Foreign vehicles with dark window tints cannot enter Malaysia

By Fernando Fong

Foreign vehicles with dark window tints will not be allowed to enter the Malaysia.

Malaysia’s Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said the Road Transport Department (RTD) will be instructed to carry out the directive as dark window tints were a clear danger.

This is in response to concerns that the foreign vehicles entering the country might bring in drug traffickers and Islamic State militants.

“RTD will take immediate action in barring foreign vehicles with dark window tints from entering Malaysia.

“Those entering Malaysia will have to remove the dark window tint of their vehicles,” he told the Dewan Negara today in reply to Senator Datuk Abdullah Mat Yassin.

The issue of car-window tinting, mainly to reduce glare and help control the temperature inside the vehicle - has been divisive for many years.