What The Heck?

[bubba]

Emissions concerns.

[fcruz3r]

never been stickered before...knock on wood

but if u get a yellow for say the exhaust being too low...can they find other faults with your car while at the pits and add stuff to the list on the defect notice??

[bubba]

Yes.

[R32 Driver]

never been stickered before...knock on wood

but if u get a yellow for say the exhaust being too low...can they find other faults with your car while at the pits and add stuff to the list on the defect notice??

They look over your whole car, not just what's on the defect notice.

So have I.

And, if it's the first pass over the pits with a fresh sticker, they will check the whole car.

P.S. PowerFC is a full standalone ECU, you might be thinking of the Commander Tom, that is the handset/controller.

Hide the hand controller in the glove box

so unless there ripping up the interior they wont see the ecu

and Yes they will go over the whole car not just whats on the list

they only time they just go over the list is on the 2nd/3rd/4th attempt to check if you've rectified problems previously picked up

read bro

[syfon]

Absolutely. When you get stickered and take it over the pits, the inspector will go over your whole car and make sure every aspect is roadworthy.

[stormtrooper]

Awesome. So this morning I spoke to a Snr Sgt at South Fremantle Traffic and he had a look into the incident for me. Explained that whilst the taxi driver may have been speeding, they can turn a blind eye to this sort of stuff if they are more worried about a possible unroadworthy defect (my legal exhaust....) on another car. Hence they pulled me over.

He called up Osborne Park inspections for me and told me to go out there and see a bloke, Graham Parks, nice guy too.

Comes out and goes and grabs a 100mm piece of polly pipe about 3m long (I am not kidding ) and rolls it under the car and said "Yep, she's fine there's no way this was stopping for anything" Awesome. He had a look at my tint (the undercover area is a little dark even in broad daylight) and goes and grabs the light measurement tool. No worries, comes back out I wind down a window for him, and I asked him waht teh legal tint was he said %35. Sure enough, the light meter is around 31-32%. Sweet.

He had a look inside my cabin and didn't say a word about boost guage OR the boost controller, I had tucked the PFC controller under the center console though heh.

Pop the bonet, asked me why my belt cover was not on the front, said (and Travis can vouch for this lol) that it was like that when I got the car, just need to get the bolts for it so I can put it back on. No worries. No questions about the aftermarket turbo's or anything else. Asked me if the exhaust was loud at all and told him I hadn't had any complaints before or anything.

So I go back inside and sit down, he goes off and makes a few phone calls, comes back and we went out to the car, he took the sticker off and didn't charge me a red cent.

Bloody beautiful.

[dan_the_man]

Well that wrapped itself up nicely.

[SKYRYAN]

That's fkn awesome hahah

He had a look at my tint (the undercover area is a little dark even in broad daylight) and goes and grabs the light measurement tool. No worries, comes back out I wind down a window for him, and I asked him waht teh legal tint was he said %35. Sure enough, the light meter is around 31-32%. Sweet.

PS. The tint percentage I believe is the amount of light let through. 0% being no light, 100% probably being your window is down heheh

So 31-32% is illegal

But yeah I managed to get through with 20%, I don't even remember him checking my tint. Had the windows down but still..

[stormtrooper]

Yeah, I decided to just call the guys up and be straight about the whole thing, make my point and let em know what had happened etc. Seems to go down well when you approach the subject level headed (as opposed to the guys handing out the lickys who can be tyrants, as proved on saturday night).

I think the inspector mentioned something about "rounding down the report to 20%" or something to that effect, but said that 35% or over on his light meter was illegal heh. Nice.

[Pattygtst]

wrong

they only have to give 30 minutes which they allow you to get home

if they are real c*nts they can red sticker which cant be driven from the moment the sticker is placed

or theycan even go green and then ya not even allowed to sell it

Lol red sticker they dont exist anymore.

Anyways i would be checking firstly if your car is infact yellow worhty as they got the number plate details wrong. I would imagine it would still be valid as these morons make these mistakes often and they would have a back up for this.

Unfortunetly whether your in the right or not you can get a sticker for nothing. Just make sure the car is all good and take it through the pits.

Wouldn't be too concerned about it mate, if your car is all legal then it will get over the pits fine, then good ol' mr. officer has signed his name on the papers, you take that to the police station, say you would like to make a complaint and you want reimbursement for any money you lost going over the pits.

Lol

That wouldnt work dude.

[ecentrix]

Thats f**king awesome Chris!

:D

Your car sounds nice can you please bring to cruise?

[stormtrooper]

hahahah ! When did you hear it?? Was that you at Glendalough today at 12:30? bloody parking...

Edit: aah fail, just noticed you have 32 GTR aswel, in the spotted thread noted that I saw a black R33 at Glendalough heh. But yeah I'm definately bringing to a cruise soon

Edited October 5, 2009 by stormtrooper

[Pattygtst]

That's fkn awesome hahah

PS. The tint percentage I believe is the amount of light let through. 0% being no light, 100% probably being your window is down heheh

So 31-32% is illegal

But yeah I managed to get through with 20%, I don't even remember him checking my tint. Had the windows down but still..

I went through with 5%

All inspectors will do the general checks, lights, indicators and jack up front and check the wheels are on right hten obviosuly whats on the list of defects Anyhting else is totally up to them. Saying they will check everything is completely un true.

[bubba]

jack up front and check the wheels are on right

lol first time I've heard of that.. maybe the inspector I got figured if I can build/swap an engine I can bolt the wheels on fine

P.S. nice work stormer! are you following it up to seek reimbursement for time off work??

[stormtrooper]

Nah, Won't go that far mate, I managed to sneak out the office on my way to a client site and get it done in between No skin off my nose. I got the result I wanted so I'm stoked hehe

[bubba]

Fair call. If it was me I would have taken them for a ride

[Pattygtst]

lol first time I've heard of that.. maybe the inspector I got figured if I can build/swap an engine I can bolt the wheels on fine

You must of made him feel awkward with your gheyness. He just wanted to get rid of you

[stormtrooper]

You must of made him feel awkward with your gheyness. He just wanted to get rid of you

Prolly started talking about his RB30 lol j/k haha

[Hanaldo]

Lol

That wouldnt work dude.

Worked for me, I got full reimbursement for the first pit visit, given that everything the officer put down on the sticker was laughable. The cops can sticker you for whatever they want, thing is technically they have to be right about it. They are not meant to sticker you unless they know you car is defectable. Some cops still do, and they are taking the chance that you won't make a complaint about it. I did, and i got my money back

[R32 Driver]

Congrats on the outcome storm

Hanaldo how did you go about getting reimbursed?