How To Change Adelaide's Ways In Modified Cars

[RubyRS4]

my 34's gonna be a massive sleeper

I'm getting the Stagea to that standard. Unlike Grim's "in ya ear" 260

[nisskid]

True. No one to blame but yourself ... but we're still gunna hear about it time and time again from some import owners/members who'd rather sook than make themselves discrete.

not completely true, i spent a lot of time researching and a lot of money on the right parts to keep my car legal, only to turn around and be slapped in the face by SAPOL's finest. my latest trip to regency was over "suspension too hard" (roughly 3.5kg/mm all round), having intercooler piping, tyres too wide (225's) and exhaust too low (cat was visible below the level of the chassis rails lol, the cat which is sitting in the stock position)

[typevu]

lol wth bullshit defects are those!

[lunacys13]

Lil Th bullshit defects are those!

Exactly this is what I'm talking about and it has to stop. if a business took advantage of there customers like this, they would be in big trouble.

and the quota the cops need to do, needs to change thats bullshit.

because all thats going to do is make them leave it to the last week its due and they will just go defecting imports. because they are an easy target (and will not be bothered to sue or cant sue them back). Instead of defecting the old bombs etc etc when they see it.

(( passenger cop) " theres a old bomb etc etc " ( driver cop) " Na stuff it, I'm sure ill see plenty of import i can defect before my quota is due")....... but i guess if my ideas are working then this will stop.

Anyone here got anymore ideas to add to the list?

cheers

[nisskid]

lol wth bullshit defects are those!

legal ones lol

i ended up going through with all those defects through regency, tyres werent the same as i sold them with the wheels, but the tyres i ended up going through were 225 width as well, so effectively the same.

regency denied me for chassis rails being out of spec, went back to my crashie and they said they were within industry standard and perfectly legal. unfortunately i needed to show proof of work, so even if i just went back through regency, had a different inspector who said yeh they are fine, without proof of work i couldnt pass. so i had to get the crashies to go back over the rails and clean everything up further, and as my car was my job (delivery driver) i couldnt get an income until i could drive my car on the road, since i didnt have much $$ the shop made the work low priority to save some $$ which meant the work took ages (over a month even tho it was like a few days work at most). so a few months down the track, no income, no car, broke as f**k. i finally scrape together enough $$ to go through regency, passes with flying colours, unfortunately im now out of a job so even with the car i had no way of income.

owell, that's my story of being communally f**ked by both SAPOL and regency. quite a few hundred $$ down, no income for 2 or more months and no job to come back to all because a few uneducated cops thought they knew whats best.

this is a f**ked system, i dont care what anyone says.

[Inline 6]

i got through regency with 275's had a good look at if they were hanging out the guards or not but didnt complain about em either time i was there.

its all about consistency with the sapol

wether somethings legal depends on the weather n if the person is pms ing that day

Edited September 26, 2008 by Inline 6

[Carbon 34]

My whinge ...lol

Coming from USA where there is very few rules being enforced on hot cars running the streets, mainly due to the fact most are built with care and with proper parts for the car. and cops dont have time to hassle you unless your doing something really wrong, speeding ,reckless driving,drink driving, etc.

the only thing they really hassle you for is cars with broken windscreens,bald tires,no lights, window tint thats too dark(for the cops own safety of being shot in the face on stopping you) so coming to SA and its backwards thinking ,cops with too much time on there hands , really since when did cops become automotive engineers ? while there busy screwing with you, the bottleshop is getting held up by a gun man? (and aren't guns banned too?)guns dont kill people ,people do!!!, same as cars. a piece if shit kills just as easy as a racey street car ? and which person do you think has more skills driving, a shit box driver or a race car driver? shit me off to see the guy die in seaford and the news said it was a nissan skyline he was driving,,,not,, it was a nissan (180 or silvia )but not a skyline, get it right or dont report it ? and it was obvious from the burn out marks he was being stupid on a busy street after rain.in a car he didnt know how to drive,,look at the skid marks, no control at all.!!!its a shame to loose life , but a car is a weapon when it moves ,make defensive driving school manditory, teach people how to skid and slide control, emergency braking , not the stupid log book driver , a scared shitless L plater or P plater in a 400hp car with 5 people in it, showing off cause its cool? i went thru car driving school and race schools to lern how to drive in control as well as growing up in a icy area , so you learn car control or go in the ditch on the first corner or stop. teacg kids car control and what happens when you loose it ?

part 2

but in defence of cops, if you drive like an ass on a public roads, endagering others, they have ever right and my blessing too to arrest you and yank you wheels for a day or two to scare you straight, there are far to many dickhead flogging cars thru my street all night long who cant drive for shit, dont get me wrong i love to flog my car and blast tunes too. but do it away from others or on a track, show some respect for others , dont do it at 4am at 150k's in a 50 zone with tunes blasting at 150db in a silent area with working people sleeping.its called respect for others. cops should show us some, so show them some as well. the other day i was passed on a two lane hilly/bumpy road by a car load of kids(5) in a old corrola at 5pm traffic at more then 140k so how can that be safe ? they tried to get me to race them? like racing a death trap on wheels. not smart at all.

and another thing, burn outs are lame, save it for the track, another burn out on UTUBE isnt needed

i dont know how many shitbox fords,commys or magnas or overloaed trailers and semi's that cant stop from too much weight, i see in this town, smoking, bald tires,rust buckets without getting a second look from cops but me, im driving normal and i can see them run my plates in seconds ? shits me off to no end.i could retire on the amount of people using phones while driving, big rigs too. very dangerous indeed. im trying to buy a supra from qld but i have to go thru so many steps to get it thru regency its crazy, its been here for years but they want to inspect it (and comply it again $$$$$ ?) let me tell you my story about my skyline, i had it purchased thru a well know dealer in town it was new import from japan this year, the car got here and went thru regency for compliance... they passed it no worrys. pretty stock R34, i get it, they passed a car without a passenger seat belt even installed , and all the taillights but 1 were burned out,no side marker light working, burned out. and the front tires hit the guards bad, coilovers on it set too low.... so how well do they really look ? it a money maker for the state..thats all.....

most cars defected are shit boxes that nobody will ever claim again and end up at u pull it..lol except the ones who get picked on for some little gauge on the pillar, dont mind the chicks driving with 40 plush toys on the dash and rear deck...

life isnt fair and neither are the cops/regency idiots, deal with it, and get sneakier then they are and beat them at the game..

or consider moving ..lol i am

enough of my whinge sorry

[scandyflick]

i really cant be bothered reading all that...

[gtrkiet]

LMAO yeah same i read like the first and last sentence lol

[typevu]

I read the first chunk and the last chunk.... the middle sounded boring.

[bezender]

i gave it a go... it was a good read

five stars.

[Dohmar]

i gave it a go... it was a good read

five stars.

+1 was a good read

Yeah we've all been frustrated with the Australian beaurocracy at some stage or another... we all know its for revenue, but until we can disprove government statements and get public opinion itself changed, we have fat chance of getting anything done about it.

-D

[ovrtym33]

hi guys im fairly new here, shane's the name, but i for one am feeling the brunt of 1 nasty cop from monday! no reason to pull me over want even behind me he was coming other direction at a set of lights which i was turning right at. Looked at my car could only see front end with front mount turned left to where i was turning then waited for me. then procedes to say he has pulled me over because the car sounded to loud?? it must have good ears cause at idle at a busy intersection with trucks. neway cut a long story short did me for 3.2 decibells to loud. straight to regency. so far the bill is looking towards 3 mayb 4gz to get back on the road!

so ne1 that drives around outer habour, port adelaide and wingfield needs to be very careful as this guy and his mate have been defecting all imports. so far i have been able to find 16 in the area since monday.

to add salt to the wound he then tries telling me to take it to 1 place in perticular which makes me think that he may be getting some incentives???

but who knows he's costing me a fortune atm!

was this guy fat n had a aksent????

if so its the same 1 that did me at arndale for being 6 decibels 2 loud

[Carbon 34]

simple, get every high performance car in town to stage a blockade slowdown at rush hour...lol . like the truckies do to protest things and invite today tonight to attend .at least it would bring it out , how much the state get in taxes from all of us spending money on cars, etc.

might work and it would be a new record car show attendance too..lol

i'm sure there is enough cars to make it worth while and not enough cops to defect all of them ..lol

or maybe a huge charity event,,,for the cops christmas party fund......NOT!!!

lets drag one of there cars thru regency, bet it wont pass if they thought it belonged to a civilian instead of cops...lol its all about how they can f@ck us over for money legally , just like speed cameras save lives... yeah right!!! when you have to slam on your brakes to avoid a ticket from a dodgy camera setup wrong and the guy behind you slams into you cause he was on the phone in his semi truck....lol

[Chris#3]

Unfortunately that would never work and they would have a field day defecting as many cars as possible.

[scandyflick]

that would with plenty of groups, just not car enthusiasts.

[typevu]

Having all the modified cars in one spot would be like a kid in a candy store for the police lol

[Carbon 34]

yeah but it would be fun bringing the city to its knees on tv...lol

the cops would back down for sure. they dont like to be on tv acting like assholes to inoccent people.

had the cops on me like flys on shit again tonight, i wasnt doing anythng wrong except driving to f@kn slow because i didnt want to be hassled .. 3 of them between beach road and seaford.. little bastards find something else to do like following the commys dong burnouts a block down the beach - tools in 3.8L tuna boats.

watch the british (imported cops ) they are on the prowl big time in the south and they have heard all the excuses in england on modified cars, heard them licking each others butts at maccas - christies beach in the que, i thought they were getting off on it. hold the special sauce please..... pricks

had some wanker at moana walk up and ask me to rev my motor and burn out on the beach front.... hello the car isnt running its parked if you didnt notice? jackass !!!!he had his phone out to video it.prob for Utube.? didnt bother wasting my 18's for his stupid ass.

[GTR-32]

If you do they blockade thing, im sure theres a law against such a thing. and you'll have alot of ppl angry cos they want to get home and your in the way.

I wouldnt do it for the fact that they'll have almost every cop in Adelaide there pulling cars off the road and defecting them/locking them away for 48 hours.

[lunacys13]

i guess we could try it by making all our cars stock again or bring your stock import along. then go do it. then they will defect us unfairly like usual and we can all sue the f**k out of them and make our point on how they do this all the time and go "see see" channel 9.

or just have a fat protest with out our cars (and have a few stock imports there) and do it on foot. just to get the word out that we have had enough being taking advantage of etc etc.