Choose the country or region where you will use your car. Each guide explains which windows and vehicles it covers, links to the official rules and shows when the sources were checked. Only the places listed below are covered.
Read scoped passenger-car tint guides for Ontario, Québec, Alberta and British Columbia front glazing, with official sources and visible source dates.
Ontario · Québec · Alberta · British Columbia: front glazing only
Side and rear windows only
This guide covers added film on ordinary passenger cars with a gross vehicle mass (GVM) of no more than 4.5 tonnes. GVM is the vehicle’s maximum loaded weight rating. Imported cars, special approvals and heavy vehicles need separate checks; this guide does not approve an individual installation.
Read the Victoria guide →Ordinary light passenger cars
This guide covers ordinary passenger cars with a gross vehicle mass (GVM) of no more than 4.5 tonnes. GVM is the vehicle’s maximum loaded weight rating. Factory-glass approvals, imported cars, special-purpose vehicles and heavy vehicles need separate checks.
Read the Tasmania guide →England, Scotland and Wales; excludes Northern Ireland
This guide covers ordinary private passenger cars in England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland has separate vehicle legislation and its own official tint guidance. Taxi and private-hire licensing conditions are outside this guide.
Read the Great Britain guide →Ordinary private passenger cars; vehicle-date and approval qualifications
Northern Ireland’s front-window tint rules, older-car qualifications and glass-plus-film checks. Read the official sources before deciding what to fit.
Read the Northern Ireland guide →Ordinary class MA passenger cars
For an ordinary passenger car classified as MA under New Zealand’s vehicle rules, NZTA's in-service inspection manual requires transparent film on front side windows to leave at least 35% overall visible light transmittance (VLT). The same minimum applies to transparent rear-window film on class MA vehicles, with specific exceptions for stretch limousines and body-transfer vehicles. Rear overlays also require exterior mirrors on both sides. This guide focuses on ordinary MA cars.
Read the New Zealand guide →Ordinary non-armoured cars; unofficial English summary
For ordinary non-armoured cars, Brazil's CONTRAN Resolution 960/2022, as amended by Resolution 989/2022, requires at least 70% light transmission in the windscreen and other glazing essential for driving. The defined essential areas include front-side glazing within the driver's field of vision. Article 4 contains specific windscreen-area exclusions; they should not be treated as a general aftermarket-strip permission.
Read the Brazil guide →Aftermarket film on ordinary Singapore-registered private cars
Check Singapore’s film requirements and the official route for an installation question.
Read the Singapore guide →Private cars
Understand Ireland’s NCT checks for tinted front windows, the role of finished-window measurements and what a test result does not establish.
Read the Ireland guide →Each guide links to original official sources and records its source-review date and remaining limitations. A source check is not a law’s effective date, continuous monitoring or professional legal clearance.
General education, not legal advice, an inspection certificate or permission for a particular installation. The comparison and tint planner are U.S.-only tools.