Quote Originally Posted by dr. d View Post
only papers stolen.. good for you! so while your more expensive radio was left intact, the bag was stolen. now, does this not give you an idea of how robbers think?

actually, putting everything (within reason, of course) of potential commercial value in the trunk, away from prying eyes, IS recommended by authorities.

i am only against front windshield tints, and, to a degree, rear windshield tints. to me, you can tint heavily your side glass, so they can't take a peek at your radio. but leave a hole for your side mirror's view.. heh heh.

actually, front windshield tints do limit vision. and that's a fact. and while we can often get away with it in the daytime, it becomes a different ballgame at night. believe it or not, despite what many drivers want to think, front windshield tint at night IS a driving hazard. the human eye is already maximally sensitized to light at night. it can not get any more sensitive to compensate for your front tint.

why are jeepneys always on high beams?
1. they can see potential pasajeros, better;
2. pundido na ang low beam filament nila, at ayaw nilang bumili ng bago;
3. low beams sila, ngunit hindi nila ma-adjust dahil walang adjusting mechanisms ang sealed beams nila; and
4. hindi naman sila hinuhuli, e.

and to those who claim that they've adjusted to the tint, i ask,"how do you know?" "i'm not worried about what you see, it's what you don't see, that i am worried about."
well for me dark tints are also for security purposes. just a sample of those kids in the street that if they see you have an unlock door they will take advatage of it or the kids in banawe that grabs your sidemirror, the usual targets are lady drivers or if they see you're alone in your car because they know they can't do anything. there are lots of other reasons why tints are also for security purposes but i won't list them here since it's too much to list and i'm lazy. to be honest i could careless if i have a tint or not, my cars on the states have no tints at all, i only had my cars in the philippines tinted because of security reasons, not for heat rejection or porma, it was purely for security.

i had all my cars tinted lightest on the front and darkest on the side, i can see just as clear as when i'm driving a car without a tint day or night. in my 11 years of driving daily, never been to an accident or had close calls where it was my fault. that's why i know my tint hasn't affected my vision. i can't say the same for others since we all have different eye sights and different tint set up.

anyway like i said, banning dark tint isn't a solution for those fake HID's that blind others on the road. what we need is to regulate after market HID's, educate people on how and when to use low/high beam, enforce them properly and better lights on our streets since our streets are poorly lit.