Not maintaining your exhuast properly lol

A little story for you all. I was nearly out of fuel today so was taking it REALLY easy. I pulled off the dual carriageway past a cop who had pulled someone for speeding on the roundabout. I pulled into the petrol station to fill up and the cop followed me in. He drove through the station and out and pulled over on the side of the road. I filled up, paid and couldnt stop smiling when i went past cause i knew he was going to pull out behind me lol.

What a suprise, he did. I started laughing, probably not the best thing to do.

Lights came on and i pulled over. I got out the car and still couldnt stop laughing. Apologised, saying that i found it so funny cause it was so obvious they were gunna pull me.

Anyway they did all the check and i asked what i had done wrong, they said the exhaust was FAR too loud and illegal. They had noticed me cause as i drove past their car had shaken

I then had 3 options:

1. Court

2. Fix it and prove it with MOT stamp

3. £30 fine

He then filled out no. 2 form and said he had chosen that for me.

I wasnt having that. I said no thanks i would much prefer no. 3

He seemed a little miffed but said ok and that he would have chosen that aswell.

He said he wouldnt pull me again for it as i said it was only loud cause i needed to get something fixed on the car.

He also said if anyone else pulled me to show the slip and they may let me off.

Both cops were really nice, showed me their laser gun and how it worked etc....oh and the driver LOVED the car lol.

P.S for those of you that have heard my car, its much noisier now its in TTC mode, i must sort that switch so i can go to sequential next time i go past a police car!

haha thats interesting, hopefully my decatted BL wont get as much attention as your, im def swtiching my ETTC back to seq mode.

they said the exhaust was FAR too loud and illegal.

Never heard your exhaust but how did they know it was illegal, did they take a noise reading or something?

Lol funny story, I had my first complaint the other with mine, a neighbour from around the corner complained and it was only on tick over!

Nope they just said. I think its kinda obvious cause is shakes things even at low revs

Ahhh, the "look my ears are bleeding" test, it never fails

Should of taken it to the MOT station as there is no test in the MOT test to gauge the loudness of an exhaust, they might of charged you about £5 to stamp the form, but that is it. £30!?!? I would of taken it to court rather than pay that, they would of dropped it due to no accurate readings, in no readings at all.....

Me when i drive down my cal de sac late at night always in tick over mode as it nearly sets off all alarmed cars but in my opion sup's need to be loud & noticed as there one of the best loooking cars around that's my choice

I drive as quite as a I can around our estate, not had any complaints yet! They're unbelievably loud in TTC!

Nothing better to do! you should have shown them how loud it goes

I am sure this isn't correct. If it was unroadworthy then yes but the fact is he shouldn't have let you drive away. IIRC there is a restriction on noise level for new cars but the minute they leave the factory no restrictions are in place. The only way you can be done is noise abatement act with complaints from public.

There is something in the MOT about the car not being unreasonably loud compared to other cars - my friendly local Toyota garage's tester failed me on it!

In TTC it will always be louder, as the first turbo is not inline to absorb some of the exh energy (it acts as a silencer)

Thats a complete joke. :thumbdown

So you pass them on a dual carriageway, they follow you when you pull in to a PETROL STATION (eg nice and safe location), and rather than just approach you there, they wait for you to pull back out onto the dual carriageway and pull you over on the side of the road in a place where you are far less safe from other cars?

This is an utter fcuking joke and disgrace.

sounds like i could have blagged my way out. However for £30 i dont want them think....ill get the little FCUK. better to be nice and then when they see me around less chance of getting pulled.

Nope they were already off the DC and then pulled me on the slip road! Bless em

Thats still VERY bad practise, they should pull you over in a safe location. Hows that safer than a petrol station. Sound like idiots.

Thats still VERY bad practise, they should pull you over in a safe location. Hows that safer than a petrol station. Sound like idiots.

they sound like they were ok cops to me! could have been total wankers and took the car off you, i set off car alarms all the time..tis great fun really