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got pulled over last night cop took pics of the front/engine bay does this mean i should be expecting an EPA letter in the mail sometime soon?

and i need to buy/borrow stock r34 catback to clear height defect as mine's hanging too low :(

cant wait to sell this fkn car! :P

and Happy Easter

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It sure does, if there were visible modifications in your engine bay, (Top mount turbo, boost controller etc) you will be called in, if it was just a Pod filter and you have a cooler, you will most likely get a letter from the EPA warning you to just put it back to standard.

If you do get done for heaps of modifications and you bring it in all converted back to standard, they will tell you this is not the same car, they circle everything they expect to see from the photo the police took of your engine bay.

Good luck anyway.

fark ur having a bad run!

yeh id expect an epa.. speshally cos u run pod + cooler yeh?

get ur exhaust tucked up thats what i did cost me $40 best thing i did though..

tell me about it man. nah ive got stock airbox on, the only visual mod is the cooler. i had a breather filter on as a temporary fix as i sliced the breather hose yesterday... he said that was illegal too. where did you get your exhaust raised? i took mine to some shop they said it cant go any higher i think they were just being lazy :down:

It sure does, if there were visible modifications in your engine bay, (Top mount turbo, boost controller etc) you will be called in, if it was just a Pod filter and you have a cooler, you will most likely get a letter from the EPA warning you to just put it back to standard.

If you do get done for heaps of modifications and you bring it in all converted back to standard, they will tell you this is not the same car, they circle everything they expect to see from the photo the police took of your engine bay.

Good luck anyway.

my cars only got basic bolt on mods nothing major. hope its only a warning...

epa apparently keep records of these pics, so you dont just take things off and put em back in.. so i've heard any way..

They'll sometimes scare ya with those EPA things, got told i'd have an epa in the mail.. 2-3 months later still nothing..

i dont think u will get a warning you'll either get told to go epa for test or nothing.. but i doubt it will be nothing. Almost any place can tuck ur exhaust i went to flexifit in hoppers crossing but yeh try another shop it can always go higher :down:

yeh itll be the breather filter thats got ya stuffed..

epa wont do u for the hole in the chassis the cops will do u for that.

is it justme or are the posts of i got epad getting more and more frequent as of late? cops are losing the plot these days was at chapel street last night in the car park in my freinds stock na vl talking to antoher guy and there were guys throwing bottles at cars and hit a supra from the roof of coles and the cop is wathcin then drives up to us goes get lost now or Ill defect you he goes what about those bottling cars he goes I dont care about that I want you to get lost

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yerp they are off their tree at the moment and get the herald sun some new super cop has been recruited to target hoons cos its just out of control apparntley.. i rkn it seems that hoons get more attention the swine flu..

lol

i was on my way back home from church which is like a 5min drive, doing 60 down a 70 road. this marked car going the opposite way spots me, puts his lights on, runs a red light does a u-turn comes speeding towards me and tells me to pull over.... yeah just doing his job ha lol

oh well

i got followed and pulled over 'randomly' on my way home last night.. ~1am in Eltham.

licence check, breath test, and he said he wanted to look at my spare tyre (just an excuse to sniff around in my boot i suppose) .. i told him i didn't have one in atm, and he warned me that that's a defect, so i told him i'd put it back in and showed him my pretty boot carpet anyway lol. i was nice and polite, told him i was just going home to bed and he sent me on my way. no mention of looking under the bonnet :down:

Spot on Dezz. Thanks for that.

There is no requirement for a spare wheel to be carried on a vehicle and the Standards for Registration exclude wheels not normally used in service from any requirements. However, where a spare wheel is carried it must be securely retained in or on the vehicle.

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