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Gurjot Rookie

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Its getting really bad...i live in Mill park..northern melbourne and iv been pulled over 7 times these last 6 months. I was definitly not doing anything stupid. Every time i had my engine checked, tires checked and 2 times was sent to EPA to test my exhaust. Its just stupid..

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Won't bother arguing bout how dodgy cops are but most r good and reasonable even with standard cars but in the end u have bought the gtr for the love of it, like I bought my gtst and gtt cos I always wanted a skyline. Just enjoy it while u have it mate, if the cops decide to act like cocks then that's nothing u can help. No one really appreciates fully sick kents who rip skids n make the rest of us look bad

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Its getting really bad...i live in Mill park..northern melbourne and iv been pulled over 7 times these last 6 months. I was definitly not doing anything stupid. Every time i had my engine checked, tires checked and 2 times was sent to EPA to test my exhaust. Its just stupid..

Serious? Surely not in the northern subs... You may have something very obvious on your car that warrants them to take a look.

or the car you are driving has some sort of "history" with the cops. :)

Cops in the northern subs generally don't care unless you seem to be driving erratically or driving in a suspicious manner. Cause they actually go out and fight the "real crime" and accidents as a priority - due to resources being stretched.

I imagine defecting someone is lower in their list.

As opposed to the east and south east where the crime rate is generally lower - so "possibly" more reasources are focused on the roads.

I've lived in different parts of northern subs for the past 22 years.

But since you are from Mill Park - they could be ramping up cause of the guy that decided to wrap himself and some friends around a tree back in January...

By the way I find the cops in the northern subs pretty tough (really lay down the law) but easy going and don't mind a friendly chat - I guess they have seen way too much - that nothing really shakes their world anymore. If only more cops were like this... but that's probably for another thread - and would be open to debate :cool:

krzysiu Grand Master

krzysiu

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Pft you can have illegal mods. Just make sure they don't find them :D my car looks 100% stock under the bonnet. So I don't care that they pull me over with my skittles paintjob because I never get defected haha

joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo Grand Master

joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo

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wow... now that's confidence...

your car is too loud for starters.... then there's the matter of the aftermarket turbo... your injectors are the wrong colour (epa guys can spot this)

from memory you have a hole cut for your fmic....

you could be reeeeeeemed

(but your car is DEFINATELY not too low) :D

Birds Grand Master

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After I get this EPA cleared I'll be taking Boronia Road from now on. f**k Burwood Highway and f**k the gauntlet. Most police I come across are nice and most cop cars don't give me more than a glance, but there's something about Knox TMU...

adznight Newbie

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After I get this EPA cleared I'll be taking Boronia Road from now on. f**k Burwood Highway and f**k the gauntlet. Most police I come across are nice and most cop cars don't give me more than a glance, but there's something about Knox TMU...

That's what I'm saying man, it's the area. Saying "oh you wont get pulled over looking stock" is just plain BS. It's a matter of time, unless you're out west or north. Come live out east and you'll see what I'm talking about. You'll be f**ked in the ass, I guarantee.

In saying that you can mod legally but really, what are your options? FMIC or POD, No ECU, no boost, no turbo change....whoopy do!

I had my kicker panel pulled off to check my ECU by the TMU, they are THAT thorough!! I'd swapped the PFC plate for the stock Nissan cover plate luckily.

ChakGTR Enthusiast

ChakGTR

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Yeap but just shows how useless cops are. I just don't go to Knox and I'm fine. Cops never questioned injectors or even knew it had a larger turbo. They really can't find shit lol

The cops r probs reading this lol...Now they know the bright orange Skyline is illegally modified.... :)

boostn0199 Grand Master

boostn0199

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The answer is simply if you can accept the fact when mod it you will get done eventually every now and then and if your prepared to deal with it rather then bitch about it then go ahead, me personally I like the mods I do and yes I hate getting done but to me driving my car with mods and enjoying it outweighs the price of getting done every now and then I just think of it as a extra tax for driving a skyline.

xALmoN Grand Master

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After I get this EPA cleared I'll be taking Boronia Road from now on. f**k Burwood Highway and f**k the gauntlet. Most police I come across are nice and most cop cars don't give me more than a glance, but there's something about Knox TMU...

I use burwood highway all the time, no dramas at all, but i've only had the supra for what, 1.5 months?

Which sections should i avoid?

UNR33L Grand Master

UNR33L

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I find stud road just as bad around the knox area, even my dad noticed he got a new Pajero from High street road / stud road corner and when he was checking up on the progress / paying stuff off, 3/4 of the times he was there he saw a commodore pulled over, soarer, and a skyline, just at the bus lane there..

Also thats where i got done once as well, even in my full hecktik non turbo bro.. they don't care apparently my P wasn't up even though it was.. just wrote a letter saying WTF? and got out of it. Driving normal too.

Birds Grand Master

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I use burwood highway all the time, no dramas at all, but i've only had the supra for what, 1.5 months?

Which sections should i avoid?

The whole of Knox man, but specifically the gauntlet (that section of traffic lights that 99% of the time you have to stop somewhere outside of Knox). I used to drive through there all the time with my Soarer, never got attention. And in a year of driving the R33, no worries either bar a couple of relatively unfair traffic infringements. But they will eventually get you on the defect. I drive through there at the moment but that's because I know I can thrust the defect/EPA notice in a cops face and say too late your colleague beat you to it f***face. Once the EPA is cleared I'll be avoiding at all costs.

High Street Rd, Stud Rd, Scoresby Rd, Ferntree Gully Rd...STAY AWAY!

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