Got stopped for slightly illegal tint...
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From: Virginia
I wish it was that easy in MD. In MD it is not a ticket you can pay, it’s an inspection ticket where you have to get it metered at an inspection station and if it fails you have to somehow get an inspection station to sign off which is mostly through removal of the film.
Yup, good ol Commonwealth. The state trooper even told me it would probably be cheaper and easier to just pay the prepayable fine rather than getting it redone and then having to miss a day of work to go to court and prove it was redone. Then after that he complimented my car and was asking how fast it is because he wants one lmao.
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Yup, good ol Commonwealth. The state trooper even told me it would probably be cheaper and easier to just pay the prepayable fine rather than getting it redone and then having to miss a day of work to go to court and prove it was redone. Then after that he complimented my car and was asking how fast it is because he wants one lmao.
I'm sure they see fast and/or impressive-looking cars every day in their line of work.
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Not a fast car lol, a GS. He wasn’t saying my car was fast or that he was impressed for that reason. He complimented how the car looked and then he was asking how fast it was because he actually wanted one. This was in the country where you don’t see a lot of luxury sport sedans (my car is a 2013 and he thought it was a brand new car haha).
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Tint Laws suck as does the No Front plate.
I have paid way too much $$$$$ and these loser cops get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to stop people instead of doing actual police work.
I have paid way too much $$$$$ and these loser cops get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to stop people instead of doing actual police work.
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Well, first, police work, by its very nature, involves a lot more than just dealing with violent crime...that's an over-simplfication and stereotype. Second, no one forces you to break the law, though I will admit that one thing this thread proves is that, on the subject of tint, what is legal and what isn't is not always easy to define. Third, I don't quite see why you think that the NO-front-plate laws s***.
Most car owners complain about the very opposite.....the requirement to HAVE a front plate. They don't like the way their car looks with it.
Last edited by mmarshall; Jul 6, 2018 at 08:36 PM.
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From: Maryland
The good thing about the no front plate ticket in MD vs the tint ticket is that it is just a fine, not an inspection ticket so it’s easy just to pay the $50 (or whatever it is now) and move on. I wish we didn’t need a front plate, I hate the way it looks on most cars.
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Then how do police muddle through in states without front plate laws?
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We are in an age of much more advanced technology to track a stolen car.
Its just revenue for government.
Tint Law is just as bad especially now that most Vehicles sold are SUVs/Trucks which have dark tint from factory.
So many horrible laws. I was in hamptons for 4th of July - driving between 70 to 90mph depending on traffic flow and its just comical to see the sign says State Speed Limit 55MPH when slowest car was doing 70mph!
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That doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Having two plates instead of one increases the chance by 50% that the vehicle will be identified by police.....unless the plates have been swapped for illegitimate or stolen ones, which, if caught, will only add to the charges that the perpetrators already face.
Sure, we've got LoJack, roadside cameras, helicopters, and a bunch of other devices. But, in the end, the (legitimate) license plate is still the official ID of the vehicle.
Its not any significant added revenue for the second plate, for two reasons. First, states set their official registration fees by legislative action, not by the number of plates. Second, if you are not already aware of it, license plates themselves are usually made by inmates at the state penitentiary.....and the chump-change they are paid for their prison labor would make even people on minimum-wage look wealthy. 
We are in an age of much more advanced technology to track a stolen car.
is just revenue for government.
Last edited by mmarshall; Jul 7, 2018 at 02:37 PM.