Auto Manual Licensing

[Sarumatix]

PS it isn't L's you need to display from memory, it's driver under instruction sign or something along those lines.

[Birds]

I drive a yellow R34 too, and my average is none in the 2 years of owning it.

It just depends on where and when you drive and most importantly, how you drive it. OR as some will say, I've been lucky.

Yeah. No one who lives in or travels through Knox regularly will say it's how you drive that determines whether you get pulled over. Where you live has a huge factor in it!

[PENGUYEN]

I say charles is both lucky and smart

[MacGillaZ]

PS it isn't L's you need to display from memory, it's driver under instruction sign or something along those lines.

You are correct, if on Auto Ps and driving a manual car with a Licenced driver/instructor, you need to be displaying "Driver under Instruction Plates". Can be fined for showing either Ls or Ps as both are technically incorrect, go figure! Print out on a colour printer a little sign and stick it up on the window, people will treat you somewhere between a Learner and Full Driver from my experience of being one and instructing peeps over the years.

At one stage we had the impounded car pulled over, a marked TMU car with it's lights on with another car pulled over behind it and still got another 2 cars doing 20-25 over speed on laser in same stretch of road. 4 cars pulled over at once..multi tasking at it's best.

Graeme, sounds like FTG Rd under the freeway, is always funny watching cars coming down the hill and slamming on the brakes once they see the car on the median strip, by then damage has already been done

[Serg]

^^ That is true, i called up once vic roads and they said get a full licensed person with you when you drive a manual car if you have your "auto" P's and get a sign saying "Driver under instruction"...

Then i asked, "So can i drive my brothers SS which is manual with the plates" he didn't know the answer, and told me he was gonna call me back... No answer yet!

[xALmoN]

Lol, for those who said as long as you're driving properly, you wont get pulled over. I CALL BULLSHIT.

I got an EPA noise test in the mail, i didn't even get pulled over. That was in my supra, which was tested to be 85dB and 88 on backing off.

Then.

In my gtr, i got pulled over :

For failing to give way while turning right. (my fault)

Driving home from work. (Booze bus)

Random check on springvale road, for no reason. While going to get groceries.

Random check on blackburn road, on my way home from fishing.

Random check at some country town on my way to SA, copped a noise EPA because a front mount comes stock on a gtr, he couldn't get me for anything else.

twice somewhere in march in the city, within 30mins of each other. one cop car even made a u-turn just to pull me over and ask me where i was going.

2 times on the great ocean road, for random checks. Once at anglesea, once at apollo bay.

And really. that's probably about 10 times now. I enjoy driving at night, its peaceful and you don't really need to stop for anything other than the lights, but that's when the popo are out and about, and if they have nothing better to do, they WILL pull you over if you're driving a skyline.

proudly a cool story bro post.

[bob182]

In 6 months of skyline driving, I've been pulled over three times. Once for driving like a dickhead, once for no reason at all and once for driving the wrong way in a 1-way street. Still no fines for any of them but I have nothing unroadworthy on my car. It's possibly too loud and one cop said I can expect a fine in the mail for intentionally losing traction or something but nothing ever came from it.

You're definitely more likely to get pulled over in a skyline, but assuming you're not a flamin mongrel to the cop, you're not going to be treated unfairly.

But I guess it depends who you get pulled over by

[nicrowkz]

Hmmm I haven't been pulled over YET in the skyline, had quite a few cop cars go past me and not even give me a 2nd glance... I've had Highway Patrol come the opposite direction and do a u-turn to come back after me and cruised beside me for a bit but did nothing.

And was only pulled over once in 2 years in the 300 to make sure it wasn't a TT because I was still on my p's and then had the copper talk to me about imports for about 5 mins and how he loves them and had a skyline and now has WRX

[BrOwnY GT]

Ive never been pulled over either in my skyline had two cops eye my car off at the petrol station once about it... i got pulled over nearly every 3 or so days back on my p's though in my n13 pulsar with a sr20 and a 5inch cannon lol.... that was cop bait...

Edited June 3, 2011 by nismo07

[perzn_34]

lot of pussies here... if you dont live in a hardcore area and drive normally u wont get pulled over, my mate had a manual prelude for the whole 3 years of his auto p's and nothing happened. i drove a turbo 34 with my p plates and never got pulled over randomly.

[xALmoN]

luck plays a factor i guess.

[BrOwnY GT]

luck plays a factor i guess.

^^

[S4LVA]

I had my gtst for just over a year now. Drive through Frankston/Dandenong almost everyday and never been pulled over

[Peter89]

Hi guys I'm currently on my P2s with no record of any fines, accidents or anything, I have just bought a manual skyline, but only have me auto license (have my manuals booked early next month), if I drive around in the manual non-turbo factory standard non-eye catching skyline, will I get pulled over and get license inspected, lose my license and get a massive fine for driving without a manual license? Will they ban me from driving forever and cancel my manuals test next month too? And will they confiscate my car since I'm unlicensed to drive a manual on the spot?

Reason is, I'm really keen to drive my new car that I bought as it is the first one for me but I can't wait for me to pass the manuals test next month, what do you guys reckon?

Put up some green Ps and drive it like no tomorrow?

Be good and put up some Ls and only drive it with licensed drivers?

$100 no points. that is all.

I drove my silvia around for a month on my automatic p's until i got my manual license.

[Grey]

i take back what i had just said, got pulled over RANDOMLY by an unmarked cop car driving next to the princess highway caulfield he didn't defect me cause my car was stock

laters