Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

Hey,

Yesterday me and my brother headed to Autotekica at Morphettville for a bit of a look. He parked his car (VX Clubsport) inside the grounds and we proceeded into the show. After coming out after an hour or so we jumped inot his car and made(tryed) our way out of the car park. To our discust 2 traffic cops were waiting at the gates before heading on to Morphett rd. The cop told my brother to pull up next to his patrol car. We got out and asked what the problem was. He shouted to the other officer ' gees this ones low mate, that wont pass', then asked my brother to pop the bonnet. he had a look could see anything (not that he knew what he was looking for). Then got out his window tint tester and told us that it failed.

IN the end, he handed a defect notice over.

My point is.......... this is farked! What sort of public relations is this for the police to be waiting outside of a carshow pulling people over??

The VX Clusport is stock except of suspension mods.

What can be done in the future to stop this bullshit happening??

Cheers :P

Edited by -SKYLINE-

In the past Cops and Transport SA have had NFI about anything to do with cars. If your windows is stock standard, show proof from dealer where you brought the car. If they say it fails tell transport SA to take it up with Holden or HSV because it wouldn't be allowed to be registered in the first place or made if it didn't meet ADR.

If they haven't ping'd you on the suspension get it checked to make sure it is legal before being a Smart ASS!

BTW the coppers in SA is all about revenue raising that's what it is all about speed camera's radars everthing! It's because the state Gov over there has no bloody money.

Thats rough! Our government is about money. Anyone would think that having a low car is like a murder these days, well it seems like it. What happened to the real police that fight real crime?

Thats rough! Our government is about money. Anyone would think that having a low car is like a murder these days, well it seems like it. What happened to the real police that fight real crime?

Good question. What are they doing about they guys who meat cleavered my brother?... nothing meanwhile Ive been pulled over f$%k loads this year for being a skyline owner

What i don't understand is that the police are trying to get "us" to do our fast driving out on a track. for an example there was also a radargun set up behind some trees on the way out of Mallala after the drift. This sort of thing is going to stop people from attending these events.

Fuzzy scuz windows are tinted by the dealer not the manufacturer. If this is how it was done on delivery make a complaint to them.

I witnessed this too. They pick on us because we are an easy target. Its too easy for them to set up a defect station at the exit of a car show. combating real crime and real problems is obviously not their priority. It shits me to constantly hear that us import drivers are hoons driving our illegal skylines that are too low and too loud ..ect .. whatever else..

how many fatalities happened this weeked?? with the two combined mannum and coonalpyn accidents, it was quite a fair few!!! i dont think the crowds of police at morphettville racecourse did anything to help/prevent situations like this with their defect stations! because from what i understand drivers actions were to blame in both cases not vehicle modifications or the cars they drove & in one case a troublesome corner was to blame due to bad road surface in an area that should not be rated at 110kph.

sorry for the rant

When we went to the car show on sunday, there were 3 cop cars INSIDE the gates where all the cars were parked, defecting vehicles as they came in or as they left.

yep that would of been the same *%$#@ that defected us!!

Its not on. As some of the other guys were saying, its gonna stop people from attending these events.

There was some guy that started talking to us when we were getting defected...... i think he had something to do with the event - he started harrassing the cops until they told him to rack off or they would arrest him! - he was an oldish bloke about 6'ft tall with a bit of a gut, wearing a brownish vest, does any body know him????

cheers for the comments boyz! :D

yep that would of been the same *%$#@ that defected us!!

Its not on. As some of the other guys were saying, its gonna stop people from attending these events.

There was some guy that started talking to us when we were getting defected...... i think he had something to do with the event - he started harrassing the cops until they told him to rack off or they would arrest him! - he was an oldish bloke about 6'ft tall with a bit of a gut, wearing a brownish vest, does any body know him????

cheers for the comments boyz! :wave:

That was Graeme Rutgers who runs/owns AME.

He was well pissed with the police. :)

Good question. What are they doing about they guys who meat cleavered my brother?... nothing meanwhile Ive been pulled over f$%k loads this year for being a skyline owner

No shit hey! They should start by cleaning up the dickheads around my area.

I've seen coppers at nearly every import car event in the last year. Autosalon, SCS, Autotecknica. Haven't they got something better to do with their time?

And I'd be spewing if they told me my tint's illegal... it's dark but it was complied, and it also past a regency inspection without problems. If they told me i had to rip it off i would be well pissed off.

I was going to take my car, but a mate said that they are defecting there, so i left it at home and took my girlfriends car... and went to a mates place instead :P

I agree i am sick of being treated like a dangerous criminal because my car has an engine swap, brakes which make it stop better and suspension which handles better. Sure its a little loud and ? its not like we sit out the front of somewhere revving.

Yeh cops are getting worse everyday. picking on people just because they choose not to drive around a slow, stock family car.

the other day i got out of work at midnight to find my car in an empty carpark with a bike cop sitting on his a$$ next to it waiting for me. i look at him and get in my car and drive about 10 metres when he follows and flashes me. he questions me where iv been and what i was doing and where im going, brethos me, inspects the WHOLE car gets me to rev the engine (had no idea what to look for). after that he tells me to go straight home and that he doesnt want to see this car 'hooning' the streets.

Usually cops are alright but this 1 was a real prick he talked to me like i was a murderer or something. its cops like that who get pleasure out of siting outside a car show trying to defect every imported or modified car.

WELL WELL WELL NO SHIT! I have been spewing about these dickheads (cops)for ages and all the moderators want to do is rip my posts....... i'm sick of the cops and their revenue raising shit. its about time all of us rallied in king william street outside parliament house with all our modified cars and blocked North terrace.... CLASS ACTION is what im saying if we all band together and park all our cars outside parliament house to make our protest peacefully we may get some action..... apart from that PUT up with it and stop whining.

its about time all of us rallied in king william street outside parliament house with all our modified cars and blocked North terrace....

errr.. that's not the sort of action i'm talking about. But I understand your sentiments.

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Here is the mess that I made. That filler there was successful in filling dents in that area. But in the middle area. I can feel dents. And I've gone ocer it multiple times with filler. And the filler is no longer there because i accidently sanded it away. I've chased my tail on this job but this is something else lol. So I'm gonna attempt filler one more time and if it doesn't work I'll just high fill primer the door and see where the issues are because guidecoat is of no use atm.
    • Ok, so I think I sort of figured out where I went wrong. So I definitely overthinked it, and I over sanded, which is probably a large part of the problem. to fix it, I ended up tapping some spots that were likely to be high, made them low, filled them in, and I tackled small sections at a time, and it feels a lot better.    I think what confused me as well is you have the bare metal, and some spots darker and some are lighter, and when I run my finger across it, it' would feel like it's a low spot, but I think it's just a transition in different texture from metal to body filler.    When your finger's sliding on the body filler, and crosses over to the bare metal, going back and forth, it feels like it's a low spot. So I kept putting filler there and sanding, but I think it was just a transition in texture, nothing to do with the low or high spot. But the panel's feels a lot better, and I'm just going to end up priming it, and then I'll block it after with guide coat.   Ended up wasting just about all of my filler on this damn door lol  
    • -10 is plenty for running to an oil cooler. When you look at oil feeds, like power steering feeds, they're much smaller, and then just a larger hose size to move volume in less pressure. No need for -12. Even on the race cars, like Duncans, and endurance cars, most of them are all running -10 and everything works perfectly fine, temps are under control, and there's no restrictions.
    • Update: O2 sensor in my downpipe turned out to be faulty when I plugged in to the Haltech software. Was getting a "open circuit" warning. Tons of carbon buildup on it, probably from when I was running rich for a while before getting it corrected. Replaced with new unit and test drove again. The shuffle still happens, albeit far less now. I am not able to replicate it as reliably and it no longer happens at the same RPM levels as before. The only time I was able to hear it was in 5th going uphill and another time in 5th where there was no noticeable incline but applying more throttle first sped it up and then cleared it. Then once in 4th when I slightly lifted the throttle going over a bump but cleared right after. My understanding is that with the O2 sensor out, the ECU relies entirely on the MAP tune and isn't able to make its small adjustments based on the sensors reading. All in all, a big improvement, though not the silver bullet. Will try validating the actuators are set up correctly, and potentially setting up shop time to tune the boost controller on closed loop rather than the open loop it is set to now. Think if it's set up on closed loop to take the O2 reading, that should deal with these last bits. Will try to update again as I go. 
    • More so GReddy oil relocation kits, sandwich plates, etc. all use 10AN fittings. And same, I've only used 10AN and my car sees track work (circuit, doing laps, not 10 sec squirt business).
×
×
  • Create New...