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wikedgolf
10-23-2007, 11:10 PM
So i pulled off the freeway by my house to get gas. No cop around. I pulled in to the gas station. As i was about to open the door a CHP rolled up behind me. Once again, my car (this time the mini) was profiled as a race car. He said he heard my car pop which is a sound of modifying. I explained to the cop that 05-06 MINI cooper S are programed from the factory to pop. Its an ECU program setting. He didn't buy that and then proceeded to tell me to pop my hood. WHAT THE HELL.. i just needed gas.

Thankfully i have a carb sticker on the K&N. Then he asked if i raced!!! I was like no, this is my daily driver. Its less that 19 months ond and has over 60k on it. I work in LA. Then he gives me that "ouch" look. At that point he said he was just going to write me a fix it for the exhaust. grrrr... He over looked that tail lights and the tint on my car!!

what crap... little does he know I work for MT and have access to law books and what I can and cant do to a car. you can exchange your exhaust from the cat-back. Stock cars do it all the time.. lol

OO well..
anitx
10-23-2007, 11:17 PM
Congrats! :p
wikedgolf
10-23-2007, 11:21 PM
it only took 19 months and 60k miles between home, AZ, and LA to get it.

gess...
wikedgolf
10-23-2007, 11:44 PM
oo and BTW..

If you know the law then you should know: That because the officer did not red light you before you entered private property and that you were on PRIVATE property, then the offense was written on the private property. CHP does do have jurisdiction only a Sheriff or if the owner of the property complained and then it would have been city cops not CHP.

FU!!
huitzi
10-23-2007, 11:52 PM
60k!!!??? WOW
mario
10-23-2007, 11:59 PM
oo and BTW..



FU!!


not necessarily, btw. . .you can still get a ticket on private property given certain circumstances. . . to say that CHP has "no jurisdiction" is not at all correct.

the CA vehicle code is available on the dmv website and it outlines what you can and cannot do to your car. . . it's free and accessible to all.

but, the long and the short of it is, you cannot modify: lighting, tint beyond the b-pillars, mirror tints, seatbelts, intake (or ANYTHING emissions related...ie exhaust, cats, exhaust manifolds,etc), amplified sound (rule is: 50 feet from car is too loud), etc.
wikedgolf
10-24-2007, 12:02 AM
not necessarily, btw. . .you can still get a ticket on private property given certain circumstances. . . to say that CHP has "no jurisdiction" is not at all correct.

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yes, and those circumstances generally have to come from property management