CHP ????

[Steve G]

Honda's with fart cans attached bug the **** out of me. So do Harley bikes with straight pipes. I wish I could cruise right next to them with my straight piped race car and blow their ****ing eardrums out. Tell your son to get rid of the fart can.

[BigJim_610]

Where in my Post

Did I say anything about anyone whinning?
Re read what I wrote. I asked about CHP policy. PERIOD.
And I offered an observation on one particular CHP person in their car.

Maybe he should just fix the exhaust and stop whining?




Obviously there is an issue. You don't see grandma getting jammed up for her stock Camry do you?

I rarely see any officer issue an exhaust ticket. We use the violation for PC to stop and dig for something deeper. Guns, dope, parolee violations.. etc.

I went to the street racing course and will always do a vehicle inspection if the vehicle appears to have been modified. I was amazed all all the wizbang things these folks do to their cars these days. If anything under the hood has been altered, a trip to the Referee may be assigned.

FWIW... only 3 months after going to the course, I nabbed a stolen motor and a VIN plate removed from a tranny.... Good stuff there.

[Fire in the Hole]

Did I say anything about anyone whinning?
Re read what I wrote. I asked about CHP policy. PERIOD.
And I offered an observation on one particular CHP person in their car.

And I answered your question in post #6. That really should have been the end of it, as far as the conditions of the question goes. I understand that your were not interested in discussion of related matters, stories, opinions, etc., so I didn't give any.

[MiguelS]

Is there a CHP policy on stopping Japanese cars?

But of course they do, after WWII.

Exhaust resonator.

Well he wanted a exhaust to be louder and noticed.

He got what he want. Just from the wrong crowd.

+1 on Unit74's comment.

[Fire in the Hole]

As a big car guy this bugs me a lot. I have a LS1 camaro that has a big cam and long tube headers into a 3" exhaust dumped with the bare minimum you could even call a muffler. Loud as hell lopes and idles like thunder. Window tint dark as hell all the way around. Never been pulled over because of it. Now I drove my buddies little integra around for like 2 days and was pulled over 3 times! Full stock exhaust no window tint, stock wheels, stock height. It had a built motor in it that didn't come from that car but no one would know. 1 time while being pulled over he did ask me to pop my hood, I thought **** I'm gonna get busted for my friends car. He looked under asked about it then said, well seems like its stock. These guys hardly ever know anything about cars even when they are looking at a car that could be impounded and is pretty simple knowledge. They say they spend soooo much money on training these guys but then when it comes down to it, what happened to the training? Like what do they tell these people to look for? Shiny stuff? Anything with a "NOS" sticker on it? Esepcially tickles me when they don't know the CA laws on having nitrous in a car. Uhg sorry for the rant just bugs me that were spending so much tax dollars on training all these guys and there still don't know whats going on under the hood of a car!

An interesting post to be sure. But with all due respect, this is the exact kind of post the the OP was attempting to preclude in this thread, by his opening statement. And the OP's follow-up comment, "I asked about CHP policy. PERIOD."

[MILLITIAof1]

Maybe he should just fix the exhaust and stop whining? Obviously there is an issue. You don't see grandma getting jammed up for her stock Camry do you?

I rarely see any officer issue an exhaust ticket. We use the violation for PC to stop and dig for something deeper. Guns, dope, parolee violations.. etc.

I went to the street racing course and will always do a vehicle inspection if the vehicle appears to have been modified. I was amazed all all the wizbang things these folks do to their cars these days. If anything under the hood has been altered, a trip to the Referee may be assigned.

FWIW... only 3 months after going to the course, I nabbed a stolen motor and a VIN plate removed from a tranny.... Good stuff there.

This post really rubs me the wrong way...


and to the OP, if your kid wants his car to be loud just make sure its also faster than a Crown Vic.
My cars are wet dreams for a fix-it ticket cop but after dealing with such BS and paying a ton of money they no longer have the opportunity to pull me over

[Unit74]

This post really rubs me the wrong way...


and to the OP, if your kid wants his car to be loud just make sure its also faster than a Crown Vic.
My cars are wet dreams for a fix-it ticket cop but after dealing with such BS and paying a ton of money they no longer have the opportunity to pull me over

Do you wish to elaborate?

[MILLITIAof1]

Do you wish to elaborate?

I will try to keep this short and sweet to prevent a ban on my account,

I don't like officers who use BS traffic stops to dig/snoop/infringe on privacy.

[Unit74]

I will try to keep this short and sweet to prevent a ban on my account,

I don't like officers who use BS traffic stops to dig/snoop/infringe on privacy.

It's not BS.... it's called probable cause.

[Ron-Solo]

If it's a violation, it's not BS.

FYI, most after market products are intended for off-highway or show use, not for use on the highway, whch is why it is not illegal to sell or buy them, just illegal to operate a car on the highway with them.

If you want your car to sound like a lawnmower on crack, expect to get pulled over and possibly cited.

[Lancear15]

preludes are slow even when modified. Drop the resonator it isn't fooling anyone but the cops.

[BillCA]

This post really rubs me the wrong way...


and to the OP, if your kid wants his car to be loud just make sure its also faster than a Crown Vic.

They have yet to invent the car that can outrun Motorola.
Not even the Bugatti Veyron.

I don't like officers who use BS traffic stops to dig/snoop/infringe on privacy.

If you have defective equipment -- i.e. a burned out license plate light -- that's not a "BS" stop. That's a legitimate stop. It might be a chicken**** stop, but it's still legitimate.

A "BS" traffic stop is stopping you for something you didn't do or that you did, but was legal and the cop tries to bluff it through just to get a look inside the car and ID the occupants.

[BigJim_610]

Why not Harleys then??

If you want your car to sound like a lawnmower on crack, expect to get pulled over and possibly cited.[/QUOTE]

In my OP I mentioned a large number of motorcycles near my home that are non stock loud and a CHP was seen "guarding" them. Why don't the CHP inspect these bikes for probable cause, loud exhaust.

In my non scientific opinion it is because the owners of the bikes at this particular function were county supervisors, doctors, lawyers and veterans etc.

If it's a violation, it's not BS.

FYI, most after market products are intended for off-highway or show use, not for use on the highway, whch is why it is not illegal to sell or buy them, just illegal to operate a car on the highway with them.

If you want your car to sound like a lawnmower on crack, expect to get pulled over and possibly cited.

[Fire in the Hole]

If you want your car to sound like a lawnmower on crack, expect to get pulled over and possibly cited.

In my OP I mentioned a large number of motorcycles near my home that are non stock loud and a CHP was seen "guarding" them. Why don't the CHP inspect these bikes for probable cause, loud exhaust.In my non scientific opinion it is because the owners of the bikes at this particular function were county supervisors, doctors, lawyers and veterans etc.[/QUOTE]


Since none of us were there, we don't know. I don't see in you information what city or county you live in. For a specific answer to you question you wil need to call the Public Affairs Officer at the CHP Office where this occurred. Provide them with the date, time, and location, of said event. That's the only way you will find out for certain.

[DVSmith]

They have yet to invent the car that can outrun Motorola.
Not even the Bugatti Veyron.


If you have defective equipment -- i.e. a burned out license plate light -- that's not a "BS" stop. That's a legitimate stop. It might be a chicken**** stop, but it's still legitimate.

A "BS" traffic stop is stopping you for something you didn't do or that you did, but was legal and the cop tries to bluff it through just to get a look inside the car and ID the occupants.

I love the fact that someone has defined the difference between bull **** (BS) and chicken **** (CS).

My son was pulled over for expired registration. It is my car and it turns out the officer was right, by 3 days, in the middle of the month. The only way he could known that is to run the license prior to pulling my son over. Why would he even bother? does he do that for every car he pulls up behind? Maybe it was the 18 year old driving a 02 bone stock red Honda Accord? It is pretty weird, that is all I have to say.