# Is there a Legal decible rating for exhaust?

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**Category:** PittSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [August 7, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-there-a-legal-decible-rating-for-exhaust/191653 "2007-08-07T17:03:58Z")
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### Author: ![85StangGT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/278dde/32.png) [@85StangGT](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/85StangGT)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2007, 10:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/is-there-a-legal-decible-rating-for-exhaust/191653/16 "2007-08-08T10:13:01Z")

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> [@\*OFFICIAL\* Buffalo Sabres 2007 Off-Season Thread](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-buffalo-sabres-2007-off-season-thread/30906/243):
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> Most cops don’t even have the equipment to measure decibels - let alone know how to use it and the proper way to measure it. Knowing this, I would say go ahead and try. If they cite you without measuring properly, you could always fight it, put some exhaust on, and have them measure it officially.

i agree. unless you can show me a cop that drives around with a decibal reader, go ahead and put headers and an O/R pipe on. hell most local shops around me don’t even have decibal readers. i was in this same situation. except i got pulled over for having an illegally modified exhaust which was a fart can on an otherwise stock cavalier. i wasn’t up to knowledge on this when i was ticketed. so i fought it and won.

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