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Clear or smoked?

Neither,

BUlb popped on the way to rocklea I stopped and got a bulb to change it

Pulled out my rear tail light to show there adr compliant too.... fair bit of experiance arguing defects .. sa is king for it. He Wasnt expecting me to strip it or argue with the front end.

JUst need to be polite know your legislation and most importantly keep your mods legal (ish :-p)

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Updated page from downshift guys. Seems this is being taken quite seriously with a lot of evidence and data being collected from many sources. Good to see that this wasn't just shoved under the rug... how far we get is a completely different ball game.

http://www.downshiftaus.com/2013/an-open-letter-to-the-premier/

This is a good step. also actually might consider voting for the AMEP now.. :)

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Alternatively, we can just make 'Motoring Enthusiast" a religion and driving of performance vehicles is a requirement. Then they are discriminating against religion ;)

But as I say, we know that they have targeted these events and that's why I don't attend. I'd much rather have the Maxima moving around LP or QR instead of parked up in a show. That's just me.

If you know that the event has a stigma and a high chance of this sort of behaviour, why attend?

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All this talk with the cop bullshit and latest crap associated with downshift has me worried about gettin a defect for my basically standard Gtr I just got ! Was nearly guna go to that DS meet glad I didn't ! My car has just been complied to meet Aussie car standards with a few tweaks to get it past that cops don't know, so could I use that as an argument if one challenges me about a defect issue? When and if the day arrives I get pulled up.

I only have tein coilovers but only lowered to a reasonable level not on its guts,

Stainless exhausts n cannon that's not super loud

Mushroom hks air filters with hks intake piping to AFM

And a electronic boost controller that is right up under the bottom steering column cover out of sight. All the rest is standard but the way these cops seem to be carrying on seems if I don't drive a Camry or commodore executive your guna get a defect notice!?!?!?! Absolute joke and a real negative vibe they are creating for themselves I think, no wonder they get called 'p.i.g.s' !

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MOD PLATE EVERYTHING! Your car is cleaner than my GTR and I get very little attention. Remove the boost controller, its a defect. Get a mod plate for the exhaust and the suspension at the bear minimum. If you need a mod plate guy to come to you, let me know and I'll get the number of the guy that did mine. He was cheap and knew all the rules.

I hate cop attention as much as the next guy, we need to stand together and show these dream boats cops we WILL NOT GO AWAY!

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The club released its statement regarding the AMEP/ DS/ Grunt Files at the AGM. This will be available to members shortly.

In short, if you don't want to get defected, drive like a normal person, fly under the radar and don't have anything outrageously stupid on your car.

In the last 24 months, we've only had one member defected. This is because we don't go to events that attract the police.

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So roll over and hope the problem goes away?

Take the company ute/van to the next car show in fear of the GTR being defected? Bit unfair isn't it?

Soon all car cruises will be bog stock caddies sprinters and hilux utes! Bit plain and boring

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Cheers hr31gts got a number for a mobile guy to do mod plates, don't drive round like a 'p platin hoon' respect my car and the law but ya can't help a cop with attitude and power trip most of the time!

That's it pretty boring car meet if we all rock up with our family/standard wagons.

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So roll over and hope the problem goes away?

Take the company ute/van to the next car show in fear of the GTR being defected? Bit unfair isn't it?

Soon all car cruises will be bog stock caddies sprinters and hilux utes! Bit plain and boring

Personally, I don't like going to shows. I'd much rather actually drive the wheels off my car and prefer track work. Unfortunately this hasn't happened much lately but it will always be the preference.

I'm not saying sit there and take it, I'm saying avoid events where they've got a poor reputation. Events like DS are notorious for cop trouble so why attend?

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as i own a 180sx i originally was on nissansilvia.com for a while but they had a reputation for getting in to trouble at events and cruises, this the main reason I'm apart of SAU. the first meet i went to with nissanslivia was at the P4 carpark at homebush, i parked down the road and walked in. i was there five minutes before the cops blocked off all the exits.

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as i own a 180sx i originally was on nissansilvia.com for a while but they had a reputation for getting in to trouble at events and cruises, this the main reason I'm apart of SAU. the first meet i went to with nissanslivia was at the P4 carpark at homebush, i parked down the road and walked in. i was there five minutes before the cops blocked off all the exits.

This is true. Sau has a pretty good rep nationally!

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The AMEP have a site on Facebook that have updates about the situation on Sunday and progress they are having with talking to police comissioners and discussing improvements to discrimination against modified cars. Worth a read if interested or anyone has input and evidence for them as further ammunition to help stop the power trippin cops out there.

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