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The other night was driving around bored as usual, when i noticed a friend of mine got pulled over I stoppped to see what the fuss was about.The cop pulled up a V8 commodore big lumpy cam exhuast dumpped at the diff you get the idea,my poor mate in a stock s14 with slight mod's got defected for as much as you could think of then the cop let the V8 go we asked what the go was his answer "Did you hear that thing i'm not going to spend all night going over it". What right do uninformed police have to defect cars when they dont even know what the car is half the time he thought the S14 was a R33. Anyway i thought it was a bit rude.

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Hehehe yeah I used to get off all the time in my V8, its like cops expect them to be loud or something.

If in VIC then I agree that the whole 'canary' thing is just another tool for police to use as harassment / revenue raising, like the unmarked civvy camera cars.

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Cool, another defect thread to add to the hundreds on this site.

1. Your friends stock s14 is not stock if it is modified

2. They have every right to defect any car regardless if they are qualified to do so or not.

They only need to have an opinion on the modification to determine if they should defect it or not. The person that clears the defect determines if it is a legal modification.

The RTA list what modifications are allowed to be carried out in their light vehicle modification guide. If in doubt, talk to an engineer to see if the modification is legal and to get an engineers report on the modification.

Not fuc king rocket science is it!

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Unfortunately true.

And yes this has been done before, however I've noticed that NSW cops tend to actually defect for unroadworthy things, whereas VIC cops if they want to defect you they just make up excuses about ride height, handbrake clicks, missing tyre placards etc etc. What annoys me the most though is that something that is in fact legal in NSW you can still get done in VIC for.

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