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last night i was just cruising along minding my own business when i heard the all to familiar wooop wooop and flash flash.

cops pulled me over for having fog lights on! how sad!

so i copped a fine for that plus the noob decides to fine me for having a auto licence and driving a manual car

now i'm poor and 2 less points on my licence..

i know its all my fault bla bla, yes i only got the car a day ago and i havent had time to go get my green Ps (which were only available for me 9 days ago)..

My question is... the cop fooked up on the fine, he wrote i was driving a WRX, the car is a RS, i remember reading somewhere that if a cop makes a mistake like this on the notice that it must be discarded....???????

any help or info would be GREATLY appreciated...

thanks

dan

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Dont quote me on this, but true to the phucked up system, its legal to have fog lights on in Vic, but not in NSW......

I recall, a friend who used to live right on the border, and had to drive from Vic to NSW for work........ had his fog lights on in Vic, which was fine....... as soon as he crossed into NSW borders...... he got done.

It's phucked I know

It might look good to you, but you can't see it from in your car. And I daresay the majority of other road users think it looks like a complete toss job. So again I have to ask, why do it?

i told u already i think it looks good, thats all that really matters, and dont reply with some bs about being one of those people who are not affected by advertising and peers influences and will not conform to idealistic impressions and images etc etc,

you must drive a skyline right??

why?

cos u need a car to get you from A to B , yeh right, pull the other one, hahahaha

you drive your skyline because u think it looks good, it goes hard and you, due to whatever influences it may be, have come to the realisation that u like the car. hence the reason you bought it.

and even if you dont have a skyline, whatever car you have, you would have bought because u like the looks. your obviously on this site because you like skylines, and i'd say that their looks would have something to do with it!

when u sit inside you cant see what it looks like from the outside CAN you! NO you bloody well can't, but you KNOW what it looks like, and if you turn around and try to tell me that you bought your skyline for some other reason and looks had nothing to do with it your full of it.

there's plenty of other quick cars out there that all look pretty much the same on the inside!

(and even then you buy a car because you like what the inside is like, cos thats where u spend all your time)

so quit your useless, and annoying whoring of my thread and let some people with the information i NEED reply to my posts,.

but thanks all the same for the BUMPS

BUMP

As fog lights are for use in fog where headlights just reflect back at you and make things worse, it makes sense to not use them with headlights and this is reflected in the law in most of the states.

It seems that a lot of people on these forums can't differentiate between fog lights and general purpose driving lights. the two throw quite different beams. As driving lights are supposed to be used with high beam on obviously in built up areas these are illegal too if used with low beam

As for looking cool ......they probably do......to other morons

Yeah I do think Skylines look good. But I think that Skylines with fog lights on when it's not foggy look like complete wank jobs. Well, I would think so if I'd ever seen one, which I haven't. I'm sure they exist though, somewhere. I think most Skyline owners avoid unwarranted fog lights because it makes them look like bogun Falcodore drivers

I didn't buy a Skyline because of what other people thought of it. External appearances (to me) were only part of the reason, whereas using fog lights is ONLY for external appearance, and ONLY visible to other people. If I had the option to put some annoying ****ing yellow lights on the front then I wouldn't take it and neither have any other Skyline owners I've seen.

But yeah anyway, free bump :D

It may look good, but it's blinding to the other people on the road. But anyway...

It's amusing when people get done, and then bitch and whinge and moan about how the cops are noobs and other such names... if ya get done, get over it, learn from it and don't do it again.

As for the whole mis-identified car, it doesn't really matter. They've got your licence details, they've got your rego number. You can only get out of it if they took down your personal details incorrectly (not including address). Do you really think they'll listen to you and go "Oh, shit, yes, you're totally right, that's not your car! You're free to go." without getting the opinion of someone would be able to tell the court that the RS and WRX are submodels of a Subaru Impreza? It's a very, very minor mistake of the officer involved, so, basically, you're nicked. Deal with it.

No. Even if the police officer made a mistake on the ticket, it's generally still valid. I was fined recently and the officer wrote the incorrect fine amount, and was told that I had to pay the full amount regardless of what the officer wrote. I'm appealing it, but as it stands I'm responsible for the full amount.

As for the lights, fog lights on when it's not foggy / during the day = distraction to other drivers = danger to other motorists. Simple.

last night i was just cruising along minding my own business when i heard the all to familiar wooop wooop and flash flash.

cops pulled me over for having fog lights on! how sad!

so i copped a fine for that plus the noob decides to fine me for having a auto licence and driving a manual car

now i'm poor and 2 less points on my licence..

i know its all my fault bla bla, yes i only got the car a day ago and i havent had time to go get my green Ps (which were only available for me 9 days ago)..

My question is... the cop fooked up on the fine, he wrote i was driving a WRX, the car is a RS, i remember reading somewhere that if a cop makes a mistake like this on the notice that it must be discarded....???????

any help or info would be GREATLY appreciated...

thanks

dan

I am hearing this...

I was miding my own business turn up my streo on loud setting and driving like farckin tool when I saw cop car pass so I put my pinger up and shout up yours pig... never catch me mother ****!!! check out my ride is sooo coooll and shit.. you cops are farking hassel phuckers... blah blah blah...

no ****in reason other than weaving in and out of traffic and ignoring the cop and RED traffic light...etc..etc.. blah blah

and find me for driving phucking AUTo licence driving manual car phuck shit... blah blah blah... I sould have manual licence for 1st place but I am so dumm and phucked to move a stick into from 1 to 5th gears so I got auto. COOL man eblah blah blah

and I didnt or cant be phucked to put my P plates on even though I know I should put it on... but hey fark it man... who cares.... farkin cops...blah blah blah...

ok lets stop at that... I am not having a go at you, but I am sure YOU only know how much truth on what you wrote... so YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO next time when you driving with inproper licence and not following road rules....

anyway to answer your question NO

wrong speling

Wrong car

Wrong time and Place -questionable in court

means jack shit as long as Cops have your licence number and REGO number.

sorry mate but Cop got ya.

so Good luck, maybe think next time.:thumbdwn:

ps. I am not haivng a go at you but I am bit peeeved off blaming everything for cops, instead think what you have done wrong to draw cops attention in the 1st place.

my two cents

last night i was just cruising along minding my own business when i heard the all to familiar wooop wooop and flash flash.  

cops pulled me over for having fog lights on! how sad!  

so i copped a fine for that plus the noob decides to fine me for having a auto licence and driving a manual car  

now i'm poor and 2 less points on my licence..  

i know its all my fault bla bla, yes i only got the car a day ago and i havent had time to go get my green Ps (which were only available for me 9 days ago)..  

My question is... the cop fooked up on the fine, he wrote i was driving a WRX, the car is a RS, i remember reading somewhere that if a cop makes a mistake like this on the notice that it must be discarded....???????  

any help or info would be GREATLY appreciated...  

thanks  

dan

OK.

So you were breaking several laws (driving with fog/driving lamps on in a built-up area when there's no adverse weather conditions, and driving a car you're not licensed to drive), and the cop's a noob for booking you?

Welcome to Idiotsville. Population: You.

Now that we've got our opinion of your actions out of the way, let's look at your hopes for getting off the fine.

The cop made a minor mistake with the sub-model of the car you were driving. Sure, you drive an RS Impreza rather than a WRX Impreza - by all means, challenge the fine, take your case to the magistrates court, and watch the magistrate charge you for wasting the court's time, and possibly even charge you with contempt of court. By all means, take a few relatively minor traffic charges, and change them into a criminal charge. Go on, make us proud! Make us laugh!

Yes, that was sarcasm. In all seriousness, don't even bother trying to challenge the fines - you'll end up in more trouble than you're in now. Just cop the fines, learn your lesson, and get on with your life. Consider yourself lucky that you weren't arrested for driving unlicensed (you're not licensed to drive a manual car) and weren't forced to leave your car on the side of the road while you received a nice little ride down to the police station - the "noob" cop was well within his rights to do that to you!

To the poster who thinks that using foglamps in Vic is legal at any time, you're crazy. Just because you didn't get booked in Vic but did in NSW doesn't make your conclusion in any way valid or logical - you were just lucky in Victoria. The national road rules forbid the use of driving or fog lamps in built up areas unless the weather conditions are bad - in other words, misty or heavy rain. There's no way that the Victorian laws, especially given Victoria's generally harsh enforcement of their road rules, would over-ride the national rule in this case with a more relaxed rule.

An ex-girlfriend got booked for driving unlicensed in Victoria, but not in NSW - does that mean that driving unlicensed in NSW is legal? Of course it doesn't...

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