Spare The Arguments: NSW Tint Laws

[OzTzlaBloke]

Any fellow Aussies in NSW who are looking at window tint regulations.

To save you any arguments and unnecessary nonsense from others, the following is the actual state of play.

The NSW VSI 3 was last updated in July 2003 and is now *5 Years Behind* new legislation enacted into law in 2017. This allows for past the B pillar glass to be 20% or higher. The suggestion that NSW requires 35% all round is wrong, has been wrong for 5 years, and will continue to be wrong until service NSW are actually able to keep technical documents in synch with legislative changes. So goto town if you want on 20% behind the B pillar its legal.

Vehicle Standards Information
VSI.03 | Rev. 3 | 1 July 2003

NSW Legislation
Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Regulation 2017
Current version for 24 February 2023 to date (accessed 19 July 2023 at 10:47)

44 Window tinting(cf ALVSR 2015 r 44; 2007 reg Sch 2 cl 45)

(6) Glazing used in a window or interior partition of a motor vehicle, other than rear glazing, may be coated to achieve a luminous transmittance of not less than 35%.
(6A) If a motor vehicle is fitted with at least 1 rear vision mirror to each side of the vehicle, the motor vehicle’s rear glazing may be coated to achieve a luminous transmittance of at least 20%.

 

[paulp]

Note if your car visits another state it needs to comply in that state. Police can defect any car, not just those registered in their state

 

[OzTzlaBloke]

In exclusively the case of window tint regulations by law, the cops have no basis to defect in any state or territory of Australia if a NSW driver is found in those areas with 35/20/20 as per the NSW regulations. None are "more" than 20% - the benchmark is universal. So any state/territory anywhere is ok. Some allow even less than NSW, like In the NT the story is its 15% for rear windows and rear windscreen

Exposure to a yellow canary could happen if a driver fiddled with the front windscreen in some states like a Tasmanian drove to Vic with tinted front windscreen on a theoretical level.

 

[[Zombie]]

goto town if you want on 20% behind the B pillar its legal.

Good news, because the factory tint on Model Y's rear side windows is 21% VLT