Many drivers, either for security, for convenience, for privacy or fashion glasses decides to polarize their vehicles. However, rather than be an aesthetic issue, is a matter regulated by transit authorities that requires a series of procedures and, most importantly, it is an issue related to road safety as it can affect your visibility when driving .. Meet what you need to know about this topic.

What are they?

A safety film or protective film is a film that sticks to the glass of a car to stop, to break, injury from either the driver or passengers thereof. It also serves to control the flow of sunlight to the interior of the car, making it dark and cool. This tends to be especially useful in areas where high temperatures filtering of sunlight helps to have a nice temperature inside the car.

However, these do not give you extra crystals car resistance, so it will not give you extra protection at the time of a traffic accident. That means that if you want to put these movies in your car, the safety of the crystals is not greater if polarized films are used.

Rules

Keep in mind that putting a protective film on your car is a way of polarizing glasses is regulated in the country by means of resolution 033 777 of the Ministry of Transportation June 17, 2003 and has very specific limitations. Among them are:

“Means glass polarized, inked or darkened as that which through physical or chemical process has lost its colorless state, partially or totally preventing the visibility from the outside to the inside of the vehicle”.

They can drive through the country roads without requiring any authorization for this concept, those vehicles with tinted windows, tinted or obscured that meet the following characteristics, according to the location of the windows in the auto:

  1. Glazing materials required for the direct view of the driver: for laminated glass windshield and front doors whose light transmission is greater than or equal to seventy percent (70%), and
  2. Glazing materials required for indirect vision of the driver equipped with outside rearview mirrors on both sides of the vehicle s. Rear side windows whose light transmission is greater than or equal to fifty-five percent (55%) and glass hindquarters and the fifth gate, whose light transmission is greater than fourteen percent (14%).

To move around the country with vehicles with tinted windows, tinted or darkened, the percentage of light transmission is less than those set out in paragraphs 1 and 2 respectively of the previous article, it must apply for a permit through National Police.

Was fined 8 current legal minimum daily wage drivers of a car with tinted windows that do not comply with these provisions.

However, note that by itself at night you can see a 50% down day, so the less vision within your best vehicle, because although you can improve the temperature during the day in hours nighttime visibility may be dangerously low. Be careful with this issue.

If you are installing on your vehicle polarized films, where required in performing the installation you are given a certificate on the percentage of dimming that made ​​the glasses and the quality of work performed . Always keep it on hand in case of a transit authority requested.

Formalities

To request permission to install tinted windows in a vehicle with a darker film that recorded in the previous section must be submitted to the National Police the following documentation:

Certificate issued by the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, in justifying the need for reasons of health. If the vehicle has armor append resolution of the Superintendence of Private Security and Surveillance, which authorizes the shield and level.

Photocopy of transit license and compulsory car insurance.

Peace and safe from taxes and vehicle taxes.

Photocopy of the identity card of the person or legal entity NIT.

Certificate of the Chamber of Commerce for legal person, registered names appear where the legal representative and who will own permit, issued not more than 30 days.

Certificate of domicile of the person who will use the permit issued by the Chief of Police of the place.

Judicial current Certificate of the person who will use the permit.

Occupation by which registration with the Chamber of Commerce, the object and the business name of the enterprise or goodwill which perform polarized, attunement or dark glasses if the application is approved, which is established must be registered due to the chamber of commerce.

Permission to tinted windows, tinted or obscured is personal and not transferable, will be valid for two (2) years from the grant.

 
 

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