Hassled by the police?
 

Hey all, I've seen and heard many things about guys getting hassled by cops for having modded cars, pulled over for "random checks", especially for things like loud exhausts, HIDs, aftermarket tail lights, etc.

The Woodbridge area seems to be quite bad for anything pull-over related. There's so many cruisers that frequent the streets these days, I've never seen so many before.

What are your experiences with this?

I have never been pulled over for a "random" check. Had black ej1 with dark tint, loud exhaust, HID's and no problems. Now with flat black DA and louder exhaust, still no problems. And both cars are/were lowered...
Only time I do get hassled by cops is randomly at tims in etobicoke will get blocked in and cops will pretend they smell weed and talk/yell ---- at us.

I only had a problem once that was when I first got my car I reved the car up to 5-6 RPM in first I was a complete noob and they pulled me over for a loud exhaust. The was ok he said change the exhaust fight the ticket or else I will be pulled over all the time. I just fought the ticket didn't change anything and never got pulled over again. My car looks completely stock anyways.

what did you do to fight the ticket though cause I just got a loud exhaust ticket too

The only time I get hassled from the cops are at timmie's.

show up in court or go to ex coppers

I bought my car in april and got pulled over for the first time on friday night... Cop stopped me and said they reports of street racing...didnt believe him cause it was only 1030.. on Dixie just north of Queen.. We wound up just talking for like 10 mins.. and he let me go...

the only way they can give you a loud exhaust ticket is if they have a dB scanner. now im almost 100% sure they just assumed it was too loud.
you can go x-coppers or other places like that and talk to them. they usually give you a free estimate and tell you the probable outcome, which in this case should be dropped out of court

I did fight my ticket the cop never showed. So they just dismissed the whole thing.

They can give you a ticket for your exhaust as it's would be unnessery noise, it does not have to be louder then the limit on it.

The cop does not have to be in the court room, all they have to do, is be signed into the court house.

This I did not know.

^ Ditto. Apparently these days officers are offered incentives to actually show in court, it's getting a lot harder to fight some tickets.

The other day i was followed, but not pulled over. And afterward I noticed my license plat bub was out.... lucky me i guess.

To be honest the cop wasn't an ------- he was the one who told me to change my exhaust and fight the ticket I fought the ticket but didn't want to get a new exhaust. So he didn't bother going at all.

As far as I know both Metro Toronto Police started paying cops overtime for showing up in court a few years ago AND the courts have increasingly co-operated with scheduling dockets so that a single cop could have 40 of his tickets on the same day. So to show up, knock them all down in sequence and get paid OT... it is cop heaven.

Oh and this also seems to have increased the issuing of bullshit tickets they know you will not fight. In April I got a parking ticket for parking too close to a laneway or some horseshit. I was parked in the PARKING LOT of a KFC, while inside the restaurant eating lunch.

I expect they are just taking the chance that for a $50 ticket you will not fight. No way a parking ticket is worth my time. If it means demerit points I will pay X-Coppers or similar to wipe those.

From my knowledge they just make it hard or impossible to fight parking tickets. To be honest it's easier to just pay them than fight them, because unless you have photo evidence of some sort, you just simply will not win.

i've been pulled over often when i was younger...not at all now

Yup, young guy in a tuner.. cop magnet

all u have to say is fukc the popo

I had a very lucky case with that actually I was at the time hortins across from sq1 where the GT cars meet was last saturday. I was meeting someone and parked a little further away because there was no other parking spaces I come out and boom a ticket. I didn't understand why I got the ticket. I noticed I parked in some sort of office parking area, which I found out after checking the area out again one night after school. They were in the same place as the tim hortins. I went to the place to pay for my ticket and asked if I could get it reduced. They actually ended up just letting it go and didn't charge me. I have the ticket right beside me lol.

Wait, he gave you a ticket, but then told you to fight it..??:confused::confused::confused:

yeah. i've had that before to. i wrote of my old car and the cop gave me careless. told me he wouldn't show up so i could get it dropped to a failure to remain in marked lane.

he asked me if i had , quote "learned from this experience" lol i said i had and he told me to get lost. best cop i've ever run into

Got pulled over twice on both my DC and DA by the emissions cops to check everything was in order, no probs. From my exerience just be polite if you get pulled over, just fought a speeding ticket i got in Oct last year actually talked to the cop for about ten mins. while getting the ticket and when it went to court it was dismissed even though the cop was there.

By the way if you don't have too many tickets that plays a part too when they pull you over.

I Have only been pulled over once but that was due to speeding which i got taken of by being polite.

Ok so speaking by what i know since i completed a Police foundations 2 year courses...cops can pull you over simply because they are a loud to for such reasons as not having insurance, tags, or just to see if you have been drinking. All my profs. said if you are nice right away you will be let off with no problems, but there is always the case where a cop is in a bad mood and will take it out a tuner. So ya if you guys got any questions about cop problems give me a shout thanks. Paul.

First let me say, i would have deserved what i could have got, but i thought this cop was great.

So i have the temp sticker for ten days and it was expired. i didnt have my insurance card yet because my company forgot to send it. So i get pulled over for the sticker, its expired, the cop says i cant prove i have insurance and that it would be towed/impounded and i'd have some pretty big fines. i talked to him and told him some stuff bout me in the past and what not, and he came back and gave me a ticket for not displaying insurance card which was for 50 bucks. he told me when i get my insurance card, go fight it and tell them quote "some stupid cop pulled you over and you couldnt find it in your glove box" and they'll drop it. and he said he'd not give a ---- and look the other way as i drive off with my car illegal lol.

ya some cops will let you go just tell them staright up what happened most will understand and yes once you get the new card take it to court and you will NOT have to pay the ticket.

Some cops are ok... i seem to get the dicks tho... i had both insurance and ownership but they were in my gym bag in the trunk i offered to let the cop search my stuff but since it was only me and him on a dark stretch her forbid me to get out the car while attempting to unclip his gun so i kept me ass quiet and took both tickets then fought them and waste d a ton of time...

oh thats bad... but look at his point of view doesnt know what you will pull out of there.

Yea, that could either be the most horse ---- cop, or he was just being careful. maybe you look suspicious lol

I sometimes carry my RPG in the car, you never know.. :rolleyes:

But then I guess you can't blame them for being too careful. It can be a dangerous city, after all

lol ill make sure i avoid you then Haha

the best part, just remain silent, answer question he wants, and just listen their what they want to lecture you.

otherwise, they will make a note of this ticket, and make your life very difficult to get away afterward.

i'm fine getting a ticket once in a while, as a trade off for having the idiots that stop in the middle of the road because there lost and confused getting a ticket. cops do serve a purpose, lol its just a trade off the way i look at it.

just you let some people know... when you get a parking ticket, the cock sucker takes a picture of you car too.. in 3 different angles,, so if you decide to take it to court and try to bullshit your way out and you get OWNED HARD! when he pulls out with a couple of pics of how,when and why he gave you that ticket in the first place, ... dont be shocked.

Nothing a bit of colouring can't fix.

But that I did'nt know. I suppose that one depends on who exactly issues your ticket, if it's Vaughan's By-Law enforcement, then chances are yes. Some cops though, I don't exactly see carrying around a camera..

hah i live in woodbridge and all the cops down here are after sport cars and drugs all my buddies get pulled over for having tints to dark, car to lowww and LOTS of random checks

cops are A** when it comes to tuners. i was leaving my house and at the stop sign near my house i get pulled over Ms. Officer because my headlights weren't on at 4 p.m., in the end she gave me a muffler ticket. they just pull you over thinking you know nothing about the law. once you show them you know exactly whats going on you can either walk away with a small ticket or get screwed big time.

Well by law your car comes with DRL's and they should be on during the day, that's why they are called day time running lights, they are made to be on in the day, it helps people see you coming from a distance, so they were just doing there job, so don't be mad at them when it's your own fault for braking the law by not having then working properly.

Lol I get pulled over like I have a sticker that says f**k the police or something on my window always for stupid reasons and I'm always super polite and I always find a way to tell them I'm in police foundations to see if they will think oh he's gonna be one of us and let me off but i've only been let off once last night actually but whatever modded car what do you expect right if you can't beat them join them =Dha

lol this thread is hilarious ....i use to live in toronto only been pulled over 2 times in the city one cuz he basically felt the need to stop me and i talked my way out of it ...i use to work at toronto police headquaters , he thought i was just some punk kid until he talked to me of course..the second time for hitting a crackhead who cant walk properly, the moron randomly walks infront of my car as im turning ... ALSO got stopped 2 times in woodbridge got a 15 over ticket from some bitch in york region then just last week by this ------- at 4 district YRP at jane and mac for my license plate cuz it wasn't bolted up on the front of the car gave him a good excuse gives me a ticket any how and says to me fight it lol what a jackass

my conclusion toronto cops r generally cool yrp cops have nothing better to do mst of them so they bug tuners ....funny thing is i wanna be a cop but cant stand the ------- cops ...but there are nice ones just got to be lucky i guess ....

no i had my DRL on she was nagging for me not having my headlights fully on, my DRL's work perfectly. she was just chilling right by house and had nothing better to do then pull me over. the weather wasnt even bad it was all good, even the light that comes on telling you to turn your headlights didnt come on.

Actually there is NO law in the HTA that states you have to have Daytime Running Lights.
you can disable them. its not illegal to not have them and no ticket should be given.


also you do not need a third brake light. what you do need is 2 headlights (white/amber) and just 1 rear light (red). also you need a light for your license plate.

http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/sta...es_90h08_e.htm

I got pulled over the other night, my friend was in front of me driving a new EVO and turned right on a red pretty quick and there was a cop accorss the street, i come to a stop, then turn and he turns his lights on and flys after me, so i pulled over, then 2 more cruisers pull up, i asked why there was so many cops and he said, "just incase"?? thats all he had to say, so he told me to turn my wheel cuz im lowerd and he made sure i wasnt rubbing, he tried messuring how low my car is, this is the 2nd cop whos bitched and done this -_- but im not rubbing on the ground either, only speed bumps (N) so he checked all my tires, asked me if i had a horn so i honked it, and i have a bunch of ignited red top switches in my car so he asked what all of them were, i said they wernt hooked up yet lol, then he goes to his car, comes back, bitches about my driving record, then after i kinda showed him i didnt care, he bitched about my exhaust how he can stick him arm in it, but he didnt give me any tickets and just before he went to leave..and this litteraly made me laugh out loud, he noticed my CF hood and said, ohh and you might want to change your hood, you can get your car towed for not being safe and your plates will be removed on road side and youll be fined and have to do safty inspection all over again, have a good night and walked off, rofl...gay night
BTW this was in waterloo, anyone in the area will know how STUPID they sound when they try to talk about cars... SRT4 BOVS are apparently NOZ ROFL

I have Stunt driving, 2 Speeding, and 1 Running a red light, that was about 2 years ago, all in the same year -_- and ever since i havent gotten a ticket, been let of with exhaust warning 3 times now lol, i find my luck is better, just REALLLYYY annoying how i litteraly cant drive downtown with out being pulled over "randomly"

They run your plates when they see the tuners, and if you've got a record, your "chances" of being pulled over suddenly get a lot higher.

They really drill the tuner guys with questions and inspections, just can't give them reason and make it easy to peg you for something. I've been followed before, ran my plates for sure, clean record, didn't pull me.

I was parked across 2 spots the other night at a tim hortons in the area, and the cop came right up behind my car as I was walking to it, and asked me "so do you drive like you park?" :rolleyes: "nnnnope :D"

ROFL
best one is driving standard, you idleing and they try to give you a parking ticket, and you say i dont have a park gear and laugh, id assume they would get really pissed but your getting the ticket anyways, im waititng to get a ticket for this so i can do it for shits and giggles haha

How can you park without a parking gear? It's impossible!

They don't like when you insult their (sometimes lacking) intelligence :p

wow what a huge prick he was trying real hard to nail you with something only reason he didnt is cus hes completely full of ----

last month on the qew i was comming home and following a friend out of no where i see cherries behind me im like ughh ---- wtf now
i pull over im waiting in my car cop takes like 10 mins to come to the window i give him my papers and ask him why i was being pulled over cop says he saw me flashing the car in front of me i told him that i new the driver and i was just signaling him he goes back to his car and after like another half hour he comes back with a huge lecture about how its illegal to flash blah blah blah luckly he didnt give me a ticket and i was on my way.. wtf

ROFL guess he figured you would just get the guy to go to court and he would look like an ass lol. cant believe he actualy wasted his time doing that tho :S

and the stupid part is they only harrass us imports, i know alot of guys with retardedly loud mustangs and dodge rams, their ALOT louder then my car and youll never see a cop pull over a domestic for their exhaust being too loud. -__-

i live in markham and these york cops are loserss..they pull me over for improper muffler..many times warned and got tickets like 5 times..almost got my car towed because its too low the tire is not even rubbing..after all these pullovers and nuisance from the cops i am changing my muffler to something quite and i got annoyed of the loud noise

DWB - i get pulled over for that all the time!

I hope you all realize even warnings are put on the computer, every time your plate is run, its on the computer. In my time, we've been around a lot of cops, showing up at events and meets just to make sure everything was cool, check out the cars etc etc. They explained/showed us how some of this works, and all that. I also had a friend who used the "my plate fell off thats why its in my window" excuse so many times, and then 1 time the cop was like umm well thats what you said the other so many times... so i'm gonna have to give you a ticket... Just be careful!

all the time...we're "punks" in their eyes

iv gotten 3 "warnings" now for my exhaust, and my tires and suspention checked twice with in the past 2 months, im waiting to get pulled over for my exhaust again to talk ---- out my ass about the HTA and ---- to make it "seem" like i know what im talking about, that normaly scares them cuz 90% of the cops out there dont know ---- all about cars...i still cant get over the cop saying my friends BOV was "noz" rofl

truth!



I never really get harassed unless I'm in a timmies parking lot. However, I did get pulled over the other day for speeding, first time being pulled over and first ticket in 4 1/2 yearssss BOOOOO!!!! :nonono:


see you in court popo :D

on monday had my court date and my fine was reduced from 110 to 40.

Did you ask them out or did they ask you? :p