Does £500 and 3 points the normal for getting pulled with tints or have i been shaffted?

 

wekk tbh everyone knows the law with regard to tints on front side windows incl the person who tinted them so if you ignore it and get caught you cant really complain

 

Is this the first time you have been stopped? If so it does seem to be a bit harsh.

 

For a first pull that's definitely out of order, so I guess it's not your first warning?

 

seems a bit harsh to me, I just got ordered to remove and then take the car to the police station and have the bobby retest the widows

 

Its my first time yeah. I know i did wrong but that doesnt seem right to me. Seems abit harsh.

 

Did it go to court?

Don't think the police can issue more than £90 fines.

If you let it go to court, more fool you.
Courts + police = money making scam.

 

Sounds harsh. Plead ignorance & consult a solicitor. I'd just pay the fine & try to get away with the points. Everyone I know who has been court has just been made to remove the tints on the spot so it sounds like plod has shafted you.

 

I just got a sp30 ...the fine has jumped from £60 to £100 as I thougth I had been shafted !.........but yours is taken the **** !!

 

Thanks guys i thought that was the case. Im going to see what i can do i really dont want those points . I can deal with the fine.

 

£500+3 points, wow. That seems extreme

 

There just trying to get you to pay for there new ariel atom or whatever gokart they have just bought lol.

 

How on earth did you end up with that much of a high fine? Did you go to court???

As for the fancy Police car thing.... They are demonstrators that are leant to the Police by the manufacturers. They are not approved Police cars and do not belong to the forces. Most would be useless Police vehicles and would require specialist training to use them as such. Complete publicity stunts to promote cars.

And as I always remind people..... The Police do not receive the money from tickets on the road side or fines at court. It goes to the local government.

If people who are guilty think they should go to court they are stupid. You will just end up with a harsher penalty and court costs too! I saw a guy go to court for a £60 speeding ticket and come out with over £700 to pay... He was banged to rights but thought he would try to be clever.

 

Yep...the courts and the police are part of the same "Safety Camera Partnership", in it to make money.

 

If you have some inside information that I don't know about then please share.

But one fact I can share is that Wiltshire's safety camera partnership was racking in so much money from harassing innocent (by innocent I mean guilty) members of the public that it was closed down due to the people involved not being able to afford to run it.... The people working within in made redundant.

So not the best way of making money it seems.... Been closed down for years now and enforcement is left to roads policing officers which are almost non existent thanks to the current government.

I like Top gear as much as the next person but their facts on speed cameras are probably best enjoyed as entertainment only.

I know this has nothing to do with tints... which we all know are illegal anyway.

To the OP if you believe you have been dealt with outside of the law then you should complain... but I doubt you have been. A fine like that must have come from court?

 

Not as good as this one

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...2013-191-0-0-0

 

Lol. That will teach him.

Now i'm not going to sign up to read the whole story but who exactly fined him?

It obviously wasn't the officers who passed by? Then is mentions clamped? The Police don't tend to clamp and surely he was moving? Doesn't add up like all these sensationalist stories. I am sure its another case of "oh god look what happened what a great headline" then in the background it's all explained and sorted out but the headline still stands because nobody wants to hear that everything was alright in the end. They want to hear that the world has gone mad and we are all doomed. These things happen all the time and make great reading but if a person has a justifiable defense they will not be fined. There is also the other issue of people not being able to explain themselves properly of not bothering to explain.

After his refund "Courteous Dan" the white van man probably made another £500 out of the story.

 

We still need to the bottom of this with the op
I have never heard of more then a standard £60 fixed penalty fine for tints
£500
3 points

Did it go to court
Why did you let it go to court
What grading of tints were they ?
Was the £500 combined with any other offence ?

 

Agreed - first offence with a clean history this doesn't make sense. Be good to know which force this was too.

 

Perhaps YOU need to do some research.

1. So called "safety camera partnerships" are made up of the council, the police and the local magistrates. Fact.

2. Wiltshire...ah yes, had hundreds of cameras. They were an invaluable tool against the awful crime of speeding since "Speed kills" don't y'know? Then HMG announced that THEY were keeping all the fines. And overnight, the cameras were suddenly deemed not a good way to police, and switched off. Fact.

Anything else you need enlightenment on?

 

Did I not mention that something like this might happen to you with your choice of modifications in another thread you posted about you wanting a super-duper loud exhaust?

Fight it if you think it is unfair, but they will make your life a misery in future if you do. And the chances of winning are slim to none. It will cost you more than 500 in solicitor fees to fight it anyway

 

Why do people whinge when they get caught breaking a law that they knew they were breaking?

 

laughable really, some ****** with no insurance would get fined half that amount

whats the more serious offence???

 

They are both equal, illegal is illegal....

 

Pay up and shut up. You know they are illegal if they are tinted too much, so why do you think you can complain after you are caught. They look shat anyway front tints, only hide ugly people who think they look like baddasses.. you get me!

 

Having tints isnt illegal,
Having them too dark on the front windows is, there is a difference.

 

Not true.
All offences are dealt with on a scale of severity. For example a minor infringement such as dodgy number plates will not carry the same penalty as driving without insurance, driving without due care will not carry the same penalty as drink driving.

If the facts here are as presented by the OP, then he has been dealt with unnecessarily harshly in my view. However there may be circumstances we haven't been made aware of which might shed a light on the reason why such a harsh penalty has been applied.

 

If you have font tints and are involved in an accident would you actually be insured, especially if, for instance, you wipe out someone whilst turning out of a junction? Really dark front tints are a menace and dangerous.

 

Thanks Dad

 

Calm down

1. I know I never said otherwise.

2. Actually it was 19 cameras.... not hundreds.

As for the reason for removal. That depends which slanted reporter you believe. As I understand it the real reason was the funding for it being dropped by about a quarter and then it was going to be dropped further, maybe completely leaving the Police and local government to fund it.

If they made as much money as people think it would be easy to fund them by just putting more cameras up. Again if they made loads of money then the Police would just employ civilians to operate the vans that they already have sat gathering dust to recoup money. The local government would receive the funds but they are all in one big money making scam right? And now with PCC's deciding what the Police do it would make even more sense. But they don't. Fairly certain it costs the state more then £100 to catch and process a traffic offence.