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Driving through Rosyth this morning I saw a beat up Vauxhall Astra with blacked out windows. If Beyonce was going to visit Rosyth, I think she'd choose a more exclusive form of transport. I was then passed by someone in a flashy Audi A6 with the same window treatment. Why would anyone want to black out their car windows and be lumped along with the chavs?
Why would anyone want to black out their car windows and be lumped along with the chavs?
Er, they are chavs?
Thats what it said to me.
Surley if its an estate then its good for privacy for camping, 10 under the ben etc
good for keeping your bikes & stuff out of sight from scumbags
Undertaker's 'lifting' car?
It's stylin' innit.
I was thinking a similar thing last week. Regarding the hiding bike etc thing - it doesn't really work does it as you can still see through the windows to a certain extent. And if I was a thief then I'd be more inclined to look in the window of a blacked out car on the assumption that the owner has something to hide.
it's stops peodos looking at your kids in the back seat.
Mine are blacked out on my estate. It keeps the sun out of the kids eyes in the back. And the scrotes can't see into the back, which quite often has my bike in
Oh... and I'm actually Tim Westwood
It's about pretending to be a pimp, innit.
"stops peodos [sic] looking at your kids" - LOL
though i look at it the other way.
Blacked out windows means either, there is something to hide, or the person thinks that they are safe to leave thier phone/laptop/bike in the back BECAUSE they have blacked out windows.
so even if there is nothing inside, its worth putting a brick through the window just to check.
they may not be able to get your bike out the window, but youve had the window smashed in.
Hmmm, I have been thinking about getting the rear windows of my car tinted. Figured it would stop casual thieves seeing what was on display.
Can't decide whether to or not.
they may not be able to get your bike out the window
damn pedalphiles, hang the lot of them i say
Oh... and I'm actually Tim Westwood
you can't be - I met you once & you're definitely not black
Liar, liar, pants on fire
😀
WE"RE BLASTING OFF BABY!!!!
it means no one is going to let you out of a side street because they dont know if your looking or not
While we are at it, why do drivers with tinted windows insist on wearing sunglasses while driving?
erm - you can't legally have your front side windows tinted much more than the standard manufacturer tint anyway, so being let out of junctions should be the least of your worries if you have them limo black.
Lots of people do though.
I was just going to get my rear side and rear screen done a mid-tint to keep my bike out of plain view and also the pile of camping stuff that sometimes sits in the back during the summer.
"it means no one is going to let you out of a side street because they dont know if your looking or not"
No, thats actually illegal now, you have to have the front windows and windscreen clear.
you can tint the front side windows to a degree, but not fully.
das politzie have a little doo dah that measures the tint.
the front allowed is minimal, but it doesnt have to be totally clear.
Perhaps they just like the privacy. 😕
ive heard of a celeb who is quite often picked up from places in london (no joke) in an old mates beaten up old astra as it the last thing people expect.. 😉
i've the rear of my car done mainly because you cant see what's in the back (bits of bikes, some tools and my scuddy books).
Also it looks the bling innit*
* not really true as I have a berlingo
Olly - Member
though i look at it the other way.
Blacked out windows means either, there is something to hide, or the person thinks that they are safe to leave thier phone/laptop/bike in the back BECAUSE they have blacked out windows.
so even if there is nothing inside, its worth putting a brick through the window just to check
Carried the dead in with blacked out windows for years..... treat the car like a slag and never worried about where I park or leave it but never been broken into
Olly - Member
though i look at it the other way.Blacked out windows means either, there is something to hide, or the person thinks that they are safe to leave thier phone/laptop/bike in the back BECAUSE they have blacked out windows.
so even if there is nothing inside, its worth putting a brick through the window just to check
another thing is that for some blacked out windows, the tinting prevents shattering of the glass and is also quite difficult to penetrate. So for the scummy opportunity thief, it acts as a deterrent as its lot of hastle & time consuming to potentially find nothing worth nicking. (unless of course they do the locks instead)
People do silly things to Astras, Novas, Saxos etc etc etc...
Loads of cars come with black rear windows as standard - mine included. Failing to see any negatives tbh
I've been a bit torn with this, I first saw it as advertising content, but then later realised that when looking about a carpark, especially in low light, you don't tend to "see" cars with tinted windows specifically, you tend to see odd stuff, things sticking up, highly coloured things. Black (or highly tinted) windows sort of blend into the background. ~Add to that the fact that, as said above, its a damn sight harder to get through a tinted window so takes more time, I think it provides an overall deterrent, but at the end of the day I have had my windows smashed and my boot searched in an empty car, as have members of my family - it seems they either do it pro-actively to find stuff, or see stuff and react. It's swings and roundabouts, but I think there's overall added security rather than reduced, as it removes that immediately visible bright green bike that catches the eye in a carpark full of other more expensive cars when you've stopped for a bite to eat. That said I still lock my bikes into my car, but I will probably be tinting my estate when I get chance, it does look better regardless of what it's associated with, I don't do things for what other people think.
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My mate has Limo tint on the rears and a tint on the fronts. He did it to keep the car cool in the summer & for added security.
I must admit, it makes a hell of a difference! He can get in the car and drive off as soon as he opens the car up. My car has a nearly non existent tint and in the summer you cannot drive for at least 10 minutes, otherwise you are welded to the seats. Well I mean, on the two days of summer we get!
CK is that a new language???
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worth a punt...
Whhheeey Horaah for me 🙂
my back van windows are tinted (innit) they dont open so it stops me back passengers sweating in the mid day sun, plus stops any theiving scrotes seeing my bikes or mx bike when its in the van.
a chav seeing an mx bike in a van is like fat kid being faced with a cake tin.
ayz keep ma windas blaked out coz it luks rite wkd! speziali wen rolin wiv ma crew....iniit
Driving through Rosyth this morning I saw a beat up Vauxhall Astra with blacked out windows.
...and you were surprised? Thank **** I moved away from that sh1te hole.
The things I dislike about the current trend of privacy glass as standard fit on vehicles are:
Difficulty in pulling out of a car park space due to not being able to see through the windows of the car next to you.
Difficulty at T-junctions and roundabouts, unable or reduced ability to read the road as every car with privacy glass alongside you is the same as a van/truck.
Having used vehicles with privacy glass I also recognise the benefits too.
They're just shy.
Or they're snorting huge lines of cocaine and shagging prostitutes.
agoraphobic doggers
the tinting prevents shattering of the glass and is also quite difficult to penetrate
quite the opposite actually the tinted film holds all the shattered parts together so you can take the broken glass out pretty much whole, a particular bonus if you want to steel the car rather than something out of the car, you don't get broken glass stuck in your arse, and you don't need to try and clean out all the broken shards before you fence it
and the best bit - with the film fitted the window breaks almost silently, and what you do hear sounds nothing like glass being broken.
So tinting the windows in the hope of avoiding theft is just going to result in getting the window broken just to have a casual look around, as you can break it without worrying about attracting attention.
If you own a van something you have to get used to is your empty van getting broken into regularly just for a nosy.
Maybe they just like it? You know, different people, different tastes and all that is it really that painful to you?
Someone explained to me once that it meant that people couldn't see your kids and "you can't be too careful these days...". Get back to yer Daily Mail eejit.
I think blacked-out windows probably do work a bit for security but what puts me off doing it is that I like as much daylight as possible, particularly at this time of year. I hate that slightly gloomy feel you get with tinted windows like we have at work and I don't want to add that to my driving experience.
There are metallic silver tints you can have applied that fall below the maximum allowed, which IIRC is 30%, so you can have all the side and rear windows done, the beauty being it reflects back even more heat and light, but, like those fashion ’sunglasses', which have a flash mirror coating, you can see quite clearly through the glass from the inside on really dull days. Two-way mirror, innit. Looks particularly good on silver cars, you can make an Audi RS6 Avant look like a 200mph delivery vehicle...
I thought another reason was people couldn't see you skinning up / smoking in the back
Curses, rumbled.
To avoid the sniper. 😆
Can you put the silver tint on the windscreen?
Friend of mine gets car-sick when traveling in the rear of vehicle with tinted windows (I just get embarassed, think the tints make you look a right t*t. People with tinted windows usually drive around with their foglights on too)
Are people more prone to get car sick if they can't see out as well or is it down to the driving of the owner of the car in question? He's a 40 year old policeman FFS, not some 15yr old chav, don't know what he's thinking of.
Can you put the silver tint on the windscreen?
yes, but only on the inside 🙂
Standard issue here in Oz. Stops your car turning into a furnace in the summer. But then we get more than 5 mins of sunshine. & we can also do the front sides too.
I might be buying a FTO which has tinted windows. How do i remove the tint?
Smash the windows and get autoglass to replace them 🙄
Surely they're for people with ugly kids?
or maybe they just did not want to look at your ugly mush, mcmunter!!
if they want blacked out windows, so what, leave them be!!
My experience of them in scrap yards is certainly not that the film makes it easier and quieter to break or removing in one piece, and certainly not less messy, but each to his own.
I just get amazed by the number of people who actually care what other people do with their cars when it doesnt affect them.