of motorbike bike went into side of it . Serious enough crash air ambulance and all . I guess car driver is fu%ked as it illegal to have windows tinted?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,733 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    A certain percentage is allowed. A good measure of where they become illegal is if you cant identify the person because tint is too heavy they are illegal. Gardai have a measuring device to calculate the tint.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Whocare


    A certain percentage is allowed. A good measure of where they become illegal is if you cant identify the person because tint is too heavy they are illegal. Gardai have a measuring device to calculate the tint.

    Yeah I say there was illegal tinted as passenger window was black could see nothing inside car


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,318 ✭✭✭Miscreant


    Whocare wrote: »
    I'm I right in thinking it illegal to have front driver window and passenger window tinted. As I see yesterday at Junction car pulled out in front of motorbike bike went into side of it . Serious enough crash air ambulance and all . I guess car driver is fu%ked as it illegal to have windows tinted?

    I think the car driver is "fu%ked" anyway if he pulled out in front of an oncoming vehicle at a junction regardless of whether his windows are tinted or not.... if the driver is found at fault.

    There are regulations on how tinted you can go on the windscreen, driver and front passenger windows (must allow at least 65% of visual light through). The rear windows and rear windscreen can go as dark as you like. The RSA has an information sheet on it: https://www.rsa.ie/Documents/VS_Information_Notes/Vehicle_Parts/FAQs%20on%20Window%20Tinting.pdf


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Whocare


    Miscreant wrote: »
    I think the car driver is "fu%ked" anyway if he pulled out in front of an oncoming vehicle at a junction regardless of whether his windows are tinted or not.... if the driver is found at fault.

    There are regulations on how tinted you can go on the windscreen, driver and front passenger windows (must allow at least 65% of visual light through). The rear windows and rear windscreen can go as dark as you like. The RSA has an information sheet on it: https://www.rsa.ie/Documents/VS_Information_Notes/Vehicle_Parts/FAQs%20on%20Window%20Tinting.pdf

    Yeah but windows being tinted clearly contributed to the crash so the insurance company might go after him for the cost of claim


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,318 ✭✭✭Miscreant


    Whocare wrote: »
    Yeah but windows being tinted clearly contributed to the crash so the insurance company might go after him for the cost of claim

    That'll be for the Insurance company and courts to determine at the end of the day.

    I hope the biker will recover as I imagine the car driver came out of it in a better condition.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,127 ✭✭✭kirving


    Very possibly, yes. Pretty much anything beyond manufacturer spec on front windows is illegal, as even "non-tinted" glass still effects light transmission levels.

    Obviously the driver should have seen the bike without tint, but very likely a strong contributing factor.

    On my last car, the external nearside mirror didn't auto-dim. I thought it had been broken and replaced with cheap glass as it looked odd, but turns out it's to help see cyclists coming up the left side at night - the manufacturer took tinting pretty seriously.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Whocare


    Miscreant wrote: »
    That'll be for the Insurance company and courts to determine at the end of the day.

    I hope the biker will recover as I imagine the car driver came out of it in a better condition.

    Serious but non-life-threatening injuries it say online when I Google it (news) car driver no injuries


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