Got pulled yesterday...
FckYoCouch
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From: Norfolk, VA
Re: Got pulled yesterday...
I'm so glad I have TX plates........and drive a domestic... 
Vehicular racism is working for me...
edit: before someone reads too deep into the above statement... I'm not bashing imports... Just pointing out the inequality in the system.. Plus, I like / want a few of them too...
Vehicular racism is working for me...edit: before someone reads too deep into the above statement... I'm not bashing imports... Just pointing out the inequality in the system.. Plus, I like / want a few of them too...
Last edited by rtcarlin; Mar 8, 2010 at 01:51 PM.
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From: Chesapeake, VA
Re: Got pulled yesterday...
i have to pay like $92 for a 20% tint ticket. cop measured front windows 19% and back windows 3% theres a huge diffrence between those two. i took it to the window tint shop and it measured 20% all around..was it fucked with?
miata fag
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From: Norfolk
Re: Got pulled yesterday...
I got a tint ticket the 1st day I came to virginia (even though the car isn't from Virginia), so I looked into the law for it. The side windows are the ones that are a problem, even though the cop usually tells you that you can't have tint anywhere on the car. your tint is way too dark for this to help you, but unlike how cops like to tell people, window tinting is legal in Virginia.
3. Except as provided in § 46.2-1053, but notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, no sun-shading or tinting film may be applied or affixed to any window of a motor vehicle unless such motor vehicle is equipped with a mirror on each side of such motor vehicle, so located as to reflect to the driver of the vehicle a view of the highway for at least 200 feet to the rear of such vehicle, and the sun-shading or tinting film is applied or affixed in accordance with the following:
1. No sun-shading or tinting films may be applied or affixed to the rear side windows or rear window or windows of any motor vehicle operated on the highways of this Commonwealth that reduce the total light transmittance of such window to less than thirty-five percent;
2. No sun-shading or tinting films may be applied or affixed to the front side windows of any motor vehicle operated on the highways of this Commonwealth that reduce total light transmittance of such window to less than fifty percent;
3. No sun-shading or tinting films shall be applied or affixed to any window of a motor vehicle that (i) have a reflectance of light exceeding twenty percent or (ii) produce a holographic or prism effect.
1. No sun-shading or tinting films may be applied or affixed to the rear side windows or rear window or windows of any motor vehicle operated on the highways of this Commonwealth that reduce the total light transmittance of such window to less than thirty-five percent;
2. No sun-shading or tinting films may be applied or affixed to the front side windows of any motor vehicle operated on the highways of this Commonwealth that reduce total light transmittance of such window to less than fifty percent;
3. No sun-shading or tinting films shall be applied or affixed to any window of a motor vehicle that (i) have a reflectance of light exceeding twenty percent or (ii) produce a holographic or prism effect.
Last edited by OCD; Mar 9, 2010 at 02:28 AM. Reason: my spelling sucks
ineedtochangemyname
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From: Va Beachhhh
Re: Got pulled yesterday...
advice to op: if your time is valuable to you, prepay the ticket. i went today for the exact same thing and though i saved $30, i wasted three hours of my life. as stated before, you have to pay to play.
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Re: Got pulled yesterday...
court costs are 66 dollars you have to pay regardless whether you get off or not....virginia beach traffic court for fix it tickets go like this you go in the clerk comes out before the judge even comes out and says "if your pleading guilty go pay your fines, if you plead innocent you can plead your case to the judge" so either way you'll have to pay 66 bucks if you fix it they'll take off the actual fine but thats only if you have documentation which taking it to a shop is gonna run you more than the $30 fine. so my advice take the hit cause if you go in there saying the tip is just different the judge is just gonna say "well thats still modified" and your still gonna have to pay the fees. virginia traffic courts suck they treat it like criminal court.....YOU RAN A STOP SIGN!!!!! im gonna suspend your license cause thats the worst thing you could ever do!
ineedtochangemyname
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From: Va Beachhhh
Re: Got pulled yesterday...
court costs are 66 dollars you have to pay regardless whether you get off or not....virginia beach traffic court for fix it tickets go like this you go in the clerk comes out before the judge even comes out and says "if your pleading guilty go pay your fines, if you plead innocent you can plead your case to the judge" so either way you'll have to pay 66 bucks if you fix it they'll take off the actual fine but thats only if you have documentation which taking it to a shop is gonna run you more than the $30 fine. so my advice take the hit cause if you go in there saying the tip is just different the judge is just gonna say "well thats still modified" and your still gonna have to pay the fees. virginia traffic courts suck they treat it like criminal court.....YOU RAN A STOP SIGN!!!!! im gonna suspend your license cause thats the worst thing you could ever do!
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Re: Got pulled yesterday...
lol. i think we got pulled by the same cop. i was near the kellys on laskin. she basically told me the same thing. i have asked around and i am going to just pay the fine. im not wasting my time with court. although i thought about registering my car elsewhere but i dont think it will matter to vbpd. anyway good luck.
miata fag
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From: Norfolk
Re: Got pulled yesterday...
lol. i think we got pulled by the same cop. i was near the kellys on laskin. she basically told me the same thing. i have asked around and i am going to just pay the fine. im not wasting my time with court. although i thought about registering my car elsewhere but i dont think it will matter to vbpd. anyway good luck.