The Road Transport Department Malaysia (JPJ) has issued 64 summonses during a special operation in Pahang on May 15 for offences relating to illegal car tinting and fancy number plate designs. According to JPJ Pahang director, Kamarul Iskandar Nordin, approximately 73 vehicles were inspected, and 64 were found to have breached regulations.
“Out of the 64 summonses, 28 of them were for overly dark window tinting,” he said. Kamarul explained that the installation of dark tinting without approval is a serious offence because it poses a danger to other road users. Motorists must adhere to the stipulated VLT (visible light transmission) specifications, especially for the front windscreen.
The remaining 36 compound notices issued were for fancy number plates, which again, is obviously against the law. If found guilty, this offence can come with a fine of between RM5,000 to RM20,000, or a jail sentence between one to five years.
Vehicle owners are urged to comply with rules outlined in specifications set under the Road Transport Act (APJ) 1987 when installing vehicle registration numbers on their vehicles. It is an offence to put number plates that do not conform to specifications on vehicles – these include illegal stylised fonts and surfaces (such as carbon print) and fancy plates, with merged or modified letters/numbers to read a phrase, name or other meaning.
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i took my car to puspakom for title transfer check. even without tint, the windscreen reads 73% VLT. and the law says min is 75%. But it’s passed (as there is no reason to fail it without any tint). so the question is at 75% limit for the windscreen, it’s as good as saying u can’t tint anything there. so why set something that is impossible to meet for tint? please also check the windscreen of the transport ministers’ if they pass the 75% mark before issue summon to us!!!
It shows how shallow you know our tinting rules.
If your car is already at the minimum level from the manufacturer and JPJ do not detect any tint, then of course they have no reasons to fail your car. But if your car is is tinted in any way below 75% then it will fail. Mind you not all car manufacturers will tint so dark like yours so for the regular cars ie Proton & Perodua, tinting is still a viable option provided the front does not go below 75%. It is that simple to understand but you seem to like confusing yourself here by conflating with irrelevant issues.
And btw, dark tints are not absolutely banned as certain functionaries ie ministers, royalties, those with medical issues can apply exemption to install dark tints. Transport Minister’s car are part of the ministerial fleet, likely those Alphards approved during PH era where Dr Wee has no say so he is just using the car ordered by someone else unaffiliated with his party. AFAIK Alphards comes from factory with darker windows so do ask PH why they added on dark tints to the fleet of cars they ordered ya.
They should prioritised noisy car & bikes first. Also those with stupid bright lights. Tint & plates won’t hurt or annoy people.
If it’s against the law, why allow the shops to sell them?