from my understanding, anything that blocks the light output is considered illegal. i wanted to get overlays in the links below, but i don't want to pay for a fix it ticket now that the fee has increased.

http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y42...ent=tgtr2a.jpg

http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y42...ent=tgtr2c.jpg

http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y42...t=IMGP3583.jpg

http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y42...t=IMGP3584.jpg

cliff notes:
1 - have you gotten a ticket for tint/overlays on head/tail lights?
2 - do you think i'll get a ticket if i buy the above items?

 

You can get ticketed for it. But I've seen TONS of cars with similar deals running around.

I think as long as your tail lights are visible from 1000 feet and your headlights function isn't altered you'd be fine.

I generally hate the look personally and a lot of these peoples lights are dull as hell. These don't seem to dull the lights.

Besides. If they're overlays you can just take them off and pay the fix it ticket.

 

DOT states that your taillights need to be visible from 150 yards (IIRC).

As long as it is visible from that distance, you shouldn't have a problem: however it is cop bait.

 

I cannot find the CVC section that specifically says you cannot modify light output, but it is there. Maybe someone else can dig for it.

I have been rocking tail tint for over a year. I have been hassled for front window tint, license plate tinted cover, and no front plate...but not for the tails. I carry a copy of the appropriate code section with my insurance stuff

Headlight tint is for ricers, so you won't get any help from me

CVC regarding light colors, etc:

http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc25950.htm

Color of Lamps and Reflectors

25950. This section applies to the color of lamps and to any reflector exhibiting or reflecting perceptible light of 0.05 candela or more per foot-candle of incident illumination. Unless provided otherwise, the color of lamps and reflectors upon a vehicle shall be as follows:

(a) The emitted light from all lamps and the reflected light from all reflectors, visible from in front of a vehicle, shall be white or yellow, except as follows:

(1) Rear side marker lamps required by Section 25100 may show red to the front.

(2) The color of foglamps described in Section 24403 may be in the color spectrum from white to yellow.

(3) An illuminating device, as permitted under Section 24255, shall emit radiation predominantly in the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Any incidental visible light projecting to the front of the vehicle shall be predominantly yellow to white. Any incidental visible light projecting to the rear of the vehicle shall be predominantly red. Any incidental visible light from an illuminating device, as permitted under Section 24255, shall not resemble any other required or permitted lighting device or official traffic control device.

(b) The emitted light from all lamps and the reflected light from all reflectors, visible from the rear of a vehicle, shall be red except as follows:

(1) Stoplamps on vehicles manufactured before January 1, 1979, may show yellow to the rear.

(2) Turn signal lamps may show yellow to the rear.

(3) Front side marker lamps required by Section 25100 may show yellow to the rear.

(4) Backup lamps shall show white to the rear.

(5) The rearward facing portion of a front-mounted double-faced turn signal lamp may show amber to the rear while the headlamps or parking lamps are lighted, if the intensity of the light emitted is not greater than the parking lamps and the turn signal function is not impaired.

(6) A reflector meeting the requirements of and installed in accordance with Section 24611 shall be red or white, or both.

(c) All lamps and reflectors visible from the front, sides, or rear of a vehicle, except headlamps, may have any unlighted color, provided the emitted light from all lamps or reflected light from all reflectors complies with the required color. Except for backup lamps, the entire effective projected luminous area of lamps visible from the rear or mounted on the sides near the rear of a vehicle shall be covered by an inner lens of the required color when the unlighted color differs from the required emitted light color. Taillamps, stoplamps, and turn signal lamps that are visible to the rear may be white when unlighted on vehicles manufactured before January 1, 1974.
Amended Sec. 38, Ch. 766, Stats. 1995. Effective January 1, 1996.
Amended Sec. 4, Ch. 198, Stats. 2004. Effective January 1, 2005.

CVC regarding Taillamps:

http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc24600.htm

(e) Taillamps shall be red in color and shall be plainly visible from all distances within 500 feet to the rear except that taillamps on vehicles manufactured after January 1, 1969, shall be plainly visible from all distances within 1,000 feet to the rear.

CVC regarding Stoplamps:

http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc24603.htm

(e) Stoplamps on vehicles manufactured on or after January 1, 1979, shall emit a red light. Stoplamps on vehicles manufactured before January 1, 1979, shall emit a red or yellow light. All stoplamps shall be plainly visible and understandable from a distance of 300 feet to the rear both during normal sunlight and at nighttime, except that stoplamps on a vehicle of a size required to be equipped with clearance lamps shall be visible from a distance of 500 feet during such times.

 

Do work, son.

 

most really do deserve tickets, i almost rear ended some stupid ricer integra on 17 because of his stupid tail tinting

 

Yeah, I'm sorry, but tinting any lighting on a vehicle is just plain dangerous. Proceed with caution.

-Brian

 

touche