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Originally Posted by Neil

There is a differance between tinted and blacked out. Most new cars have tinted glass. If people have been attacked in taxi's with blacked out windows, which I think was the reason for the ban, then they should not be allowed. I am sorry if it is a cost to the owner but the Council should not have backed down on that.

A police officer friend of mine (who has now emigrated), once told me that it is illegal for cars to have blacked out windows. They can be slightly tinted but above a certain degree of tint is classed as illegal. The thing that used to bug him was that although it is illegal to have the windows too dark for driving it is not illegal for car sales establishments to sell those cars or the kits to blacken the windows. There was no comeback on the garage... As we have said many times in this country 'the law is an ass.'
Personally I would report any taxi with blacked out windows.