I knew people in Missouri who got ticketed for dark tint. Those Germans in St. Louis don’t mess around, the cops run a tight ship. Orderly and clean.

I believe in CA, technically as long as the DRIVER window is not tinted past X, the rest can be blacked tfo. But try explaining that before you go to court.

To the citing witness

Lol

Reason being, if a cop doesn't see a threat before you roll down the window, they say they are at risk...but that's the legend.

I KNOW MY RIGHTS

Am I being detained?

@Freiheit - CA that's how it is here, on my car the back 5 pieces of glass are damn near blacked out, my front 2 are 5%, legal limit on the front 2 is 35%. Never had any problems for 12 years. The actual front windshield is 35% all the way down. It gets a little sketchy when it's raining at night.
But both times I've ever been pulled over I roll down both driver side windows so they can me while walking up to the car.

@TV yes

@RevStench Yeah, hey have to measure it...but they aren't trained how...so they botch the test if they even bother. Same goes for noise violations. They never use a properly calibrated SPL meter.

When I got my truck, it was an out of state buy so they do a quick inspection, the cop put the reader on my windows because they were after market tinted, it read 32 and he said, "hmmm close enough". Haha they don't care here.

@Tanner - SC well I do live in the hood now haha. But I traveled a lot and slept in my car a lot while traveling from auto plant to auto plant.

@Tanner - SC OMG

Privacy is an American tradition

Inspections are gay. If your state does inspections then you live in a commie state. Also I tint all of my vehicles also.

@here My car normally idles at <1000 but today on the way home from work it started idling at like 2000. I figure it's gotta be some kind of vacuum leak but I'm not sure how to find that, other than spraying flammable substances all over the engine which I'm not too sure about. Anyone have an opinion on whether this is safe to drive like this?

@sigruna14 have you tried turning it off and back on again?

@Mark Vandal Have you tried shaving with a propane torch?

@sigruna14 no but I think you may be onto something

^^^^@Pinochetball @JesseJames

Maybe you fellas can help a brother out

Propane is the safest way to go, or a static smoke test

@sigruna14 DM me

@sigruna14 IS it carbureted? Possible just a stuck throttle?

@Deleted User It's not carbureted.

@sigruna14 Bad throttle body on your injectors?

https://www.yourmechanic.com/article/symptoms-of-a-bad-or-failing-throttle-body

I mean, it could be a lot of things. Hard to know where to begin our if I should just let the shop deal with it.

well if its just a stuck throttle that's a pretty easy fix

What year make and model?

@JesseJames 1995 Mustang 3.8L.

If it means anything, first I noticed it was rolling down the other side of a bridge in 3rd at 35, so revs were a little high, I was using the higher revs to help keep my speed down.

When I put it in neutral at the traffic light I noticed the revs were still up and I was like... Uuhhh... Wtf?

@Pinochetball Maybe that means something to you.

I would remove the throttle body and clean it with throttle body cleaner. And remove the mass air flow meter and clean it with MAF cleaner.

Yeah like a i said last night youll wanna remove that plenum and visually inspect the tb to make sure its not sticking open, and remove the iac to make sure the pintle isnt sticking open

Btw is the MIL on?

@Pinochetball No MIL

Btw, since the IAC is what the computer uses to adjust the TB, shouldn't the problem have gone away when I unplugged it?

No lol the computer adjusts the pintle in the IAC on idle to keep it smooth so it doesnt surge. If its sticking open, like mechanically stuck the ecm wont be able to adjust it and the idle will be high

Most the time when they stick they stick just a little open and the car surges or it sticks shut and it wont idle at all or it will but super low