Your license is restored for the first time after a DWI suspension. The DWI was not in a commercial motor vehicle, you were 21 or older when the offense occurred, the conviction was not for driving after consuming alcohol or drugs while under 21, and it was not felony death by vehicle. What blood alcohol concentration restriction applies to your driving?

0.00 is the restriction on a second or subsequent restoration, and on a first restoration only when the DWI was in a commercial motor vehicle, the driver was under 21 driving after consuming alcohol or drugs, or the conviction was felony death by vehicle. The scenario excludes each of those, so the first-restoration default of 0.04 applies. This answer treats the 0.00 exception list as the rule the scenario falls under, when the scenario has ruled every exception out.

The manual sets the first-restoration limit at 0.04, not 0.02. North Carolina never prints a 0.02 figure for restored licenses. This answer carries a 0.02 number over from another state's zero-tolerance youth rule, which North Carolina writes as 0.00 instead.

0.08 is the BAC threshold for proving DWI based on alcohol concentration alone in a noncommercial vehicle, and DWI can also be proven by appreciable impairment below that level. The manual sets the first-restoration restriction tighter, at 0.04. This answer grabs the familiar 0.08 DWI threshold, the one BAC figure most drivers can name, and applies it to a restored license where the manual deliberately sets a lower ceiling.