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Just before the xmas break I took the brumby in to get it's windows tinted. When I got it back I thought the tinting on the windows looked heaps darker than the tinting on the windscreen didn't bother too much about it at the time. That night I had a better look at it and the windscreen wasn't even tinted!

Now the place I got it done at seems to be on a xmas break so I haven't been able to get ahold of them and find out what's going on chances are it was a genuine mistake.

Then the other day somebody told me that when you get windows tinted they don't do the windscreen ... Is that true? I don't wanna call up / go see these guys only to find out that I'm a newb and should have known they don't do them, but at the same time, if they should have, then I need to take it back and get the job finished.

as far as i know it,s not legal to tint a windscreen....only the very top part is ok i think

Very true - You may already have a slight factory tint in the windscreen - but you can't have tint film on it. They should only have done the front two door windows and the back window.

WARNING – WINDOW TINTING STANDARDS

A work order may be imposed on a vehicle under the Road Traffic Act if the tinting applied to its windows has:
• Visible light transmittance of less than 35% when measured through both the glass and film together or
• Reflectance in the visible light range is more than 20%. (10% after 1 November, 2002) or
• Wrinkled, blistered, bubbled, or discoloured such that visibility through the glass and film is impaired. (Note that a standard car window glass may have a low transmittance level even before tinting).

No tinting is permitted on the windscreen except on:
• The area above the highest point of the windscreen that is swept by a windscreen wiper, or
• The upper 10% of the windscreen

http://www.dpi.wa.gov.au/mediaFiles/lic_CI-103A.pdf

Equivalent for QLD -:

http://www.transport.qld.gov.au/qt/LTAS ... an05v2.pdf

Cool thanks guys

Now I don't have to look like a newb! well except on here but you guys don't count :P

Only cos you're the boss . . .