Reply With QuoteMy 2000 D2 has darker tinted rear windows and light tinted front windows, I believed this was standard on disco's, in UK they like to have lighter tint on front windows for safety (probably due to the overcast weather)
Cheers Matt
My 2000 D2 ES has all side windows and tail gate with Opticool Dark tinted Glass, The windsrceen also has opticool but is clear. This is Genuine Land Rover factory glass tint and not an aftermarket film that is applied after.
Looking at pics of other D2s including some ES models, the front drivers and passenger glass is clear , and only the rear passenger glass back is darkened.
Is this common?
Master
My 2000 D2 has darker tinted rear windows and light tinted front windows, I believed this was standard on disco's, in UK they like to have lighter tint on front windows for safety (probably due to the overcast weather)
Cheers Matt
Master
Mine's got at least three different tints on it. The original tint, one from replacing a passenger window from a Disco 1, and another I'm assuming from the previous owner replacing one in similar fashion
Don't know about common though.
Master
+1 on the lighter tint on the front compared to the rears.
It actually looks a bit odd I reckon. My wife's Kia has factory tinted windows and they are all quite uniformly dark.
I'll try and get a genuine LR windscreen next time I fork out the cash for a replacement - the non-genuine ones are not Opticool AFAIK. They cost more but are stronger and more resistant to scratching when being de-bugged I have read.
Master
The laws on window standards are different in the UK..... The front windscreen has to allow 100% light through, the front side windows 70% and anything goes after the B pillar.... Thus you have different grades of tint.... Opticool, sundim etcOriginally Posted by imatt
My 2000 D2 has darker tinted rear windows and light tinted front windows, I believed this was standard on disco's, in UK they like to have lighter tint on front windows for safety (probably due to the overcast weather)
Cheers Matt
James
Master
There are laws over here too restricting how dark a tint can be, which I believe can be darker on commercial vehicles. I was listening to a guy from Tint a car telling a mate of mine one day on the different levels allowed, he showed us their company car that had darker rear windows and lighter front, the rear were actually non legal he claimed. Apparently a lot of the second hand imported cars from Japan have window tints that are illegal.
Cheers Matt
If it helps, my 01 ES has 'Opticool' front windows (driver and passenger) which looks nearly clear, and 'Sundim' tint on the rest.
Non original front due to an altercation with a duck!
regards
Darian
Fossicker
My 200 ES D2 has glass as described above, light for front windows, darker for rear.
So what exactly is Opticool, and does it filter out UV light?
YarnMaster
According to the Pilkington website:
Make of that what you will...Absorbing Solar Control
Pilkington has long been a market leader in body-tinted glass compositions. Optikool™ and EZ-KOOL® are green, optimised solar absorbing glasses, providing significant improvement to occupant comfort. The products reduce the heat entering through a vehicle's glazed area by around 20 per cent when compared to a car equipped with standard tinted glass.
Pilkington Sundym™ is a neutralised green suite of glasses that blend with the green front door glass to allow both a design choice and an improvement to solar loading. In a vehicle equipped with Pilkington Sundym™, the heat entering the rear of the vehicle is reduced by 45 per cent when compared to that at the front of the car.
Not quite correct James
Linked from here: www.dtei.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/.../Window_tinting.pdf
The official DTEI document is located here: http://www.transport.sa.gov.au/pdfs/...or_Vehicle.pdfNews Release
Mike Rann - Premier of South Australia
Hon Michael O'Brien
Minister for Employment, Training & Further Education
Minister for Road Safety
Minister for Science and Information Economy
Monday, 21 December 2009
NEW WINDOW TINTING LAWS FOR SA MOTORISTS
New laws regarding car window tinting will come into effect in South Australia on January 1 next year.
Road Safety Minister, Michael O’Brien says the changes will bring South Australia into line with window tinting laws in the other states.
“The lack of window tinting uniformity has caused a lot of confusion, both in the industry and with car owners who’ve moved here from interstate,” Mr O’Brien said.
“South Australia will be reducing the minimum visible light transmittance (VLT) from 70 per cent to 35 per cent for the driver and front passenger windows to allow for a consistent national approach from January 1 next year.
“Other states already allow a minimum of 35 per cent for these two windows and this change will mean we’ll have the same window tinting laws that apply everywhere else in Australia,” Mr O’Brien said.
“Window tinting is measured by the percentage of visible light which can be transmitted through the window - the lower the percentage, the darker the tint that can be applied to the window.
“The VLT requirements in South Australia for rear passenger windows and the front and rear windscreen is already in line with other jurisdictions and will not change.
“All states require a minimum VLT of 75 per cent for the front windscreen. This is the minimum requirement set in the Australian Design Rules.
“Other new amendments also include minor changes to the vehicle standards rules to clarify the test for parking brakes; recognise the Australian Standard for natural gas fuel systems and adopt a revised motor vehicle stationary exhaust noise test procedure,” Mr O’Brien said.
Key Points:-
Front windows - Light transmittance now reduced from 70% to 35%
Windows behind drivers seat - Must be 35% transmittance of higher
So in SA we can now go darker up front legally.
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