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SentraSERj
08-29-2002, 09:39 AM
Ya my friend owns a 90 honda prelude, and the officer pulled him over for modefied muffler. He then ask my friend to pop open his hood. Then he said "it looks like u got a illegal intake here." MY friend said no and showed him the carb sticker, but even though my firend showed him the carb sticker, the cop threw it back at him and still wrote up the intake as illegal, and gave my friend a ticket for clear coners, even though it had yellow amber bulbs, and gave ticket for the headlights because it had a little in blue in it, and finally a ticket for the exhaust, even though it pass emission with the exhaust. Now my friend has to lose money for taking time off of work because of this bullshit cop. And right now my friend cant really afford taking a day off of work. What should he do? And this happen in Newark, Cali.
Red93R1
08-29-2002, 01:25 PM
What was the real reason the officer stopped him? He probably got stopped for something else and was let off easy with the fix-it tickets.
There really isn't anything your friend can do other than show up for his day in court and either show that it was legal or show that it has been fixed.
SentraSERj
08-29-2002, 02:41 PM
like i said before, he got pulled over for modefied muffler. he has a round shape muffler.
Wolf
08-29-2002, 03:34 PM
Go to court. Show the carb # to the judge and the intake will be signed off, Catback exhaust has absolutely nothing to do with smog, all it changes is the noise. What VC did he write up for the exhaust? If it was 27151, that states the exhaust has to be over 95dB, plead not guilty to this, show up in court. The cop will have to come to court and prove that the exhaust is louder than 95dB, since he never checked it with a dB meter, there is no proof, and the cite will be dismissed.
Read this thread: http://www.streetracing.org/boards/showthread.php?s=&threadid=54487

For the clear corners, they have to have orange reflectors on the sides in the front, and red side reflectors on the back lenses. If they don't have reflectors, they're not legal, regardless of bulb color.