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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Horney on 05 May 2008, 17:48
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From clubpolo:
"Got pulled at 6am this morning, its a national crackdown apparently, his opening lines were, "I'm giving you a ticket due to the volume of your exhaust" my reply was "you what?". He got a bit arsey at this comment.
My exhaust is a standard mk3 polo exhaust, his complaint was the volume of it at acceleration. Asked my to give it some revs so i could hear as well, nothing above normal...then asked me to floor the throttle...loud noise, "thats what I'm talking about he said". told him it wasnt my exhaust but he wouldnt have it. thing is that the sound he could hear was my induction kit, quiet when applied slowly, loud when floored and i even showed him.
His explantion of my exhaust would make any car with an active exhaust system illegal as well.
Walked into cop shop this morning with crappy wet ticket and an MOT garage letter stating that the exhaust was in A1 condittion and was fitted as standard to this vehicle. Copper behind the counter called down his boss, who said "what a waste of your time", and the holy grail "I'm sorry for this"
So it looks as if there out to get us, but keep your wits about you and be mostly polite and they cant do a thing.
REMEMBER: QUESTION EVERYTHING!!!!"
Full thread: http://www.clubpolo.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=105712&st=0
VZi thread: http://www.volkszone.co.uk/VZi/showthread.php?t=450754&highlight=pulled
Nick
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way of the world - doing the same to bikes. :rolleyes: got to pay for all the ilegal immigrants some how :lipsrsealed:
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To me that sounds like an arsey copper and nothing more.
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my mate had a seriously loud exhaust on his mk2 golf and always revved it up as he drove the cops past to get there reaction but they dont do anything
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My mate gets pulled in his mk1 often (3" jetex from manifold back) with the old exhaust excuse, its just that an excuse to pull you :wink: just entertain the dim-witted tw@ts and you can be on your merry way in no time :laugh:
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The legal maximum noise for an exhaust system is, or was 101 db. It may be down to 99db now, but in any case, that is still loud and you would have to go some to exceed that volume. Even kitcar Cobras have trouble going over that limit, and they have unrestricted side pipes and large V8 tuned engines.
So long as the exhaust is in good nick and not blowing, the un-educated coppers who are out to make a name for themselves do not have a leg to stand on.
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the un-educated coppers who are out to make a name for themselves do not have a leg to stand on.
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new coppers out to get brownie points
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If you feel your car was not illegal then you can plead not guilty to the alledged offence !
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am yet to be pulled for having LED green sidelights. They are extremely noticeable and quite bright but no fuzzers have pulled me yet. Strange.
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just shows how clueless these bobbys really are!
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no way thats well dumb. most cops havnt got a clue.
They do this to reach their daily targets i bet.
Ive always had a good attitude towards the police when pulled but they still went on like cocks.
They should not use their loud sirens at night (empty road)...wakes me up. What about that? Tossers :rolleyes:
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I was sat outside the local yesterday evening as it was a lovely day, the amount of REALLY loud exhausts I heard go past, ranging from a 350Z that made the tables vibrate it was so loud down to some 13 year old in a fiesta. Lots of them about at the moment.
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Mine is actually quieter than standard at below 5.5k revs. A little louder at the top end, but they would probably think mine looks standard anyway :grin:
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my mate had a seriously loud exhaust on his mk2 golf and always revved it up as he drove the cops past to get there reaction
f**king muppet :rolleyes:
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pah, coppers just pull you when they feel like it, i work bang nexst to sheffields main police control center, and i see, without fair, 4-5 traffic cops everyday on my commute to and from work.
im running a fairly loud zorst, german plates that really in no way shape or form look at all legal, often do 50 in the 40 on the europa link which is basically a pedestrain free road so not too bad, and when i was stopped, its cos i over took a police car. no mention of the mods... clueless, or just really slack.
but, im not gonna complain too much about this, they do have more important things to deal with i suspect.
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pah, coppers just pull you when they feel like it, i work bang nexst to sheffields main police control center, and i see, without fair, 4-5 traffic cops everyday on my commute to and from work.
im running a fairly loud zorst, german plates that really in no way shape or form look at all legal, often do 50 in the 40 on the europa link which is basically a pedestrain free road so not too bad, and when i was stopped, its cos i over took a police car. no mention of the mods... clueless, or just really slack.
but, im not gonna complain too much about this, they do have more important things to deal with i suspect.
Exactly, someones got to replace the film in the speed camera.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but why does a couple of people on a couple of forums constitute a crackdown on modified cars ? :huh:
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because.... its just obvious really. their simply cracking down.
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Must stop looking at forum, I need to crack on with me work.
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Maybe I'm missing something, but why does a couple of people on a couple of forums constitute a crackdown on modified cars ? :huh:
Because in one of the posts the chap was told by the copper they were having a national crackdown. I wouldn't have posted it otherwise.
Nick
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Maybe I'm just an old sceptic then, one swallow doesn't make a summer and all that. :afro:
I'm not driving a modified vehicle at the moment anyway so I'm not too fussed about it. It might be funny when I go to Bugjam in my camper and get stopped by the cops though. "Are they the original wheels and are those 355mm disks behind them standard sir?" :grin:
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my mate had a seriously loud exhaust on his mk2 golf and always revved it up as he drove the cops past to get there reaction
f**king muppet :rolleyes:
I wish i was a cool as him
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my mate had a seriously loud exhaust on his mk2 golf and always revved it up as he drove the cops past to get there reaction
f**king muppet :rolleyes:
I wish i was a cool as him
I am :laugh: