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Ok all, those of you who know me will know I am not a crazed 18yr old P plater with a bad attitude or bad driving record.... so this is the story from last night!

picked up my newly finished pride and joy from BEL (those guys are just amazing!!!! more to follow about there excellent work!...) and was putt putting home towards the airport, and saw a police car in the RH lane doing 40kmh.... I new I wasnt speeding, or doing anything foolish, so I thought "I can drive past this guy ( 3 lane road ) and there will not be a problem because I am well below the speed limit... ( I was doing 55 )

anyhow.... was then followed for about 3 km, safe in the knowledge that my car is quiet and I am being a good 31yr old tax paying citizen.....

THEN....

lights go on, pull over....

2 police officers, (both nice guys it turns out) ask me if I know that my car is defectable... your exhaust is too low...." of course not officer, I just picked it up from being serviced " etc etc, as always, being polite, as it is the best way to be with anyone, not just police :(

basically from there they went over the car, and got me on some minor things, while we chatted about the car (they loved it....) and my job...

they could have done me for a massive amount of things, but got me for basically minor things, as we all stood there 5 or 6 holden noise makers went past yelling abuse at the police.... :S go figure!

this is the list of 4 they got me for :-

-exhaust too low 60mm (yes it is too low, but the only person to get hurt by it would be my wallet if i was silly enough to smash it on something....)

-possiblly too loud, they couldnt tell but admitted it sounded great, and was not loud...

-catch can, they said they couldnt tell if it was legal or not

-filters exposed (said box them or get stock again)

so thats it!!!

now my question to you all is, can anyone help me out with an engineer at the right price to get the peice of paper I need to stop this is the future...

I have 28 days to fix these things, and would like to do it as $$$$$ (cheaply) as possible...

thanks for your input and please dont abuse the police! as these guys said "we cant tell if your a dick just driving along....sorry"

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It only costs about $500 to get your whole car engineered, so my advice would be to get an emissions test done first and tuck your exhaust up so that its >100mm. Then just take it to any engineer. There you will get a drive by induction test done (for your pod filters), a stationary noise test for your exhaust and the engineer should pass everything else, assuming that the emissions test is OK.

-possiblly too loud, they couldnt tell but admitted it sounded great, and was not loud...

-catch can, they said they couldnt tell if it was legal or not

So they weren't sure but they defected you for it anyway? That's like saying "look I think you were doing 80 in a 60 zone but because I was driving in the opposite direction I really don't have any idea but hey look heres a speeding fine just for the trouble".

what can you do? argue and it will just make things worse.... they were overall good guys, just doing there job.... just the job now is not stoping cars that are poor quality or dangerous, just TV styled AcA publicity for the Gov....

Hey you weren't GTR-xxx or (R32-xxx, can't remember now) getting defected on parramatta road on friday night were you?

I saw the bonnet open and the cops looking underneath the car.

Sorry to hear about the defect, but I still don't know how a car being too low can be defected, as you mention the worse it can do it just damage your own car. actually a lower can can be safer for pedesterians as the point of contact would be lower and there for the body would roll onto the bonnet easier.

*edit* plates removed at owners request

I have an engineers cert and it doesn't do squat because the RTA defect pits "don't have time to go through the entire certificate"... to be honest i didn't have time at midnight to go and wait while they f*@k round with no idea what they're doing...

i got a blue slip done at M&C Zec (or something like that) at castle hill... twin pods 3" zorst yadda yadda... all good :) look em up in the phone book :P

yes was me.... just delete my number plate in your post thanks mate.....

all fixed, problem solvered.....

thanks all and sundry for pointing me in the right direction to getting the car engineered and back on the road :):)

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