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Just got defected because my exhaust is to loud 95.9 db and apparently the legal limit is 90 db dose any1 no where i could get a silencer from or if you have 1 for sale i could buy or if there is an easier way to pass

thanks

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I might have something to help you out.

They've really been cracking down lately, setting up in weird and wonderful places and stopping EVERYONE. I've never seen so much of it as in the past 3 weeks.

Observation - they pulled up approx 10-15 cars while they had me stopped and only pulled the the noise meter out on my car. Fortunately it was right on the border and they let me go. In saying that, he was only about 1-2m max from my zorst... I thought it had to be further than that?

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the silencers are now illeagle i had a rego muffler made up cost me 100 ages ago i got a recall letter telling me my zorst was to loud i put the rego one on drove over to dickson and the dude said to me is you engine running i said yeah well there isnt much point dooing the sound test then is there I lol'd

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the legal limit is 90. I had mine tested at before i could change rego over. mines just on the limit also, which is good to know cause i know they cant do shit.

i think they have to be 1.5m away from the end of the exhuast and in an open environment. if they do it next to a car or something hard then the sound can bounce of it and make it louder than what it is.

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Try telling that to the lil Paki bastard who always shows up at RTA check stations.

Haha.

It is always that same bl00dy guy every time! And there is no way what so ever that he is doing it by the book...

When I was defected, I got done for 95db... Right next to a curb surrounded by a V8 SS Ute and a WRX which were both being tested at the same time, yeh, thats fair.. Went over the RTA station and they just looked at the exhaust and it measured 79db...

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Hay all

Just got defected because my exhaust is to loud 95.9 db and apparently the legal limit is 90 db dose any1 no where i could get a silencer from or if you have 1 for sale i could buy or if there is an easier way to pass

thanks

I used city exhaust to make a quieter exhaust for rego-easy change over-just the end bit for a standardish if not a bit boring exhaust :(

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They've really been cracking down lately, setting up in weird and wonderful places and stopping EVERYONE. I've never seen so much of it as in the past 3 weeks.

Observation - they pulled up approx 10-15 cars while they had me stopped and only pulled the the noise meter out on my car. Fortunately it was right on the border and they let me go. In saying that, he was only about 1-2m max from my zorst... I thought it had to be further than that?

This falls into the same line as my questioning on the speed camera/radar deal. Same idea: any rules and regs to be found on dB requirements/ testing protocol?

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I think all this defect rule is there to provide annoyance to people who own imports.

I don't think RTA people really care about defecting your car to reduce road toll, or improve air quality. They probably know that after the inspection, you'll put the loud exhaust back on anyway.

When we were driving down to Batemans bay, an old lady did about 70km/h in a 100km/h zone for a very long time, single lane highway and overtaking lanes were scarce. She was blocking 20 cars behind her. A number of cars did some seriously dangerous overtaking manuveours, narrowly missing oncoming traffic. None of these were Japanese import sports cars and they were not speeding.

Even more serious accidents happen when you fall asleep at the wheels, even with your eyes open.

Again, this is not related to speeding.

My point is, picking on defects on cars is not related to increased road toll on long weekends.

The slogan should be "Difference in speed kills"... not "Speed kills".

Nobody speeds during double demerit time, but they overtake cars a lot more (because there are some really slow drivers on highways) and drive while sleepy. No wonder road toll still remains high on every long weekends.

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