Loud pipes beware - photo enforcement now targeting noise violators
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Originally Posted by Frankie
What good would TR be without an exhaust discrimination thread once a week?
I agree that system seems lacking any real way to tell who's doing what, unless they are the only car on camera. I can see it being used to make BS charges, etc.
Here's hoping they keep them out of FL altogether.
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Originally Posted by Troux
Robofunc, you're probably not gonna get a ticket anytime soon. If you're seen at Gandy on Saturday night with the same setup, then you might be getting a ticket, or if you just had a big bodacious wing, then you might get a ticket.
Originally Posted by Troux
Not too long ago someone with an FC posted about being pulled over for exhaust, then the cop talked to him and said he's obviously not one of "those" types of import drivers, or something to that effect, and didn't ticket him.
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Originally Posted by Frankie
What good would TR be without an exhaust discrimination thread once a week?
Now, I don't see how this system could work. Unless I'm on the only car passing the intersection at any specific time, how is a video of noise with my car in it going to prove that I was the one making the noise? My Cadillac has 1400 watts in the trunk, but if I'm at a light with 15 other cars, how do they prove that it was my car bumping the bass? Same goes for my Camaro. How are they going to prove, via video in traffic, that they heard my mufflers vs. someone else's? Sounds like a system with too many holes.
Now, I don't see how this system could work. Unless I'm on the only car passing the intersection at any specific time, how is a video of noise with my car in it going to prove that I was the one making the noise? My Cadillac has 1400 watts in the trunk, but if I'm at a light with 15 other cars, how do they prove that it was my car bumping the bass? Same goes for my Camaro. How are they going to prove, via video in traffic, that they heard my mufflers vs. someone else's? Sounds like a system with too many holes.
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Originally Posted by robofunc
It pisses people off when they are singled out for no good reason. Not to mention it's just plain wrong.
If you have an aftermarket exhaust, that is good enough reason to pull you over.
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Originally Posted by Frankie
What good would TR be without an exhaust discrimination thread once a week?
Now, I don't see how this system could work. Unless I'm on the only car passing the intersection at any specific time, how is a video of noise with my car in it going to prove that I was the one making the noise? My Cadillac has 1400 watts in the trunk, but if I'm at a light with 15 other cars, how do they prove that it was my car bumping the bass? Same goes for my Camaro. How are they going to prove, via video in traffic, that they heard my mufflers vs. someone else's? Sounds like a system with too many holes.
Now, I don't see how this system could work. Unless I'm on the only car passing the intersection at any specific time, how is a video of noise with my car in it going to prove that I was the one making the noise? My Cadillac has 1400 watts in the trunk, but if I'm at a light with 15 other cars, how do they prove that it was my car bumping the bass? Same goes for my Camaro. How are they going to prove, via video in traffic, that they heard my mufflers vs. someone else's? Sounds like a system with too many holes.
There are always people flying at 80 down the road adn its a 45 road.
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Originally Posted by robofunc
I remember that. I guess our local laws don't make as much sense as I assumed they did — why not have a decibel level law instead of an aftermarket law? If I have a rusted-out stock exhaust making an awful racket, that'd be legal? Seems like our laws are meant for targeting certain folks instead of setting an acceptable standard across the board...
when i had my old camaro i used to get cops called on my for it just ideling in my parking lot.
but they have to be 25 feet behind the car when they do the test. my car was around a 120,130 or so.
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Originally Posted by ghost 727
they do have a db law car cant be over like 65 or 70 db's
when i had my old camaro i used to get cops called on my for it just ideling in my parking lot.
but they have to be 25 feet behind the car when they do the test. my car was around a 120,130 or so.
when i had my old camaro i used to get cops called on my for it just ideling in my parking lot.
but they have to be 25 feet behind the car when they do the test. my car was around a 120,130 or so.
So what's the point of the aftermarket law? We don't have emissions tests anymore, so that line doesn't work. If they want, people should be allowed to run chainlink fence posts as long as it doesn't stick out too far, make too much noise or pose a safety hazard.
It's a law aimed squarely at specific people, and that is illegal. Not the first time it's happened, but illegal, nonetheless.
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This was an FYI thread so people would know what they have to watch out for in the future. Who knows if the Tampa area will get any of these, but other areas might so watch you’re self when traveling.
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