Windshield Tint You Can See Through.
Less Glare, Same View.

Windshield tint at Tint Starz comes two ways: a sunstrip along the top of the glass, and full windshield film in S5 or S9 ceramic. On a car registered in Illinois, the law allows only the sunstrip, unless the driver has the medical exemption.

What windshield tint Illinois allows: the top 6 inches

A sunstrip is a band of nonreflective film across the top of the windshield, reaching no more than 6 inches down from the top, which is where the AS-1 line usually falls. It is the windshield film Illinois allows on every Illinois registered car, and it starts at $60. The shop cuts the sunstrip no more than 6 inches from the top, per Illinois law.

It shades the strip of glass where the sun comes in over the visor, across the full width of the windshield. Everything below it stays as it was, so the road ahead looks the same.

The statute measures the 6 inches from the top of the glass, not from the AS-1 mark. It sets no darkness figure for the strip: the film has to be nonreflective and stay within those 6 inches. The guide can you tint your windshield in Illinois has the full rule, with the exemptions.

Full windshield tint, and who it is for

Full windshield film starts at $120 in S5 ceramic and $200 in S9. On a car registered in Illinois, the law allows film on the top 6 inches only. Full windshield film is for cars registered in another state or drivers with the medical exemption.

Subsection (a) of the statute allows nothing else on the windshield, clear film included, and subsection (a-10) bars installing what (a) prohibits.

Two kinds of cars sit outside subsection (a). Subsection (f) exempts a car properly registered in another state, though the state that registers it may set its own windshield rule. Subsection (g) exempts a car with the Illinois medical exemption, and (g-7) requires its distinctive plates or plate sticker to be on the car before any film goes on.

S5 is rated 53 to 72 percent infrared rejection, depending on shade, and S9 is rated 91 to 93 percent across Rayno’s published shades. Both block 99.9 percent of UV. S9 70, the lightest S9 the shop stocks, has no Rayno published figure.

So on an Illinois registered car, the film stays on the top 6 inches. A full windshield is for a car registered in another state or with the medical exemption, so check your registering state’s windshield rule before you book.

Glare and UV through the windshield

The windshield is the biggest piece of glass in front of you, and in winter the low sun sits right in it.

On a car that may carry full windshield film, registered in another state or with the medical exemption, S5 and S9 cut low-sun, snow and wet-road glare without going darker. Both stay optically clear at night, and both block 99.9 percent of UV year round.

On an Illinois registered car without the medical exemption, the sunstrip covers the top band only, and the rest of the windshield stays clear by law. The front side windows can carry ceramic as well. How dark they can go depends on the rear windows, and the Illinois window tint law page has the rule in full. To compare side window shades first, use the tint shades preview.

Tesla windshields

On a Tesla Model 3 or Model Y, the windshield is an add-on to the Tesla package, in S5 or S9, priced on the Tesla window tint page. The rule does not change for a Tesla. On one registered in Illinois, film goes on the top 6 inches only, and full windshield film is for Teslas registered in another state or drivers with the medical exemption.

Call with your year, make and model, and say which state the car is registered in, or send the quote form and the shop calls you back with the exact price within minutes during shop hours.

Every windshield is done at 837 Oakton St Unit C in Elk Grove Village, by appointment Monday to Saturday 9 to 6, and most jobs are done the same day. Film never goes on in a driveway; the shop’s van is for mobile detailing only. The shop is about 6 minutes from Elk Grove Village Hall and about 10 from Wood Dale City Hall outside rush hour. See window tint in Elk Grove Village and window tint in Wood Dale.

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