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Old 31-08-2013, 08:40 AM   #31
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sounds like a load of sheet to me, don't worry about anything and remember without evidence there is nothing anyone can do but if you admit to anything your gone so if it wasn't you be very carefull what you say.
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Old 31-08-2013, 10:10 AM   #32
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Everything you've said so far is hearsay. You don't know why the police are there, just what your friend has told you. You're assuming a hell of a lot. You said you went and spoke to the police, what did they say? What did you say to them?

If you haven't done anything wrong, Surely the easiest thing is to just tell the police the situation, let them look over your car if they want, and get on with life?

Just out of interest, are they sitting in the street in a marked car? Are they highway patrol?
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"Now what do I do about my issue? do I confront the couple of people that are ringing the police over a loud car or do I let it go and not drive the car for a while? being on the hoon list for sure now I will be harassed for sure if I want to go for a drive and enjoy my car like we should be able to do in a free country"[quote]

Go & have a chat with your local Traffic Ops staff sergeant, let him/her know the problem. They will appreciate your assistance & help you out where they can.

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Loud exhaust pfffft

Start the lawn mower up every morning for the next month at the earliest or latest permitted time and let it run for an hour or 2.

Show them what loud is lol

Unfortunately the public presume cars with loud exhausts to be all hoons as the media & the government have brain washed them.

Although these same ppl are the ones that speed past me in school zones and everywhere else
I think this has swerved off the issue at hand. This situation is someone else with a black ute has been hooning and dobbed in, the OP also has a black ute, that happens to have a loud exhaust and thus could attract police attention when the time comes. No ones dobbed the OP in for noise, him going and making noise just because the police are looking for a hoon that has a ute the same colour as his is retarded and indicative of our "bugger everyone else, Im the only one that matters" society.
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I think you should drive a car that meets emission standards and stop driving like a prat.
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I think you should drive a car that meets emission standards and stop driving like a prat.
I think you should be less of a killjoy.
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I think you should drive a car that meets emission standards and stop driving like a prat.
It wouldn't be far off to say that any car that has rolled off the production line, by 100,000km no way would it meet its own emissions standards.
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Old 31-08-2013, 01:22 PM   #38
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Loud exhaust pfffft

Start the lawn mower up every morning for the next month at the earliest or latest permitted time and let it run for an hour or 2.

Show them what loud is lol

Unfortunately the public presume cars with loud exhausts to be all hoons as the media & the government have brain washed them.

Although these same ppl are the ones that speed past me in school zones and everywhere else
I think that is a good idea, that and leaving it under the house sleeping for a while.
The thing I am a little worried about is that there doesn't even need to be proof with hooning now, if the police show up and say we are taking your car off of you for hooning offenses they can just do that now without proof or recourse
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It wouldn't be far off to say that any car that has rolled off the production line, by 100,000km no way would it meet its own emissions standards.

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which emission standards mate? how is that a good reply, if you are driving like a tool in a prius you are still a tool, BUT you are a tool in a car that meets emission standards aren't you?

I figured I would get burnt a bit with this subject but it goes with the territory of asking advise from like minded people on a forum but seriously wtf is with that statement? does that mean that if I have an XY with 700hp I can drive however I want because there were no emissions laws in 1971?
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Two points:

  • The OP isn't doing anything wrong, so he has nothing to worry about, just an average gear head with a nice car.

  • Even the OP admits that there is a fair bit of stupidity on his road, a road that by the sounds of it is a road with high traffic flow through a residential area, it's not really no surprise that the police would put a unit or two about...hey they could just stick a speed camera there right, but that would be revenue razing, and not a proper police presence.


So really, he has nothing to worry about. Its about how you drive and act, my old EL slipped under the radar, RBT's and defect blitzes...except for one time when a got a bit excited and gave it a boost...in front of an off-duty Highway patrol officer who said if he was in his car I would have been pinged...

But I got no fines, no points, no defects.
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Old 31-08-2013, 02:33 PM   #42
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Buy yourself a cheap white van with dark windows and park it near your nearest school that should get the cops out of your street for a while and give you time to escape

Seriously though as others have said, make sure your car is road legal and just drive it as you normally would, if you've done nothing wrong then what do you have to fear

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Old 31-08-2013, 03:44 PM   #43
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Get it to regulation or that it isn't too loud, drive well in your area and they won't/can’t touch you? I live in a “upperclass” area and you should see the looks I get just for driving down the street in a 6t (can’t wait for the sc8). Or tell your neighbour to move in a nice way, sounds suspect all in all and they don’t like you much.
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I got reported years ago for starting a 202 powered WB Holden with a 2.25 inch exhaust at 4am!! wasn't hooning or anything. just driving to work. neighbours didn't like me. so I guess any excuse to complain. car was legal and police found nothing wrong with it. just drive normally. if it is too loud or your worried. make the exhaust a little less loud. you'll be ok
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Ah the old 'go catch real criminals' catch cry. FYI, are many areas of Police who, shock horror, police certain things due to extra training and skill sets. Traffic branches police traffic matters (accidents, traffic complaints, expiations and anything else that involves roads and wheels), general duties are generally responding to taskings (break ins, assaults, disturbances), detectives deal with major matters, sex crimes deal with sexually based offences... The list goes on.

As for the 'I had the name of the person who stole my car' - how were you able to PROVE this beyond a reasonable doubt? Did you SEE them take the car? SAW them in the car? The way the justice system works, is that Police must prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt. If they can't, a successful prosecution won't happen. It's not the Police being lazy, it's how the courts, magistrates and lawyers operate.
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yep quiet the exhaust and take the space savers off,
and she'll be right.
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Noise is an emission you cretin. Noise is the number one aggravator for modified cars and bikes. If you want to draw less attention, put some mufflers on. But no, you think it sounds awesome. I bet your neighbors don't.
depends how "loud" his exhaust is. if it doesn't exceed the legal limit there is SFA his neighbours or anyone can do
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What amaze's me about this is thread is the OP has based it on absolute "heresay"! You said you approached the cops at one point, well, what did they say?

At the end of the day it won't matter how innocent you claim to be, the cops will do drive by's 'till they stop getting complaints or they catch the culprit. If your exhaust is loud then I have no doubt your abusing this fact, most likely in your street too 'cause that would be your "comfort zone".

FYI, a noisy exhaust is the quickest way to gain unwanted attention.

I'd say you've dug your own grave buddy.
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depends how "loud" his exhaust is. if it doesn't exceed the legal limit there is SFA his neighbours or anyone can do
Wrong. They could call the cops and dob him in for hooning.
Oh wait, they already have.
There is a long list of things that they could do. Not saying I agree with it, but meh. Noise=attention.
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Wrong. They could call the cops and dob him in for hooning.
Oh wait, they already have.
There is a long list of things that they could do. Not saying I agree with it, but meh. Noise=attention.
not if it in within the legal limit, they can call the coppers as much as they like, nothing will happen if its legal. I could ring the police and make a bogus report about the next car that drives past my house. doesn't make it true. A black ute reported for hooning could be any black ute. theres that many of them around. that info alone is a bit useless with out description of vehicle particulars such as make, model etc, may as well ring up and say a white commodore was doing a burnout in the street. point is if you've done nothing wrong and everything is legal. you have nothing too fear
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Wrong. They could call the cops and dob him in for hooning.
Oh wait, they already have.
There is a long list of things that they could do. Not saying I agree with it, but meh. Noise=attention.
Nobody dobbed him in for anything.

Somebody reported a hoon that owns a ute the same colour as the OP's and because of the colour issue he's worried about the fact that his ute is black and has a loud exhaust. He hasn't been dobbed in or anything but people are suggesting he harass his neighbors and the police. Ridiculous.
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This is an easy one. Just paint the ute white
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Ah the old 'go catch real criminals' catch cry. FYI, are many areas of Police who, shock horror, police certain things due to extra training and skill sets. Traffic branches police traffic matters (accidents, traffic complaints, expiations and anything else that involves roads and wheels), general duties are generally responding to taskings (break ins, assaults, disturbances), detectives deal with major matters, sex crimes deal with sexually based offences... The list goes on.

As for the 'I had the name of the person who stole my car' - how were you able to PROVE this beyond a reasonable doubt? Did you SEE them take the car? SAW them in the car? The way the justice system works, is that Police must prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt. If they can't, a successful prosecution won't happen. It's not the Police being lazy, it's how the courts, magistrates and lawyers operate.
I still have his name and it was from getting a photo from facebook(stolen cars are are a bit of a drama in Townsville at the moment so there are some pages to start looking at) and doin a bit of looking around while on there as well as asking a few questions. after going the to the police and giving them my information nothing was done. I should have been more clear there originally but it wasn't the drama I am having
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Nobody dobbed him in for anything.

Somebody reported a hoon that owns a ute the same colour as the OP's and because of the colour issue he's worried about the fact that his ute is black and has a loud exhaust. He hasn't been dobbed in or anything but people are suggesting he harass his neighbors and the police. Ridiculous.
the cops have been involved as they have spoken to a couple of neighbours, I was passed the information on from one of them. that information was that my ute from my address was doing burnouts and speeding up and down the street all the time, as I have said tho it has done 400ish kms in three months it's near on impossible to speed from where my house is in my street also there are no burnout marks on the street or close for that matter.
I did approach one police car after it was sitting out the front of my house for 25ish mins looking into my yard and writing stuff down in a notebook. they said they were looking for someone and then left.
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Grab your camera phone & start video recording your drives in the ute! That way if you get stopped by the law you will have undeniable proof that your a good boy when driving your hotted up, rebuilt, loud vehicle!

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Make it road legal would make no difference, just take a look at what happened to a dealer that took a new VF SS to downshift in Brisbane last week.
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Wow...some of the replies in this thread leave me shaking my head.
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Grab your camera phone & start video recording your drives in the ute! That way if you get stopped by the law you will have undeniable proof that your a good boy when driving your hotted up, rebuilt, loud vehicle!

Maybe get one of your mates to pop a little burnout a few streets away the next time the cops are out front of your house. Might take the heat off you, or at least that's what a non law abiding person might suggest to you. None here though on FF.
I have organised video cameras to be installed at home to record anything random here and the view will have most if not all of the street in view so that covers my driving side of thing and I have been recording when I get pulled over for a few years after a close friend had a run in with an over eager new police officer gave him a fine for something that tuned out to be bogus, we were young at the time and didn't know any different from what they said
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