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MissR34

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Drove down south today; was VERY surprised at how many undercover police cars were getting around. Spotted 4 heading different directions within 10mins.

One undercover driving in front of me today was too busy looking in his side mirror at me he swerved in to a bike lane, no further than 30m up the road was a cyclist in the bike lane. I did note a slight jerk of the steering wheel lol.

That old saying.... Do as I say; not what I do.

kalel Collaborator

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I copied and pasted this from the legislation that was linked to previously

Division 13—Interior lights

107—Interior lights

A vehicle may be fitted with interior lights that illuminate any interior part of the

vehicle.

The way I read it is that you can have what ever interior light you want to illuminate the interior of your vehicle, providing it does not eminate from the inside of your vehicle thus causing a distraction to other motorists.

I guess that they don't want people to be able to to give the appearance of being an emergency vehicle or undercover cop car. Which is fair enough. I think to have different colour dash lights would be fine or other interior light, providing it does not cause a distraction to other motorists. Now what we deem to be a distraction and what someone else deems to be a distraction are two different things. Since it is the police that enforce the legislation, I guess it is up to them ultimately.

One could argue that the flash on the front of a mobile speed camera vehicle goes against what is in the legislation, but I am not going there.

MissR34 Grand Master

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kalel: its not like the interior light is on all the time whne your driving though, so really i guess the coppa gave me the wrong info on the interior light topic.

rubzy: it wouldnt suprise me though. but that would be like saying no cars are to have body kits. it ridiclous

pixel8r Mentor

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I believe the official definition is its illegal to have any colour light that it doesn't come with from the factory. ie. Some BMW's etc can legally have blue lights on the front if they are fitted with them from the factory. I dont think they have to be the same lights, just the same colour, or any other legal colour.

Other than this, the only colours allowed on the front are white, and orange, and at the rear its white, orange and red.

I never heard the bit about interior lights - that is going a bit far IMO but its true they will get you for anything if they want to.

I can see the reason for limiting what colour lights you have on the front. Its fair enough IMO...

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Miss_r34: you are right. Unless you start having extra lights an stuff in your car. extra glowing gauges or something. I think mostly it is trivial garbage. You see some of the bombs driving on the road. I wouldn't even let a crash test dummy in one. I can see the view point of the police and legislation though given what some people do to their cars. like that girl in the laser on the last sau cruise who apparently didn't have any brakes but had a beefed up turbo for it.

go figure!

Dohmar Grand Master

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Drove down south today; was VERY surprised at how many undercover police cars were getting around. Spotted 4 heading different directions within 10mins.

One undercover driving in front of me today was too busy looking in his side mirror at me he swerved in to a bike lane, no further than 30m up the road was a cyclist in the bike lane. I did note a slight jerk of the steering wheel lol.

That old saying.... Do as I say; not what I do.

Yeah I saw a few undercovers on Sunday too... heading up to Mt Barker along the freeway, a recent model commodore sped past me (which I always find hilarious) and not less than 5 minutes later I passed him and a cop by the side of the road. I think that we've finally found a use for commodore drivers...

-D

PS. Road from Strathalbyn to Goolwa is >Awesome<. Same can't be said for the road from Victor Harbor to Yankalilla (unsealed, good if ur a rally nut but bad if u wanna keep ur front bar unchipped ;P)

Mr Sniper911 Community Regular

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It think the interior light thing would be the ppl that still insist on having neons on the back parcel shelf etc.... also those annoying blue leds on the windscreen nozzles (you know the ones that spray water.....

Or

They could be trying to get rid of the wannabe trucks.... you know the country boys utes that have all the lights like a truck "bundy utes" bahahaha

I passed 6 different police cars down the sturt highway on Sunday.... 4 were doing radar duty......

MissR34 Grand Master

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but according to the vehicle standards, whether it is a red, blue, pink or purple interior light, they are legal, cause it dosent say any particluar colours like the parker light does. it is very odd

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