Police Operations To Stop Modified Vehicles!

[Nefret]

One vehicle believed to be a sponsored show car valued at more than $100,000 that was being driven on a public road was deemed as unsafe after it was found to have a nitrous oxide system fitted to the vehicle and three bottles connected.

^^ That is leet.

[MotoMan]

Yes yes the cops are all out to get us.. *puts on tin foil hat*

Seriously.. dont drive like a knob and youll be fine..

Ive had my skyline for almost a year now.. drive every morning at 2am to work.. and guess what

Not once have i been pulled over.. Not ONCE! nadda zip

P.S. the only "illegal" mod to my car is the Exhaust... but it isnt overly loud so ive never had a cop look twice

There are also smart ways to mod your car that ARE perfectly legal.. They are just generally more expensive

[zaffa]

If the government was truly concerned with lowering the road toll they wouldn't be using the revenue raised to install more cameras they would be targeting the direct issue which is driver education. This is and has been a known fact many years however, instead of footing the bill or at least some of it to educate not just young drivers but all drivers they choose the install more speed cameras to line their pockets.

What the government should be doing is introducing and incentive based driver education program where by young drivers of high performance vehicles go to a driver education course and run through a series of lessons to prove to instructors/assessors they are capable of controlling a high powered vehicle adequately.

I forsee that a driver education would seriously curb the road toll and if the government wasn't so blatantly greedy they could actually do something about it, but until that day dont expect the deaths to stop!

Jordon

[zaffa]

Yes yes the cops are all out to get us.. *puts on tin foil hat*

Seriously.. dont drive like a knob and youll be fine..

Ive had my skyline for almost a year now.. drive every morning at 2am to work.. and guess what

Not once have i been pulled over.. Not ONCE! nadda zip

P.S. the only "illegal" mod to my car is the Exhaust... but it isnt overly loud so ive never had a cop look twice

There are also smart ways to mod your car that ARE perfectly legal.. They are just generally more expensive

Surely you cant be serious...of course you never get pulled over...what cop would pull you over for doing nothing at 2am in the morning. hahah

[MotoMan]

Surely you cant be serious...of course you never get pulled over...what cop would pull you over for doing nothing at 2am in the morning. hahah

Well according to some.. Every cop in Melbourne should be chasing me down to hassle/hand me a defect notice..

Shock horror.. but i do actually drive my car at other times too.. with the same result

Edited June 25, 2007 by MotoMan

[Blitz]

mate i live in alice springs its a shit hole but i own an r34gtt and the cops cant do shit cause there car are to slow to keep up with us

Yeah, what an awesome post, assclown

[GTAAAH]

Yes yes the cops are all out to get us.. *puts on tin foil hat*

Seriously.. dont drive like a knob and youll be fine..

Ive had my skyline for almost a year now.. drive every morning at 2am to work.. and guess what

Not once have i been pulled over.. Not ONCE! nadda zip

P.S. the only "illegal" mod to my car is the Exhaust... but it isnt overly loud so ive never had a cop look twice

There are also smart ways to mod your car that ARE perfectly legal.. They are just generally more expensive

I couldn't disagree more. I used to drive to lots of places on the weekend and getting pulled over/defected was something i expected every night, and usually happened. I got pulled over a total of 12 times on the way to and from work, and quite a few more driving on saturday/sunday nights. I got defected quite a bit, and only once was i defected for something that was illegal.. (was defected for boost controller.. every other time was things like, handbrake clicking 7 times instead of 6, one in-cabin light not working, number plates not clear (?) aftermarket bov (stock) and anything else they could think up)

In my valiant on the other hand (see DP) i get pulled over occasionally but cops are always polite and just want a chat, some ask me to pop the hood, see the 318 and don't even question whether i can drive a 250hp 1350kg car on my P's.. import = rape..

Edited June 25, 2007 by r32 gts-turbo

[MotoMan]

pop the hood, see the 318 and don't even question whether i can drive a 250hp 1350kg car on my P's.. import = rape..

There's your answer... You are a p plater.. im not fussed if the cops hassle P Platers...

[GTAAAH]

brb 3 months then, i'm sure the story will be the same

[scathing]

Not only are they introducing more cameras, but they're going to introduce these no turbo, v8 laws for the P platers. I wonder if these laws are actually gonna lower the number of road fatalities.

Track record for such legislation says no.

[Gazee]

Speaking of revenue raising, i've noticed the police hanging around this area alot on harbour esp. docklands...

reasons being are;

- their cop shop is across the road (easy to go take a piss etc etc.)

- 40k speed limit

- longish and slightly boring road i.e. easy to go over 40k's if you don't pay attention

- they wait at the traffic lights, when they catch someone speeding they press the pedestrian crossing button which straight away changes the light to red so you stop and they telll you to move to the side of the road.

- if anyone decides to run that red light or they can't stop them by foot they have a cop car waiting for a chase.

- i've seen up to 8 police officers there at once. WHAT THE f**k DO THEY NEED 8 COPS THERE FOR??

- in no way is this road a black spot for accidents!!!!!

in a nutshell they are f*king theives!!

my 2c

[scathing]

I've been in Docklands, and the place is empty. Some cars use it to drive from one place to another, but hardly anyone stops there. I didn't see any shops or restaurants that were open after hours. I'm not sure if you need 8 cops there to patrol what amounts to a wasteland, but the flipside means that you've got no real business being there in the first place (aside from the fact that we live in a "free society", unlike oppressive police or theocratic states, so ostensibly we should be allowed to go to any public place we want) so anyone out there is doing something dodgy.

Mind you, being as open and straight and deserted as it is I could see it being quite the "street racer" hangout. While I was there (under the Bolte Bridge) I saw a couple of guys tear past, and there was another group of imports taking photos in that area.

[ricsvtr]

I reckon there is some truth to what Spunky Munky is saying. I definitely get more attention from cops driving my skyline than any of my previous cars. To all those ppl who think nothing of it just wait till you get your first yellow sticker for a LEGAL mod and then having to pay associated costs with getting the yellow sticker removed. Then we will see if you are so righteous. Sure not all cops are wankers but some of them are right c**ts.

[SilverECR33]

2. The Police can not impound your car for it being unroadworthy. Thats an absolute load of crap.

You dont know what your on about. They can do, whatever they want. and some of them do.

Good on ya spunky for pointing this out, Although alot of us who are awake, do know what is going on, its not hard to see. Its a shame that our governments are such crooks.

Go engineers Certificate I think ill go get one. But I reckon when later on we may see the government issue new legislation allowing police officers to over rule these certificates.

[scathing]

Get a engineers report for your mods and enjoy driving your car without fear !

The fear will still be there. If the cop wants to be a tocal tnuc, they can still defect you for the most random shit anyway.

[Snowman]

I actually think if they changed the law from 3km/hr to 10% as was once the case then 99% of people would be happy. But that won't happen either as I believe over 95% of speeding fines from speed cameras fall in that range (so under 10%). I know I have had over the years 4 speed camera fines and they have all been under 10% (so for example 85 in an 80 zone). I remember the last Vic state elections the Liberals stated if they got in they would change this policy back to 10% - but then all you idiots voted Labour so have no one else to blame.

[Beer Baron]

well I can't remember what the tolerance is in nsw but it's thanfully way more than 3km/h. and half our camera boxes don't have camera's in them, and those that do only work half the time, and they are all massive, and signposted so it's pretty rare for anyone to get pinned by one. what we have to watch out for is cops hiding in bushes with hand-held devices, and unmarked cars fitted with them too.

[d00dz]

It's not a free country is it?

Why am I BANNED from doing what I like?

AUSTRALIA =/ Communist Country! or does it?

[Factory 5]

a mate got done 2 weeks ago on Athurs Seat in Frankerston

he was doing 79 in a 60 zone, pulled over by a white un-marked VZ SS v8 commo,

wasnt showing 'P'-plates

he explained to cop that he couldnt see the '60' sign as the sun were in his eyes and he go done for a redlight camera the week before,

cop was very reasonable, very polite and professional

cop gave him fine for $175, plus 1 demerit point (wrote 68 instead of 79, let off for the missing P-plates), leaving 1 point left to last till march next year

that fine plus the $235 redlight camera leaves a f*kin big hole in his pocket, and now eats homebrand beans or vegemite toast fro the next month as he's an apprentice with bugger all pay....

now i see a few things.

some cops are reasonable, and fair some are knuckle heads

red light cameras are a deterrent to run lights BUT massuive f*k off fines

bracks is sometimes a good fella with f*kt up people working for him (as if he could think up even half the hoon laws etc)

AND

if they make all these turbos v8's etc illegal, then all the mods on lil 4 banger cars will be cracked down on in 5 years...

just wait... once we all drive echo's and kia's n shit, it will get even more stupid

BUT if we make them 800mil in revenue, dont you think that number will go down as the number of 'hoon'/modified car drivers go down?

say theres 160,000(or whateva) hoons drivers/speeders/boozers etc makin 800mil, dont they realize they are gonna collapse their own budget etc if the number of cars/boozers/hoons is well, slashed... in the policy makers eyes, they want no hoon drivers (modified cars) no deaths etc.

but if they succeed in doing that, where da f*k will the drain that lost revenue from?

in us keeping our modified cars on the road, we continue to fund their shithouse policys and f*kt projects...

lock your turbo 6's in the garage for a year, buy a $14000 MAZDA NEO and see what they come up with then....

we'll end up with bracksys budget being shot to f*k, a buzzbox car to give the wife to take shopping and visit grandma, and in 1 year we will end up with our cars still in one piece, modified to the hilt ready to bring terror to the streets once more...

that brings me to another thing...

how many impounded cars or ppl with lost licenses just spend the time they're off the road dropping in bigger turbos or RB26's or coilovers etc???? almos all of em eh! as if impounding is a solution. it a discouragement yes, but just a fking annoyance to the public.

Edited June 25, 2007 by MAG86

[scathing]

It's not a free country is it?

Why am I BANNED from doing what I like?

Because that kind of governance is called anarchy. There are plenty of things you can't do, most of them for what most would consider good reason (which is why they get enacted into these things called laws, which tell you what you can and can't do).

AUSTRALIA =/ Communist Country! or does it?

Do you actually know what communism is?