the problem with that is most of the people who inspect our cars for defects know less then the police and trust the police are correct and make you do what the officer has written on the defect right or wrong, if the police learnt a bit more about the laws they are policing as spicific squad to ensure road safety and not real crimes, then maybe they would stop handing out BS defects and therefore not be disliked by the public as much,
after 7 years and countless check by the police and RTA defect stations ( old super cruse days to the gong), i was pulled over by a HWP officer while driving from my house under the speed limit to a place where me and some freinds meet to catch up and as he approached my window he says "funking tyres you have on the back how much did they cost" i reply " $500 a tyre " he replies " so you've got some money then ", then the usuall open your bonnent starts, so i released bonnent then i got out of car to see him kick the lower lip on the front of my car and say that is to low ( 160mm off ground ) then i open bonnent and straight away you can't have pods ( BS no polution equipment has been removed or oltered and they are sucerly mounted so they ARE legal ) they don't comly with the ADRs, so i ask what ADR don't they comply with, he responese with " I don't need to know that i just need to know they don't comply" , if you don't know what they have to comply to how do you know they don't comply, then i ask whats the problem with them and says " they are a fire risk as they get a build up of fuel fumes " so i say " so what you're saying is the fuel fumes on a fuel injected car that only releases fuel when running is going to go backwards through the 6 throttle bodies then the intercooler and the two turbos and up to the filters while the air is flowing the other way" and he responds with "we police know the rules and about cars and you can't have pods"then he handed me a decfect for tyres ( RE 55s )ride hieght and pods but didn't give me my liecence back, when i relised he hadn't i went to the police station he was from hours later to be told he had put it in the internal post system, i didn't get it for 4 weeks and as i drive a truck for work was forced to drive without it on me which is illegal and i nearly got booked for it if it wasn't for the proby the oficer had with him on the defect wasn't at the RBT station and remembered me, cause they where going to fine me until she said someting
i got paper work from the RTA saying there is nother relating to pod filters in the ADRs only the fact some car use the air filter box as noise polution (and is is genarlly only hondas ), took it to the local pink slip shop ( which is a bridgstone dealer ship ) he sells these tyres and knows there street legal, the ride hight is 160mm so legal and from the paper work from RTA pods are fine to
now i was as nice as i could to the officer, as i usally am, till i know he was a prick and i was getting a defect no matter what, now i'm not saying all HWP are like this bit it is cause of officers like this that they are all hated and it didn't matter how nice i was he was giving me a defect no matter what