wife decorates husbands car

[screenman]

It's bad enough having idiots driving normal cars around but having idiots driving cars around with half the windows obscured is even worse!

Can those cars legally be driven like that? Hmm, maybe not ...

Regulation 30 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 (SI 1986 No. 1078
as amended) requires that:

(1) Every motor vehicle shall be so designed and constructed that the driver thereof while
controlling the vehicle can at all times have a full view of the road and traffic ahead of
the motor vehicle.
(2) Instead of complying with the requirement of paragraph (1) a vehicle may comply with
Community Directive 77/649, 81/643, 88/366, 90/630 or, in the case of an agricultural
motor vehicle, 79/1073.
(3) All glass or other transparent material fitted to a motor vehicle shall be maintained in
such condition that it does not obscure the vision of the driver while the vehicle is being
driven on a road.

As long as there is nothing in front of the B pillar there is no problem, think of vans.

 

[Beebo]

As long as there is nothing in front of the B pillar there is no problem, think of vans.

Yep, lots of family cars have heavily tinted windows in the rear but clear windows in the front.
It is only the wind screen and two front side windows that have to be clear.

 

[screenman]

I wish somebody had told the heavily modded Golf I passed yesterday.

I do think that police officers should be allowed to use ball hammers to solve such infractions.

They certainly have powers against the use of illegal front windows, seldom used though.

 

[Beebo]

They certainly have powers against the use of illegal front windows, seldom used though.

I presume it would be an MOT failure though.

 

[Jody]

I call staged.

Even more so seeing the second one.

 

[screenman]

I presume it would be an MOT failure though.

Grey area that as the testers do not have the light meters required to test the windows, in my opinion they should have.