P-plater Driving Turbo

[tjandriesen]

im on greens (in NSW) so i dont have restricitions on driving my r33 gtst but its still a pain in the ass cos i get pulled over everytime i sit in my car. I dont speed or anything and the cop always says im just pulling you over to do a licence check, fair enough but then it gives them an excuse to do RBT, defect checks, i get my number plates checked to make sure car isnt stolen etc.

it takes like 30min everytime and i am always late for work. i Have to leave 30min earlier than normal and its bloody stupid.

Its getting to the stage of harrassement!!!!!

The reason you get bothered is because of the other muppet P-Platers in here who think they have a right to drive illegally. If P-platers wonder why older drivers aren't sympathetic - it is because a large number of (though obviously not all) P-Platers in a Skyline act up and make life difficult for reasonable car enthuasists.

I think those guys need to discovery the power of VTEC......

[SL33KY]

I'm a green p-plater was well (not for much longer yay!) and drive a worked gts-t. Like what most of you have been saying, I was lucky enough to get my p's before the cut off date and restrictions came in.

I have to say they are a good thing and a bad thing, when you're doing your allowed 100km/h along the 110km/h highway and some idiot fully licenced driver speeding and almost take off your ass end because he's too stupid to notice your P's on your car, I feel a little safer knowing I have that extra power to avoide a potentially dangerous situation, also with merging on highways you can get up to speed a sh*tload faster.

*Touches wood* I haven't had any troubles with cops so far and hope I don't any time soon. It's a shame that the rest of you get picked on

[Jago]

hate to burst your bubble, but i think that if you get your P's AFTER the cut off date, then it's for both green and red P's. (i don't care if it's been mentioned before, i really couldn't be f*cked reading through the rest of the posts after mapge 2).

As for troubles with the cops, never had them. Only been pulled over once by an undercover, didn't even do a defect check, just a breath test and off he went. The other two times was during the cronulla riots ( i live in the shire, so it was on my way home), didn't get searched though.

I wonder if they really do check though.

[Kinks]

The moral of the story is, P platers shouldnt drive high perfomance because most are like me.. stupid, have a need for speed and in-experenced. I feel driving in a less powered car is a good way to work up to a high powered car as I wouldnt have been able to drive out of some of the situations ive put myself in without being in those other cars first.

Exactly. I've been driving for 10 years and I STILL make the occasional brain fart. They become less frequent with age and experience helps you get out of them. There is no substitute for experience, overconfidence when you're on your Ps can be a killer especially when mixed with a powerful car.

[GMan]

thanks for eveyones replies...some helped more than others lolz

jus got the car registered under my name and jus put in the exemption request form