Exhaust tickets....
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Alright, i just got a ticket today for my exhaust...i know that it's not the quietest thing on earth, but its not that loud either...hell, i still have my factory cat. anywho, what pisses me off about it was that i was already parked in a spot at school when the cop just comes up and turns his lights on behind me like 1 minute after i had parked and was just going to go to class...he then took 15 min. of my class time to write the ticket, then gave it to me using the new noise code thing. i had one question for him and that was "Why did I get a ticket when my muffler is stated to be 50 state legal"...he replied with "Well its not legal in Fargo, ND"...WOW what an ass...i think that i got pulled over bc i have 4 cyl. rims and a fartcan....maybe thats just me, but i felt as though i was profiled.
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Fight it like Hando said
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it's a fix it style ticket for $60...he just said that my exhaust is too loud and that a muffler is meant to quiet the vehicle down...i wasnt hot rodding at all, shifting @ 3-4k as normal (d15 doesnt make power til then...). today after i get a tire patched im gonna go over to the police office and ask an officer if he/she will listen to it because it honestly isnt that loud. i know a lot of you guys have heard what my car sounds like...the white del sol with a "carbon fiber" hood. It's a stock exhaust minus the DTM ebay style muffler and 2.5 catback...otherwise it's untouched. still with the stock cat. if my car is still deemed too loud by the cop that looks @ it then i'll put a new muffler on. i already ordered it, so its in the mail. it's a bit quieter. OBX twin loop. anywho, i'll do w/e i can to fight it because it's TOTAL bullshit!
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torbs wrote:
personally, this is what pisses me off the most "Why did I get a ticket when my muffler is stated to be 50 state legal"...he replied with "Well its not legal in Fargo, ND"...so apparently Fargo is considered the 51st state or somthing according to copsit might be legal in fifty states, but city ordinances still apply....
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what fargo NEEDS is a DB limit and cops to have DB meters. It's not right that it's up to what the cop thinks is loud or not...a "speed racer" car's noise level is amplified way more in cops' eyes than trucks or Harley's....also, why would a muffler product say 50 state emmission legal when it doesnt have anything to do with emmissions? They are just noise...non the less, i still think i was fucked...anywho, i'll just deal with it the best i can and hope for the best bc that's all i really can do...it really sux right now though bc $60 is all i have to my name right now...literally. I dont get it though...2 days ago i was followed by a cop for 1-2 miles and they didnt do anything. It was also fairly late at night when the cop followed me too as opposed to 8AM when everybody is going to work/school...IF i was getting on it and it was midnight or somthing like that, then i'd totally deserve the ticket, but it was during the day and i wasnt on it at all...w/e, cops will do what they do when they get bored and dont have anymore doughnuts to eat...
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btleier wrote:
the volume at idle is not the issue.WRONG BLAKE!!!!! So after i got my tires balanced today i decided to go down to the police station and have an officer check my exhaust. I started it, let it idle for LITERALLY 10 seconds and he wrote it off...so im glad that he wrote it off, but there needs to be an agreement among cops on what's loud and whats not. there NEEDS to be a DB meter and limit. anywho, yea....thats what happened.
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torbs wrote:
WRONG BLAKE!!!!! So after i got my tires balanced today i decided to go down to the police station and have an officer check my exhaust. I started it, let it idle for LITERALLY 10 seconds and he wrote it off...so im glad that he wrote it off, but there needs to be an agreement among cops on what's loud and whats not. there NEEDS to be a DB meter and limit. anywho, yea....thats what happened.right... but what I'm saying is that you're not going to get tickets sitting there at idle. It's going to be while you're driving that they hear your car, and write you the ticket. I know that when the measure the db of your exhaust they do test it at idle for one of the tests.
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