Canada is a little different than the United States when it comes to laws and regulations. Normally, here in the U.S., if you’re pulled over for too dark of tint, a ticket follows or possibly even a warning to return it to a legal shade.
However, the Canucks are pretty serious about window and taillight tinting, and the Canadian government doesn’t quite care for your tastes. One C7 Corvette from the Corvette Forum driver found out the hard way when he was stopped in British Columbia and had his vehicle impounded. Not ticketed, but impounded.
To be fair, the tint here is really, really dark. We doubt the rear taillamps even light up much when the brakes are applied with pitch black tint like that.
While the tint isn’t our cup of tea, it’s a “to each their own” ordeal. However, if you risk losing your car over it, is it worth it?
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Is that limo tint or?
California does this as they consider it a safety issue because the limo tint diminishes visibility especially at night; although they usually give a ticket and 30 days to make a fix before they take your car.
This is a provincial rule, nothing to do with the entire country.
In BC it’s a ticket for tinting your front windows and a notice to remove the tint. Which means this person had been ticketed before, didn’t fix the tint (or put it back on) and the cop decided to impound. This isn’t news. This is just a douche driver.
Whoever wrote this article sounds like the same dumb people on the forum link. This is provincial as a poster mentioned above. No different than any other country. He was also warned before (no ticket given), never fixed the tint, then got busted again on an alpine road with the window tint, brake light tint, licence plate cover (they block out the toll radar cams), no front plate and no winter tires which are technically required for that stretch due to elevation (it still doesn’t ever snow there).
Learn to read more than the first two sentences in a linked article…
if they used polaroid tint on the rear lights and you have on polaroid sunglasses you can not see the brake light come on. I know this from experience as I almost hit a fellow corvette owner on a road trip.
Good for BC.
In Ontario, we have some really crazy stuff going on including illegal HIDs, heavy tinting, straight exhaust, and ridiculous frame dragging drops mostly from Asians. It’s time to enforce the laws!
Good for them! I am tired of seeing vehicles here in Michigan driving around with what is obviously illegal window and headlight/taillight tinting. Another factor is the fact that law enforcement approaches any vehicle that they have no visibility into as a threat level high!