E370 Ticket!!!
10-15-2012, 11:10 AM
#1
E370 Ticket!!!
I'm sure this will possibly cause a stir, especially amongst those of us who love our Motordyne E370 exhausts. 2am Sunday morning coming back from a friends house after watching the MMA fights, I was pulled over on Rte 1 in Fairfax County VA and ticketed...no I was NOT speeding. Anyone familiar with Rte 1, knows that they "hawk" it religiously and thus you should know better than to speed while driving on it...
I saw the police officer driving on the opposite side of the road, pass me, throw on his lights to make a U-turn and then run up on my back like I just robbed a liquor store...
He drove behind me for a short while and then threw his lights on and pulled me over...I was pissed because I knew for a fact that I wasn't speeding so what could possibly be the problem?! He walked up and asked for my license and reg...I asked why I was pulled over...he said that I had the most annoying exhaust he ever heard.
Yes I was ticketed. Yes I had a few choice words for him (but I will refrain from that negativity). I don't yet know the cost of the ticket...apparently you have to call in to find out the fee if you choose to pay the ticket and not take it to court.
Since having this exhaust installed I have many times had police officers ride behind me or beside me and not once before that morning had I been "sweated" about the sound of my exhaust.
Word for word...the ticket reads: "exhaust makes exccessive"...
Thats it.
I saw the police officer driving on the opposite side of the road, pass me, throw on his lights to make a U-turn and then run up on my back like I just robbed a liquor store...
He drove behind me for a short while and then threw his lights on and pulled me over...I was pissed because I knew for a fact that I wasn't speeding so what could possibly be the problem?! He walked up and asked for my license and reg...I asked why I was pulled over...he said that I had the most annoying exhaust he ever heard.
Yes I was ticketed. Yes I had a few choice words for him (but I will refrain from that negativity). I don't yet know the cost of the ticket...apparently you have to call in to find out the fee if you choose to pay the ticket and not take it to court.
Since having this exhaust installed I have many times had police officers ride behind me or beside me and not once before that morning had I been "sweated" about the sound of my exhaust.
Word for word...the ticket reads: "exhaust makes exccessive"...
Thats it.
10-15-2012, 12:52 PM
#5
back in the day on my old car, i put an exhaust on it and used to get pulled over for the exhaust (no it wasn't a honda), and they cop put it down as a noise ordinance since he could hear it over 25ft away (in west palm there was a big stereo problem with people playing them loud so cops pull people over at night for disturbing the peace, according ot the cop my exhaust fell in that category). personally i've heard the MD exhaust and while its loud, i don't think its obnoxious and excessive enough for that.
10-15-2012, 01:07 PM
#7
back in the day on my old car, i put an exhaust on it and used to get pulled over for the exhaust (no it wasn't a honda), and they cop put it down as a noise ordinance since he could hear it over 25ft away (in west palm there was a big stereo problem with people playing them loud so cops pull people over at night for disturbing the peace, according ot the cop my exhaust fell in that category). personally i've heard the MD exhaust and while its loud, i don't think its obnoxious and excessive enough for that.
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10-15-2012, 01:46 PM
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I got one on 267. cop followed me for 2 + miles through a toll booth and pulled me over....he told me $25 for the ticket but after court processing and other fees it's around $98 or so.... VA cops really suck.... got pulled over twice within 24 hours for tint (36%) and front tags and they were doing a check point at a toll booth.... enough of state troopers ordered front tag brackets and removing tint very soon....
10-15-2012, 01:48 PM
#9
Wow I'm glad I don't live in the bigger cities like you guys do. I used to have a 03 Z with Berk HFC's, Stillen Y-pipe and an Agency Power single 3in. exhaust. With the 4.08 gears I installed I was doing almost 4k rpms at 60mph. It was HELLA loud. Like set off car alarms easily loud. And I never once got pulled over.
10-15-2012, 01:52 PM
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10-15-2012, 01:54 PM
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Virginia law states that it is illegal to modify a vehicle from it's factory specifications. If you mod a car in VA, then you are accepting the risk of getting ticketed. When I was in VA (moved to TN about 3 months ago), I received 5 tint tickets on my last car (Scion tC), and was threatened with a ticket for the exhaust on the car -- the cop was convinced not to write the ticket when I showed him it was a TRD exhaust, which is a factory option, thus making it a manufacturer speced exhaust.
Sorry for the luck, but you should expect more tickets in the future if you have a modded car in Virginia.
Sorry for the luck, but you should expect more tickets in the future if you have a modded car in Virginia.
10-15-2012, 02:05 PM
#12
Virginia law states that it is illegal to modify a vehicle from it's factory specifications. If you mod a car in VA, then you are accepting the risk of getting ticketed. When I was in VA (moved to TN about 3 months ago), I received 5 tint tickets on my last car (Scion tC), and was threatened with a ticket for the exhaust on the car -- the cop was convinced not to write the ticket when I showed him it was a TRD exhaust, which is a factory option, thus making it a manufacturer speced exhaust.
Sorry for the luck, but you should expect more tickets in the future if you have a modded car in Virginia.
Sorry for the luck, but you should expect more tickets in the future if you have a modded car in Virginia.
Lol
10-15-2012, 03:07 PM
#13
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10-15-2012, 08:50 PM
#15
I got one on 267. cop followed me for 2 + miles through a toll booth and pulled me over....he told me $25 for the ticket but after court processing and other fees it's around $98 or so.... VA cops really suck.... got pulled over twice within 24 hours for tint (36%) and front tags and they were doing a check point at a toll booth.... enough of state troopers ordered front tag brackets and removing tint very soon....
* Rotora BBK
* HKS dual exhaust
* 8% limo tint
* Tinted tails
* CAI
* headers
LOL, i was like WTF....im up here on business! So they let me off with 6 warnings. LMAO