Never really found it an issue on mine in all honesty! However I do have a rear camera... MY14 Kahn Converted Dynamic - Fuji White Ebony/Pimento Interior
MY15 Xenon Headlight Conversion

MY17 RRS SVR - Estoril Blue Cirrus/Ebony 🪣💺’s

english yeoman wrote:

I once had my private plate made up with a font that looked normal to the naked eye but really confused their beloved Automatic Number-plate recognition machines and they went nuts - used to pull me over and follow me home all the time - got fed up and although they never fined me, the sheer hassle was enough to get me to fix it.

Thats a good point about visibility in the dark, I'm lazy and rely on my parking sensors though

Think the darker I go the better contrast there will be on a grey car. Plus for security think I'll be going with limo on all back and leave the dr and pss sides alone.

Just booked mine in for Thurs £140 Dark Smoke .

I've decided against tints and am going for a set of UV blinds for mine - had them on an X-Type estate - looked just as good as tints and because they are easily removed I sold them on when I got rid of the car
PLUS only about £60 a set these days  No Longer the owner of a 2013MY Fuji White GS

"Fiat Lux" a philosophy not a car

I read somewhere that it was originally proposed that cars in places like Spain, Portugal, Greece etc where they have a lot of sunshine could tint all windows including the front ones but that in places like Norway, Finland etc this would be a problem especially in the dark winters. The EU wanted a one size fits all solution hence the current rule of clear at the front and tints in the back if you want them. 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

EU

In the Philippines car jacking is so common that the police encourage you to have limo tints on the front. This would be dangerous on the fronts as it will impair your vision at night!

A U.S. motorcycle company a few years back where testing tinted helmet visors and there findings were that a 50% tinted visor did not impair much vision against their 70% tinted visors when driving at night. The level of impairment was so small that they could not measure the level accurately. However they never seemed to challenge the U.S. law. Some states in the U.S. also require the front drops to be 70% tint. MY14 Kahn Converted Dynamic - Fuji White Ebony/Pimento Interior
MY15 Xenon Headlight Conversion

MY17 RRS SVR - Estoril Blue Cirrus/Ebony 🪣💺’s

Last edited by LR NUT on 21st Jun 2015 9:15 pm. Edited 2 times in total

westville wrote:

I've decided against tints and am going for a set of UV blinds for mine - had them on an X-Type estate - looked just as good as tints and because they are easily removed I sold them on when I got rid of the car
PLUS only about £60 a set these days

Blinds on mine, daughter not keen on tints so this solves the problem, 2 minutes to take out and refit

Click image to enlarge

Looking good - thanks for the pic gives me an idea of what a FL looks like with them fitted.
As I said earlier I have used them on a previous car without any problems No Longer the owner of a 2013MY Fuji White GS

"Fiat Lux" a philosophy not a car

Front windows are almost at maximum with production tint.
In Northern Ireland MOT's are carried out by government stations to exactly same regulations as rest of UK except they use a Lux Meter to check tinted glass on front door glass.
About 12 years ago (before I retired) Range Rover Vogues failed 1st MOT on factory tinted front windows.
A number of them came over on ferry to Scotland where we did not have meters, and still don't, to be tested and they passed as we only did a visual check and were perfectly satisfied that they met the requirements. This was eventually sorted out by VOSA. All FL2's (3) Gone
2011 Mercedes C180 CGI Gone
FL2 GS Auto SD with heated leather, factory tints, alloy spare and a few other bits.

VOSA  MY14 Kahn Converted Dynamic - Fuji White Ebony/Pimento Interior
MY15 Xenon Headlight Conversion

MY17 RRS SVR - Estoril Blue Cirrus/Ebony 🪣💺’s

Just had mine tinted yesterday Dark Smoke