Hopefully you can avoid court altogether. Since we’re all sharing stories…
I was pulled over in the formula in Lancaster before I got the exhaust done. Turned off transit to have somebody tailgating me. I did get on it a little up the speed limit.
I then notice the light bar on top. I let off, exhaust pops… D’oh. Lights come on. I pull over, shoulder is uneven, low hanging x-pipe/turn-downs scrape…D’oh.
Officer asks if I know why he pulled me over, “I’m gonna guess loud exhaust” he then asked “yeah, whats up with it?”
I tell him its a work in progress (it is/was) and I was just cruising over to a friends house (I was).
Takes my license registration. Comes back and then asks questions about my BFG drag radials, says they seem pretty bald, I tell him they come with little tread being drag tires, asks if I do a lot of burnouts…tell him I do at the raceway. Hands me my license/registration back tells me to get it fixed and if he sees me again without it fixed he would ticket me.