So as some of you know, i just bought and installed my HKS cat back…Onyx’s old one…and every day since, have begun to realize more and more how much of a dick NYS is when it comes to such things…and how much trouble i may be asking for…
so my questions for those of you that have received tickets for aftermarket exhaust in the past are:
1 - How many tickets have you received for exhaust?
2 - where did you get the ticket?
3 - how much was it for?
4 - is your exhaust flashy? and how loud is it?
5 - did you get out of it, and if so how?
i’m just trying to get a feel for what i’ve gotten myself into…i’ll be hanging on to my stock exhaust, with my reasoning being that if i put it back on for the court date, maybe they’ll buy that i got it fixed right away? i saw in the exhaust laws sticky that one of you had gotten 14 or so exhaust tickets, and gotten out of every one…that’s obviously rare…but how hard are these to get out of?
even though it is very possible and easy to keep my exhaust quiet, there’s no hiding how flashy it is…and i will without a doubt be getting tickets for it this year i imagine…
I have never gotten an exhaust ticket with the same thing…But then again I didnt drive like too much of an ass to have them do more than look at it funny. But younger people may experience more hardships than I. I don’t think onyx has ever had one either.
I’ve had three exhaust tickets with a borla on my solara (two in amherst, one in syracuse). It wasnt so much loud as it was extremely deep. All the tickets got dropped except the last one in which i had to get a sheet signed. The muffler was not flashy at all, it looked stock. My car looks mostly stock as well. I went with a quieter apexi this past weekend. The cops around amherst where I am tend to notice the loud exhausts alot. I got out of the other ones by bringing in receipts saying that the exhaust was an oem replacement. Most judges dont even know the actual law which states that you cannot modify an exhaust system from factory settings.
the day i got my Dakota, one of my dumb ass friends somehow talked me into sawing the stock exhaust system off so that it pretty much dumped right after the cat. i drove iot around like that for a week and nothing ever happened to me. it was DAMN loud though!!
i’m obviously not gonna drive like an ass, i’m more scared of breaking more shit on my car than tickets…but tickets are there too…
i’m just concerned about the percentage of dick cops out there that, for example…give people like desmond (cyanide) tickets for exhaust…back when he still had a totally stock exhaust system…
the receipts i printed out were just bs. If you know a licensed inspection shop you should be able to have them sign something for you saying they “fixed” your exhaust. i’ve never had to actually pay for them so im not exactly sure what it would cost. I’ve never been driving like an ass when I got one either, just driving around town. Its more the tinted windows combined with a loud muffler that pisses them off. It got too loud for me anyways which is why i corrected it.
I have a certificate somewhere from HKS that states that the exhaust is no louder (db level) than the factory one, making it street legal. Read the exhaust sticky HERE and don’t drive like an ass. :tup:
0 exhaust tickets … I came close a few times in the Accord when she was on the road. I didn’t have a muffler though … Jeremy_gt has gotten a few for non-muffler/to loud exhaust
its nice to have something illegal on ur car. that way when they pull u over when ur doing something stupid you can usually walk away with just that ticket.its about 130 with the surcharge
I got pulled over in October for an unsafe start, and the cop mentioned the exhaust, but didn’t write me up for it, so I guess it wasn’t too loud, but it was loud enough to stand out.
I run Hooker Long tubes, X-Pipe, Bullet Mufflers, and dump out the sides infront of the rear tires… no cats, no emissions, LOUD AS HELL!!!
And I don’t get tickets for exhaust… just gotta watch the weight of the right foot infront of cops. I’ve had this for 2 years; before that I ran a dump which was still loud, and never got anything said.
same with me, got pulled for no front plate, then got questioned on the exhaust, the tint, the lowering kit, the headlights, the taillights. cop was a real ass