Missouri Window Tint Laws, Rolla Police got me!

So I headed down to Rolla this morning for the Housing Corporation meeting for my fraternity, Lambda Chi Alpha.

I got there around 8am, averaged 80mph from start to finish, somewhere around 23.5mpg on the trip down 44.

I had breakfast at the house after spending an hour uselessly trying to get through to the Cardinals ticket line, my buddy spent that hour trying to get tickets online, he was chosen in the drawing to be able to buy online. He ended up with 2 tickets to game 5 of the world series, but I don't think he's gonna take me! That bastage ;)

So after breakfast the meeting was moved back to 11am, instead of 9am. So I took Dozzle out for a spin in the Z, to show him what it was like. On our way out of town in Rolla, on 10th street, I got pulled over. I didn't know for what, I hadn't been speeding, but I Thought of three 2 things it may be for.

1. No front license plate
2. No muffler

WRONG! I got pulled over because the cop saw how dark my windows were! Too funny!

 "I pulled you over because your windows look darker than the legal limit, do you know what that limit is?"
No officer, I  don't.
"It's 35% maximum on the front windows, please roll your window up a bit so I can test them"
He slid a little light meter over the driver's side window, the output read 4%, which I assume means that only 4% of all light will go through the window tint, as upposed to the legal limit of allowing at least 35% of all light through.
"I bet those st louis cops don't care, but down here we and the highway patrol care. Can I have your license please, I'm going to take this back to the car and give you a warning."
He came back and told me hemarked me in the system as a warning and asked that I please get the tint reduced to 35%.
He was actually very cool about the whole incident, which I think goes to prove that if you are nice to an officer they can generally be nice back to you.

Here's to you officer! I don't know a name though, he didn't even give me a paper warning!

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Published 16 October 04 05:41 by Christoc
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# Christoc said on October 17, 2004 9:07 PM:
Interesting. I drove the Celica around for almost a year with 15% all around, and never got pulled over. My car was black, and I think dark tint just looks great on a black car, so I didn't care it was way over the legal limit. I am guessing you are running 5%... Suprised you got pulled over, to be honest. I have heard of people being pulled over for tint, but I expected that during the course of a year that I would be too, and never did.

You are right about being nice to an officer, though... makes a big difference. Give them repect, and they return in kind, more often than not.
# Christoc said on December 23, 2004 12:27 AM:
I had 2.5 percent window tint on all of my windows on a black car. It looked great except when i got pulled over and i got the greatest reading from a cop light meter ever. it read a grand total of 1% thats it. I thought that was kindof a smack in the face to a legal limit, since you can't go darker without painting them. How great!
# Christoc said on January 5, 2005 10:42 AM:
i just got my 5% window tint on my Ford Ranger. Its a black truck so it looks unbelieveable. I live in the St.Louis area and never head of being pulled over for window tint. One thing is for sure I will not be takeing any trips to Rolla soon. O and a question for the guy with the Z. Did you reduce your Window Tent?
# Christoc said on March 24, 2005 1:33 PM:
man i live in wisconsin and got pulled over for having a 16.1% light reading. the officer was very nice but come on. u can see perfectly into my front side windows.
# Christoc said on June 14, 2005 10:51 AM:
I go to school in rolla and i have 20% on all of my windows. Never had a police officer even blink at me even with a sound system that can be heard well over 1/2 mile away...not only that, but i live like a block away from the police station. sounds like that first guy caught a cop on a bad day. I have several friends that also come down to rolla frequently with 5% all around, and never have problems.
# Christoc said on June 14, 2005 10:58 AM:
Heck no I didn't reduce my tint. And I've been down to Rolla since then!
# Christoc said on July 20, 2005 6:00 PM:
Well, I just got an $83 ticket for having 14% front tint.. sucks, only had the car 5 days :(
# Christoc said on July 20, 2005 6:04 PM:
I bought my camaro in Macon
# Christoc said on July 26, 2005 11:26 AM:
hey guys i'm a newcomer to the car game and i was wondering where i could get my tint over the legal limit done at ? ive called around and the places where i live will only do 35% i live in TN so if you would drop me a line
# Christoc said on July 26, 2005 4:35 PM:
any place I have been will do just about anything.

Oh, and for the ticket in macon, I complained, and got it squashed!
# Christoc said on August 17, 2005 10:26 PM:
have a toyota celica and want to put on mirror tint...is that illegal here...not from here so.....or can i GET a license to have it on?
# Big Fitch said on October 30, 2006 1:58 PM:
Just got Nailed $500 tint ticket!!! Jacksonville Illinois Cop was profiling. I drive this car all the time and in other states and never had a problem. First time my 16 year old bro drives it WHAM!!!! Nailed. WTF Dont come to Jacksonville They are pricks
# Matt said on October 30, 2006 5:29 PM:
I just got my 4th window tint ticket and had to go to court. The pricks there gave me 20 hrs community service, lost my liciense for 29 days, 500 word essay, and i have to retake my drivers training course. Over all it is retarded but window tint is totaly worth it and its going right back on 2x as dark
# josh said on November 27, 2006 7:19 PM:

i have a chevy corsica hatchback ( very rare ) everyone thinks it is a beretta cause  i got it painted black and all the embloms taken off so no one knows what it is.Got the windows tinted 5% all around.Kept getting pulled over.Tickets out the ass.My girlfriend just got a ticket for it and the cop was really nice about it.Said he would tear up the ticket if i changed the tint on the front 2 windows to 50%.So i am going to do it.It sucks because it looks great.Most cops are asses about it so i am going to retent the others to 2.5% because they give me *** about the back window cause they claim they have to be able to see how many people are in it.But OHIO LAW says except the front two windows( 50% ) all others can be as dark as you want.After i change it i cant wait until i get pulled over so i can be a ass cause for once the law is on my side. Oh an idea i was thinking about doing for, it might take some saving up for but for all you big ballers out there that love dark ass *** tint like me.Find a custom shop that would do anything and have them put bigger door panels on your car to have an extra window.One with your preferred tint % and one with legal tint.Hide the button for the one that is illegal.If you have money or can save then it might be something to think about, depends how much you like dark tint.Me personaly i love it.Its personal and private if you know what i mean in more ways then 1.I am saving right now for it.Just an idea.                                                                                                                  Ohio Law                                                                                                                    front side windows-50% all others as dark as your eyes desire. IF your unsure what your state law is go to www.windowtint.com HAVE A NICE DAY.

# steve said on December 15, 2006 2:26 AM:

i got pulled over for 2% in missouri. anyone know how much it will cost?

# Bryan said on January 26, 2007 12:07 AM:

Hey i jsut got a 2% tonight in missouri these cops are dicks, if they don't have anything better to do than to bust kids for tint then I guess the worlds safer than I thought? Yea right they are just filing a quota

# Michael Hook said on April 1, 2007 6:07 PM:

sc they have to give you a ticket in conjuction with another ticket for window tint!

# Mexi said on April 11, 2007 4:36 PM:

i have 20% in my subaru, and i got hit for it in iowa.  it was bout $60 if i remember correctly.  not the first time its happened to me, but first ticket.  Usually they would pull me over for that cause they have no other reason to, and once they got me stopped they just want to be pricks and search my car in hopes to find something illegal and when they found nothing they left me alone.  if u have a nice car it doesn't mean ur a drug dealer, and they don't need to search it every time u get pulled over imho.  

# Mark said on April 14, 2007 4:19 PM:

I live in Indiana. IN has a 30% tint law. I have limo tint on my truck. Had it installed  the summer of 2003. I have been pulled over for speeding and was  not  issued a fine for my dark tint lol.

# Josh said on August 12, 2007 8:02 PM:

I got stopped today and the Missouri state trooper gauged my windows and it read 2% and he gave me a ticket, but he didnt have me sign it, and he didnt put a court date on it or even a time, will the ticket get thrown out since he didnt have me sign it?????

# Justin said on August 27, 2007 11:51 PM:

I just got 1.5% on my ford mustang.

# ryan said on September 21, 2007 3:36 PM:

well this is my 3rd ticket from mo highway patrol. and it costs 107.00. so sunday i am getting it teared off. the Mo highway patrol is 100% much stricter on this than ever before. Good luck to all you tinted windows.

# Josh said on October 25, 2007 2:46 PM:

I was pulled over in Bridgeton MO for the tint on my s-10(dropped 5 in front, 6 in back), 8% past the limit... no warning... $100 mail in ticket, which just screwed my insurance for my 25th birthday.  3 miles over in Florissant, someone is probably being robbed or shot, but I understand pulling over a hard working guy who likes lowriders and slapping him with a ticket is priority.  Jerk.

# Christoc said on October 25, 2007 8:10 PM:

Why would a tint ticket go on your insurance? It's not a moving violation?

# biggy said on November 28, 2007 5:03 PM:

i just got a rear window ticket its 2.5 and its not even illegal but somehow he gave me a ticket still

# Willie said on December 17, 2007 6:18 PM:

I live in Wisconsin and I have a Lifted F150 with exhaust. 5% in the front windows and 2.5% in the two rear windows and 2.5% over my tail lights so you can barely see them when their on... Never got pulled over yet..  *knocks on wood*

# Adam Mulligan said on January 4, 2008 8:53 PM:

I have been pulled over 5 times in Missouri for 5% window tint all the way around. I have recieved 1 ticket and it cost $81. I just got a warning today from the Osage Beach police and I have to get it corrected in 7 days and take it to the station for them to check and he said he would not give me the ticket if I did. But, if I dont, he said he will mail me the ticket? I thought only Highway Patrolmen had the meeters and could inforce the law but now everyone is getting the meters and inforcing it. This sucks.

# DanPI said on March 3, 2008 11:19 AM:

I received 2 tickets within a few days for having 12% tinting om my driver side and passenger side windows.  I was nice to the officers.  One was received in Fenton Missouri by a St. Louis County Officer.  I was driving with my windows up.  I was told I had 30 days to comply by having the tinting maximum to 35%.  Before I could have the tinting removed, I was pulled over in Des Peres, Missouri a few days later.  My driver side window was all the way down while I was driving.  Passenger window was up.  The officer told me that he could see the tinting through the window that was down.  What a bunch of BS!  I stated that the Highway Patrol told me that If I drove with my windows down I would be ok,  he still gave me a ticket.   The tinting was the only reason I was pulled over.  I beleive it is about the revenue in my case.  They just want the money.  The officer passed me on my left and turned around to pull me over.  I drove home and removed the tinting.  I never received a warning for my tinting.  It has been on the car since I bought it new in 99.

# Nick said on March 27, 2008 5:47 PM:

Just got a ticket today in Rolla, for having 15% for $83 needless to say I was a bit pissed, I bought the car used, but o' well I've had it for 2 and a half years and only one ticket, not going to change it because of some dike that had to meet her quota.

# jon said on July 28, 2008 8:28 PM:

steve i got pulled over to...the pricks hit me with a $102.00 fine...they said if i lightened up the front to and make it legal they would drop the fine to 52.00 ...so generous...after he tacked all this *** onto my speeding ticket...there pricks in my book..i have been nothing but kind and respectful and look...no mercy...well *&%k em...

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