POLICE got me again......

[Russ103]

anyone have a magnetic gray gen 2 without window tint? If you do can you send me a pic from the side?? cops where I live cant go outside to inspect your vehicle due to covid but will sign off my fix it ticket if I show them picture.... google didn't have anything good.

I know its a lot to ask but help a raptor out

WTF?? But they can be outside writing chicken sh*t tickets for tint?

 

[smurfslayer]

Tinting laws are meant to be ignored. Ditto front tag

So, MANY years ago a really good friend of mine bought a clean, nice 350 ’72 Cutlass in the traditional Oldsmobile green. Not super fast but not slow either. Not long after buying it, he’s stopped and for no other reason than there was nothing better to do, he’s roadside interrogated, refuses consent search and is detained. Drug dog called, arrives some time later and what do you know - dog “alerts” where handler tells him to alert, which in MD gives the green light for a search which reveals.

Nothing.

Aside from about 2.5 hours of wasted time as the local PD tears the car apart trying to find something - ANYTHING to justify the stop. They found nothing, because my buddy was as straight as they come; Boy Scout level. He gets a warning and on his way.

They way I know this was not a stop with reasonable suspicion - cops put everything back like they found it. Anyone in LE knows, this doesn’t happen.

You can flaunt tint, plate and other petty infraction laws you want but I have better things to do with my time than sit on the side of the road discussing the finer points of detention, in custody, reasonable suspicion and at what point I am free to return to my lawful business.

 

[Todd Turbo S]

Given I live in CA, this is exactly why I keep it legally with a 70% VLT for the front windows.

 

[isis]

So, MANY years ago a really good friend of mine bought a clean, nice 350 ’72 Cutlass in the traditional Oldsmobile green. Not super fast but not slow either. Not long after buying it, he’s stopped and for no other reason than there was nothing better to do, he’s roadside interrogated, refuses consent search and is detained. Drug dog called, arrives some time later and what do you know - dog “alerts” where handler tells him to alert, which in MD gives the green light for a search which reveals.

Nothing.

Aside from about 2.5 hours of wasted time as the local PD tears the car apart trying to find something - ANYTHING to justify the stop. They found nothing, because my buddy was as straight as they come; Boy Scout level. He gets a warning and on his way.

They way I know this was not a stop with reasonable suspicion - cops put everything back like they found it. Anyone in LE knows, this doesn’t happen.

You can flaunt tint, plate and other petty infraction laws you want but I have better things to do with my time than sit on the side of the road discussing the finer points of detention, in custody, reasonable suspicion and at what point I am free to return to my lawful business.

I don’t tint the front doors because this is exactly what happens in PA

 

[The Car Stereo Company]

Given I live in CA, this is exactly why I keep it legally with a 70% VLT for the front windows.

you are forgetting, automotive manufacturers already bake a 70% into the glass. so in california, ANYTHING you put on your front windows are illegal. however you can get away with a light shade, im guessing op has something dark on the front. the back windows can be as dark as you want.

 

[tooloud10]

I wish I had the right color Raptor to help the OP out, and I'm embarrassed for anyone lecturing him for doing what he can to get out of a stupid tint ticket that simply has no reason to even exist.

 

[Nxtr06]

Roll both windows do and shoot a picture on an old cell phone. It may get you by the fix it ticket, but not the fix you’ll be in when said officer sees you in your Raptor again.

 

[scubamike]

let me rephrase my question. I have a 2018 gen 2 magnet gray in color. My windows are tinted and I want to know what they look like without the tint. can you take a pic from the side if you have one?


At least I was honest guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[The Car Stereo Company]

haha. california has stupid laws made by stupid politicians.this is one of them. most the cops i know say its a ******** ticket, but law is law and until its changed, will be unlawful in the state.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

you are forgetting, automotive manufacturers already bake a 70% into the glass. so in california, ANYTHING you put on your front windows are illegal. however you can get away with a light shade, im guessing op has something dark on the front. the back windows can be as dark as you want.

70-80% full ceramic on the windshield and no cop will ever tell.

@scubamike I have a medical exemption, so my recommendation would be to date a dermatologist lol probably much safer thing to do in case the cop(s) say okay, let’s walk outside and see your truck after you show the picture.