# yellow tinted windows on car **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 22, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-tinted-windows-on-car/718319 "2015-04-22T21:49:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MostlyUseless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MostlyUseless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyUseless)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-tinted-windows-on-car/718319/1 "2015-04-22T21:49:39Z")
At my work, there is a car with distinctively yellow window tinting. I can’t see this as being as effective as the darker tinting with regards to blocking the sun. What is the point of the yellow? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-tinted-windows-on-car/718319/2 "2015-04-22T21:55:08Z")
Night driving? Not just mostly useless but [completely useless.](http://www.laramyk.com/resources/education/dispensing/the-dangers-of-night-driving-glasses/) ---
**Author:** ![SpeedwayRyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@SpeedwayRyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpeedwayRyan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-tinted-windows-on-car/718319/3 "2015-04-23T19:04:46Z")
I would bet on it being for appearance and not function. Some old 60s-era hot rods and gassers (and new hot rods built in the “traditional” style sometimes have crazy colored tint, red or green or yellow, just to be different and make a visual statement. Some examples [here](http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachments/56-chevy-gasser-with-red-window-tint-002-jpg.1342692/) and [here](http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e234/1927hotrod/P6110015.jpg). In recent years, some of the import crowd (generally) have latched onto this old trend, I’ve seen a yellow Honda with yellow tint that didn’t really match…it looked hideous. ---
**Author:** ![JerrySTL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@JerrySTL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerrySTL)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-tinted-windows-on-car/718319/4 "2015-04-23T19:35:27Z")
Driving in rain and other low visibility conditions (not night)? I have yellow sunglasses inserts and it makes a big difference in the rain. However unless the windscreen is tinted, I don’t see how that would make much of a difference on a car. ---
**Author:** ![MostlyUseless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MostlyUseless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyUseless)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-tinted-windows-on-car/718319/5 "2015-04-24T17:11:00Z")
The car in question is a newer-ish Nissan Maxima. Very plain Jane and all of the windows have yellow tint. If this was for style, they dramatically missed; it just looks…well, weird. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yellow-tinted-windows-on-car/718319/6 "2015-04-24T18:35:32Z")
Nothing of value to add; just wanted to say I find those yellow-tinted vehicles to be horrendously ugly. I have no clue why someone would do that to their cars.