Just wondering what the tint laws are in Manitoba?



I don't think I will go this dark on the truck like I did with my car

also anyone know of a good tint shop in Winnipeg?

I think the limit is 35% in the front windows, whatever you want in the back. They won't hesitate to give you a ticket for it from what I hear, my friend bought a car with dark tint and 2 days later got a $140 or so ticket. For tint, try AutoTrim of Winnipeg on Dugald Road, at the bottom of the bridge coming from Lagimodiere, north side.

Cops don't like dark tint.....Officer Safety issue. Can't see who is in the vehicle or what they are doing.

my 96 jimmy has very dark tinted windows, never had a problem, with the law, on a sunny day, ive pulled up beside people i know,
and they couldnt tell who it was

i will say at night, driving is a issue {side windows],there that dark, percentage wise ??? bought it like that

50% fronts, 35 the rest, unless a truck then you can paint the rear black as long as you have 2 mirrors!

Windows beside driver
4 No motor vehicle shall be equipped with
window tinting on a window to the immediate right
or left of the driver's seat that

(a) reduces light transmission to less than 50%;
or

(b) increases light reflection to more than 35%.






H60 -- R.M. 99/93


Windows behind driver of passenger car
5(1) No passenger car shall be equipped with
window tinting on a window behind the driver's seat
that

(a) reduces light transmission to less than 35%;

(b) increases light reflection to more than 35%; or

© reduces light transmission through the area of
a rear window immediately in front of a centre
high-mounted stop lamp to less than 70%.

Go see Wes at Future Tint & Stripe. Nicest guy in the world, and FTS has been a sponsor to local snomobile race teams for many years. Support the guys that support us...

yeah 50 front and 35 rear. I have 20 all around just gotta be quick with the power windows (that I dont have lol).

This is correct.

I put 35% all around on my truck. Figure I'll take a chance. You have to find a tinter who will do it under the table though.

I had 20% all around once before and did get hassled by the cops.

Since 2003 I've had 35% all around on my car and have never had a problem. I lived in Alberta for a year with the same car and didn't have any issues. Alberta law is that the front windows cannot have tint. As with any vehicle, you have to be aware of rules in places where you drive, not only where it is registered. If you drive out of province (Sask, Ont, states) that you'll need to follow their rules.

Go see Willy at Auto Stripe on Dugald Road just over the bridge. He's done my decaling and tinting for the past 10 years.

the law must be far more strict in sask,

i know of a case where a young guy driving through sask to alberta got stopped by the rcmp, the cop actually took a key and ripped through all the tinting on the windows because it was illegall,,, and got a fine on top of it

myself, sounded a little overboard to me, could have just made him roll the windows down,
Yes i know,
i m sure he would have just rolled them up a few miles down the road

So if an Alberta Vehicle drives through Manitoba he can get a ticket for no front plate? I think it's wrong that they can tear the tint off the windows if you are just passing through the province. The provinces should get together to have regulations that are comparable from prov. to prov. When I was in Alberta I only needed a class 5 licence to pull my 5th wheel camper...come to Manitoba and I needed a class three??? I pulled it through BC , Alberta , Sask and Manitoba with the Alberta licence...Then I come to the flat lands and need the class 3?? Didn't make sense.

Whats this I hear it has to be factory tint and not some store bought tint?

btw I am getting a shop to do it, it is just I heard from some it has to be factory or shop done?

So the back window can be as dark as can be if I wish?

thanx for the replies so far

im thinking of getting tint also. ive heard the same thing as you about the shop or factory but i find it weird that you can buy tint at hardware stores for cars and trucks.

i had some trouble in Saskatchewan with tint on my car, mind you the speeding ticket for 135, plus the smoke from the tires when i locked up the brakes to drop down from 150, and ya she also got my radar detector which apparently never picked up laser at the time!. never helped but the cop wanted it ripped off on the spot, till i showed her the safety papers and the Manitoba laws on tint, i had a copy in the glove box at the time, she let me go but i was held up for 45 minutes!!

thought you could use detectors in sk?

So if my bros inlaw(from Ont) comes to visit here he is gonna need a class 3 license for a F250 and 30 foot 5thwheel?

What does that have to do with tint?

Call the DMV and ask them. Why get it from the horses ass (here) when you can get it from the horses mouth (DMV)?

Look it up on the net... I had posted the requirements on this forum. There should be NO tint allowed unless it is factory...IMO.

Laws can be as trivial as lawmakers want them to be. Yamadoo, did you know that it is against the law in Winnipeg to walk three abreast on the sidewalks?

The front plate thing is the law in each province, relating to the identification of a vehicle.

In terms of tint, that is a provincial law and the police at their discretion can enforce it. Same with studded tires, and any other vehicle modifications. Before I bought my winter studded tires, I checked with CAA for information and found out (don't quote me on this because it was a long time ago) that they can only be in the winter months in Manitoba. BC and Alta, anytime in Sask, and no studs are allowed on Ontario Highways. Different places are allowed to make certain laws and enforce them.

I am not a cop or pretend to be one. I do know of Alberta residents getting tint removed on the roadside in Alberta, people from Manitoba having it cut up on the roadside in Manitoba, and tickets to Manitoba residents in Sask for tint. You can get a note from a doctor that will also let you have as dark as tint as you want if you can get them to write a note for it (and have a copy of the law and note in the glove box with you).

Tint is like speeding, or not using your blinkers, or rolling through a stop sign... it's only illegal when you get caught.

WHAT!!!!....It's aginst the law to have 3 breasts???? What is this world coming to!!!! STOP THE INSANITY!!!!!

My cousin just brought his car down to winnipeg to get his tint done. 50% for the front driver/passenger side windows and 35% for everything behind the doors is as dark as they would go. I always thought it was 15% for the driver/passenger and as dark as you want for the back but I guess not.

don't need front plate in Quebec

also you can have studded tires in Northern Ontario as of 2 yrs ago

Thanks for the info on the studded tires. Now I can legally drive to Kenora in the winter.

dmv would know nothing of tint you qould need to go to V.I.(vehicle inspection)

but commercial trucks or cars or any business vehicle cannot have any tint what so ever.
passrnger cars and passenger vans are are 50 and 35
trucks suvs and cargovans are 50 and as dark as u want.
and the tint can be as dark as u want behind the drivers shoulders.
most cops wont hassell u if u roll down both windows on the drivers side if there are 2 they just dont want to get stabbed or shot
p.s. im only rocking the 20% all around cuz its still dark at nite.

50% left and right of the driver
and 35% behind the driver provided that you have two outside mirrors that each have an area more than 19 square inches.If you do not have two outside mirrors or they are smaller than 19 square inches then you must have 50% all around on a passenger vehicle. SUV's must have 50% on the front two.
Illegal tint carries two demerits and a fine just like a seatbelt ticket no matter which province or state you are from.
Been tinting windows way before FTS and Auto Trim boys. In fact was at the meeting when they where proposing this stupid law.Waste of my time!
In the begining they would hold the person who tinted the windows responsible for any legal issues but after two years in court now hold the driver responsible.
Side note
If you can prove that the windows where tinted before June 1995 you are grandfathered any do not need to adhere to the tint laws in MB.
Just like speeding it only sucks when you get pulled over.

Do any of the installers in Winnipeg have a meter with which they can test the strength of the tint? I have tint on the venhicle I bought and I don't have a clue as to the strength of the tint or if it over exceeds the requirements.

If I'm okay, then I could have something to show the law if I'm stopped.

Try Future Tint and Stripe, Auto Trim Design and there is another one in Transcona area that is a spin of from Future Tint but I can't remember the name
Make a few phone calls and you will find one that has a meter

well those mother f*****s of useless cops had nothing better to do yesterday, minding my own business, nice clean truck, far away from any crusing areas in the peg and they pull me over. cop comes running out and said sir roll up your window i am testing the tint, he put the meter on it and it failed, his meter said 19% and he wrote 12% on the ticket, $144 bucks and get this, 2 demerits!!!! like wtf? plus i now have a court date so the judge can decide the fine on something else?? like what the hell do i miss a day of work and lose 400 bucks or just grin and bear it and pay the fine, seems cheaper in the long run, oh well i am going to try and fight it, rip off the tint, take pictures to court and say i never knew better and hope for the best.

the thing is the tint is not that dark, you can see through it easily so i wonder how his machine was calabrated, it was 35% on the box when i installed it and i can not see the factory tinted door glass being so dark? the rear ones are factory with no tint and darker then the 2 sides with the tint? its on a s10 zr2!!!

LOL...They R just doing their job. 400.00 a day??!?!?! RU the premier of Manitoba???

say the cop didnt write the right number down. case closed.

Before you head into court and rely on the mercy of the court system, why don't you give those retired cops who help drivers with their speeding tickets. I think they have expanded their "menu" and process more than just speeding tickets. It's worth a try and although it might cost you some money, perhaps you could avoid the demerit points. Those are the real expensive penalties that "keep on giving".
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ok, sorry about 370 a day! where i work its 8-10 hour days, piece work, which works out to be about 37 bucks an hour, if the buggers were doing their job they would have got the truck who blew through 3 red lights and was cutting everyone off, plus had 3 people in the box, they saw them but they never bothered him, just came after me with the tint on my windows, here is the kicker, they were down the whole time i was driving, he made me roll them up for the test, the rears are factory tinted, so in my opinion he was just being a dick looking for an easy ticket and to piss someone off! they were 8-10 cars behind me for around 5 blocks.

i checked them out, around 250 is what they want, i talked to my friend thats the sargent in the peg and she said just rip off the tint, say i never knew the law and take some pictures of the tint free windows into court and i should get away with it.

I called "Tint King" today (located on the corner of McPhillips & Notre Dame) and spoke to them about tint laws, etc.. 50 percent on the driver and passenger side windows and the rear windows from the driver back can be as black as you want them to be - on my truck (SuperCrew). The fellow said that he could look at them and tell right off if they were in compliance or not - no charge. If they weren't within the law, then they could remove the old film from both the driver and passenger doors and re-tint the doors with the proper film for about $100.00 for both doors plus taxes.

I then called the City of Winnipeg Police (Traffic Division) who gave me a number to call their Inspection Division. I did, and spoke to a constable who advised that if I came down, they would test/check my windows for me free of charge. I would have to make an appointment as they are busy. I asked him if I was "putting my head in the lion's mouth" if my windows did not comply with the rule, and he told me "No", but I would have to have them done to spec or take my chances with getting a ticket. He also told me a better idea would be to go down to MPIC at 1075 Portage Avenue and they would do the exact same thing - free of charge and no appointment necessary. They would test it with a meter of some kind.

Hope this information helps.

SNOWFOXSX - If I were you I would call the Police Traffic Division, tell them of your situation and why you were not aware that you weren't in compliance. Apparently they give you something like three days grace to have it corrected BEFORE they hit you with the fine and demerits.