haha my bad dude. i totally forgot about channel island. idk anyone that goes there. is that even a socal school?

 

It's alright. No one has ever heard of the school. haha It's in Camarillo, so technically it's in SoCal.

I'm trying to stay legit, so they can't possibly give me a ticket for anything on my car, but I'm still worried about the police hassling me.

 

in norcal theres pretty crazy tricked out cars. isnt it pretty bad there too?

 

California isn't that bad seriously haha in all the times I've been pulled over I was only given one fix-it ticket for "carbon fiber" altezzas on my integra (which looking back on it now, I deserved it for even having those haha) and when I put the stock ones back on and took the car to police station to pay my ticket, the cop there was even like "What?! YOu got a a fix it for THAT?!?!? hahaha Officer Billy must have just been having a bad day, I wouldn't have pulled you over for that haha"


and I've never been asked to pop open the hood, in temple city, san gabriel, rosemead, pasadena and monrovia. and my integra has the carbon fiber, its about 4-5 inches off the ground, bright gold volks, exhaust, far from stock. I think if you just don't drive like a butt clown, you won't get asked to pop open the hood.

 

HAHAHA IN MY OLD CAR I GOT PULLED OVER 3 TIMES IN HAMPTON BAY 2 TIMES FOR LIMO TINT AND ONCE FOR MY EXHAUST BEING OVER 12O DB LOL THEY HAD TO GET THE LITTLE TESTER OUT AND EVERYTHING

 

i got pulled for amplified sound. wtf. it wasnt even that loud when i tested it myself in an open lot (cant be heard 50ft). he caught me for my sound system but he didnt catch the girl for making an illegal uturn and causing traffic in the same garage. messed up.

 

You can do what ever the hell you want to your car. It just has to pass emmisions. Greddy has a turbo kit that is cali legal for civics. idk if they have it for scion

 

I hate to bust your grapes, but if you walked into an attorney's office with that crap, he'd charge you $75 for the laughing fit while you were wasting his time. These laws have been in effect since the late 60s, early 70's, and for the record, installing a turbo kit on a tC is a federal crime since you have to remove the original catalytic converter. This cat-and-mouse game has been played for a long time, and those that don't know the rules of the game are the suckers that get to pay for new Highway Patrol cruisers. People often forget that you have a right to own a car, but you DO NOT have a right to drive it on public roads; every state, including Texas, has laws we disagree with, but that's part of life... get over it.

That being said, many, many people in California modify their cars and get away with it, after all, where do you think most car performance parts come from? The key is NOT to draw attention to yourself with bad driving or obnoxious "rice" mods, and in this case, all the OP needed to do was powder coat or paint his intercooler black and the cop probably wouldn't have had him pop his hood.

For ALL my Cali people: the laws are posted for you to read, don't say you weren't warned --> https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=165444

Drive safely and keep your mods to yourself, don't make a cop's job easy.

 

that sucks tony sorry to hear that

 

If you got sick of CALI being all over your butt.. MOVE TO UTAH!

i know utah suck in some way but look at the bright side.. the cops here are mostly mormon and they are too nice. they believe in the religion as "forgiven" and will let you get off it easy.

i got 20% tint on my window and i passed by many cops here and none of them pulled me over (knocked on the desk)

but there is one thing i hate about utah roads.. too many bump and dips. if you slabbed some bodykit and lowered it,,, you are asking to have it peeled off.

 

lol...utah!

 

Here's the question though. It's a fix-it ticket, right? RIGHT!

Is your ticket marked correctable or non-correctable?

I got a fix-it ticket for no front plate on my school campus & had to pay $30 but never had to have a ref check it because it was marked non-correctable.

However, in October, on my way to SEMA I got pulled over for no front plate & blue turn signals & now I have to have a ref check it off & pay the $10 fee because it was marked correctable.

Oh & might I add....he could've popped me for a supercharger (even though it's TRD, & 50 state legal, they WILL find a reason to bust you for it regardless), modified exhaust (i got a warning but no official ticket for it), front mount intercooler, headers, & everything, but he didn't. I hear it's illegal to modify the actual body of the car, too, which I'm widebody but I don't know if that's true or not.

 

I guess it's my turn to burst your bubble...

First, defense lawyers get paid to get you off for an offense. Yeah, there are speed laws too, but none of the 9 tickets I've gotten since I've been home are on my record and I've only paid a couple of the fines for "deferred adjudication.' Laugh me out of their office? Yeah right.

Federal crime? Please. It's my car and if I want a turbo, I'll put one on. I, however, prefer a supercharger myself because I'm not looking to go to the track, just have a lil extra muscle. And since a super charger just "bolts on" most of the time, then I don't have to remove a thing. Wanna tell me about that federal crime again?

In response to this, my gut reaction is to say 'lick my nut' since you seem to want to hit me with attitude from who knows where. I don't care about any cat and mouse game, no do I fund any cruisers, that's what my lawyers are for (yes, here I have more than one, for different counties and courts). I have a right to own my car, and I have a right to modify it how I see fit, so long as I pass emissions tests.

And for this part, I'd say being told to pop the hood constitutes an illegal search, another thing defense lawyers love. In my case, aside from a spoiler, (a factory one at that) I've never really modded my exterior so they'd have zero reason to ask me to pop anything on my car.

I don't care how long these lame laws are, they seem to be clearly driven to support car dealers since the dealer can get away with turning a 4-banger into a riced out muscle car but the average citizen can't. That's lame. And no one needs to "get over it" because in this country, laws are subject to change with enough pressure from the people.

 

damn Bryan you made this guys day. sure knightman do whatever you want with your car and drive it the way you want, but when it comes to getting caught with a turbo your guilty no matter what cause there not carb legal on our cars so at that point your breaking the law and can't go ahead and say i'm gonna get my lawyer and fight it off. when you look at the parts they say "for off-road use only" does that mean you should be using it in public highways..nope but everyone decides to and as long as you don't make a fool out of yourself you should be fine. btw there is no reason why to act immature by putting 'lick my nut' as you posted. it saids your 29, well start acting more mature cause your actiing like a damn middle school kid.

 

I responded to his unwarranted attitude with attitude of my own. Period.

And I've said I don't plan on getting a turbo, if anything it'd be a supercharger. But since it doesn't come stock, technically they're saying it's illegal, which is retarded. If a stock Mustang can have a super, so can my tC.

 

if you saved your old non-correctable ticket you should take it and ask them about it, but your probably still gonna have to pay but how are you gonna mount your plates with the widebody?

 

well i've never seen him ticked off or giving people an attitude but he is correct about the parts that aren't carb approved but yeah go ahead and supercharge you tC, btw the superchargers on the cobras just go function the sane as the tC, i know i work for ford, yes you can hear the supercharger when you turn the car on cause it's belt driven but when you first turn on the car it feels like a like a regular GT unless you turn the car on and off 20 times but then your mess up the starter, so you basically have to drive 5 miles without a stop for it to fully function and have the full 500HP. sorry for the tread jack or talk about the mustang but alot of people go to the dealer and expect to drive a cobra with it's 500 HP off the dealer. no i'm not a salesman if you ask but i've seen several of cars returned with people asking that question on why they can't smoke a GT straight off the line.

 

Ask them about what? I'm happy I didn't have to get it checked off & that I just had to pay the extra $20. Less of a hassle. Now I have to take a day off work, set an appointment with a check station (I refuse to go to a chp station for fear of getting popped for everything else) & get all the stuff checked off & go to a courhouse to pay my dues, rather than just mail a check for $30 & I'm done.

As for mounting a plate with a widebody...why would it be any different than mounting it on a front bumper? I take a couple screws, lock washers & a drill, badabing badaboom, I have a front plate. However, I didn't take that route now. I put my front plate on my car (in a way so that I didn't have to drill holes in the actual visible part of the bumper) because my car is flashy as hell & I don't wanna be hassled by cops the few times I decide to drive it a year (I've driven it 4 times in the past 2 & a half months). At this point, exterior-wise I don't think I have any exterior mods that are against the law. Which gives cops no reason to pull me over.....with the exception that my car's pink.

I truly think I was pulled over just so the cop can check out my car. He said "license and registration, by the way, what the hell is this?". No joke! I had been driving around before with no front plate & blue turn signals for a good 8 months or so & never had an issue with cops (with the exception of when I got my no front plate ticket on campus at school while in class, my school has their own sheriff station - how convenient, right?). Yet, the first time I drove the car when I got it back from the shop, I got popped.

 

^ You actually drive that thing -- Mad Props.

I think when I move back to San Diego Im gonna keep my registration in AR. Hopefully that will keep me from having to get it smogged.

 

Well, for whatever reason, I'd say you've seen it now. Can't imagine why, personally. I've never said two words to him before. In fact, until his post in this thread, I've never even seen him before.

As for the GT/Cobra discussion......that's moot. I said Shelby GT500. And it can, in fact, smoke a regular Mustang GT. It's base torque is 475. But that's a discussion for another thread on another site, I'd imagine.