{"id":1485,"date":"2012-05-09T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cars.zimbly.com\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2012-05-09T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T13:00:13","slug":"to-shun-film-or-not-to-shun-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sftwrfctry.com\/sftwrfctry\/cars\/2012\/05\/09\/to-shun-film-or-not-to-shun-film\/","title":{"rendered":"To S(h)un-film or not to S(h)un-Film?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My Sun Filmed Swift<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

The Indian Supreme Court probably wanted to take a break from looking at more weighty matters and chose to focus on a frivolous PIL submitted by someone who claims to represent the “Mango” People (Aam Aadmi). Supposedly sun film is the cause for all the law and order issues in the country and that it should be banned altogether – there is no legal % of visual light transmission that can be used. Only factory fitted tinted and laminated glass that conforms to the CMVR rules can be used.<\/p>\n

Legality apart -the sun film manufacture\/sales industry supposedly provides around 150 crore to the Indian economy. These people will be badly hit if all sun film is made illegal to use. There is a fee for getting the sun film removed – this is not something that is usually done – but now the installers themselves are getting a chance to make money by “assisting” the removal for a fee of anywhere between 300 -500 Rs ! They hope to milk this for at least a month and then raise petitions to remove the ban. The ban will get removed within no time. Then again people will flock to get the film added back.\u00a0With all the FUD going on people will gladly shell out more money to get costlier “clear” film that reduces heat transmission. The sun film companies make money either way.<\/p>\n

Doing a net search shows sun film bans have been talked about since 2007 in parts of India – but this has not been consistently enforced. I remember having a dilemma when buying my Swift(photo in this post) in 2007 about putting sun film but since there was nothing clearly specified or enforced I went in with tints with 50% VLT which were legal at the time. However now 5 years later the same tints are now illegal. Our 7 year old Getz has films with around 70% VLT as well.<\/p>\n

My Next Steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n