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Speaking of license plate lights, I had a cop pull me over at 2 o’clock in the afternoon in full sunlight because he said my license plate light was not working. I explain to him that the license plate light only comes on when your headlights are activated. He gave me a ticket anyway even though I showed him that that in fact was true. I even showed him how on his own patrol car the license plate light did not come on until you turned on the headlights. Luckily, I videotaped myself showing him how the lights work and we went to court. When I showed my footage to the judge, the judge not only threw out my ticket but also, openly chastised the cop for the illegal stop and mandated that he go through the traffic violation school again. I did an open records request and found that he did go back through the school and had to present his little certificate to the judge. I run into this cop fairly regularly and never miss an opportunity to point out what a dumb ass he was. It’s the little victories!
They should have sent his supervisor through the class as well. I am sure he knew this was happening.
That's incredible! Good for you
Not good enough, he should have lost pay, rank, and a permanent record of his illegal stop. Maybe even fired
@@garythecyclingnerd6219 I had a police officer complain about my license plate lights. I told him sorry that his 2018 headlights are overpowering my 1979 bulbs, but they do indeed work. He was mad but didn't ticket me for it
@@garythecyclingnerd6219 agreed
I can't get my catalytic convert stolen if my car doesn't have one 🤷🏻
Mines safe somewhere in my garage lmao
I took mines off in fear of getting them stolen
Mine are hollowed out…
My cars old enough it dont need em lmao
I'm so torn on those. I want more power, but not the pollution or smell. I split the difference: Left cat on car, deleted it on bike.
A "pharmaceutical distributor" I once knew always laughed at his peers who got arrested after being pulled over for some minor traffic violation. He always said "don't be breaking the law, while you're breaking the law". A very wise moron.
I like the designation you used.
If youre gonna do wrong, do wrong right
They'll manufacture a reason to pull you over if they really want to. "Improper lane usage" is one they like. I drove in a single lane, with cruise control on and that was the reason they gave me before they searched my car and, through civil asset forfeiture, took 2k in cash from me. Then when I complained, they threatened to take my car. Luckily, I had just purchased the new car and owed more than it was worth. So they couldn't justify siezing it. They were actually asking how much I owed on it as they looked up the value. I was young and they promised all I had to do was go to court and show why I had the cash and I could get it back. Never saw a dime of it back. That was a horrible experience.
Yaaaa don't go braking the Law when you're braking the F'ing law! Geeze
He’s not wrong
I have bought ex government cars for 25 years. Mostly old police cars. Let me tell you how many violations they contain. Super dark tinted windows, burned out license plate lights, seatbelt wrapped around the seat and plugged in to prevent the seatbelt buzzer.
And they can get away with It because no one's gonna stop a cop car for a taillight out or window tint.
A family friend was a cop when I was growing up and every one of his cars had the belt buckled behind the seat. He could also get away with a loud exhaust and things like that because cops generally won't ticket another cop with minor things like that
In new york, officers will pull YOU over for an obstructed plate, and the patrol car that they pulled you over in, has a tinted plate cover on it thats so dark, they may as well have spray painted it
In Virginia the code book has a ton of exceptions for government vehicles that police write summons/tickets daily for on other vehicles.
@@GrimReaper528777 lol Virginia as a whole is a big ball of corrupt police.
I used to live in Montana and car registration was the best. 10+ year old cars can get permanent registration by paying 2 years of registration at once. No sales tax. No inspections. Huge selection of custom plates. 24% tint front side windows and no tint restrictions on windows behind the driver.
Damn that’s awesome
Any chance I can "live" there?😇 LOL
I still live in montana, can confirm this still true. However due to the influx of Californians moving here and screwing up the market we are now closed. Go to Wyoming nobody there gives a crap either
Don’t let them drive you to the train station.
l love living in Montana, recently paid less than $200 for permanent registration on the last car I bought and got some awesome Glacier National Park plates. 80mph speed limit are pretty nice too
I had one cop that harassed me daily. I had a 95 chevy k1500 straight piped 350. It was loud and I was definitely a redneck kids truck but it was nice. I made sure everything that needed to work worked. The cop would follow me out of town and then pull me over for my exhaust, even going as far as stalking me when I was parked and waiting for me to start the truck. One night I had just replaced every bulb in the truck when he pulls me over and says he stopped me for not having any lisence plate lights. I said that's impossible I just put them in and checked them. I then asked if I can step out and see for myself. The cop then put his hand on his gun and said boy if try getting out your getting shot. I then explained again there was no way the lights were out. He runs my info and takes forever to do so. Mind you I'm 16 at this point so curfew is at 10. He stopped me at like 9:30. So since he couldn't get me for the plate lights he waited in his car and acted like he's running my info for 30 minutes and at exactly 10:01 he comes back and starts telling me to get out of the truck and I'm under arrest for being out after curfew. I was on my way home. He has since lost his job all togther and I laughed my ass off when he did.
Nebraska teaches at the academy that if they stop an old beat-up vehicle to run the registration and insurance because they often have one expired.
We had a rookie she-bear that took it to mean every ranch rocket she sees likely has no registration and no insurance.
She almost ran my isuzu amigo over, then stopped me and I could see her deflate when I pulled out my registration and the stickers were with it, then almost ran me over twice more before I had to quit driving it just to not get harassed.
It hit a cow 5 owners before i got it, and got fixed well enough to fit a new radiator, i got the right headlight pointed somewhat down on the road when i bought it. Hood was held down with a ratchet strap, and i cut the exhaust off because i got tired of it catching on everything. And the hard top didn't match. 0-65 eventually (but like a billy goat offroad, and very forgiving on our loose gravel). Not exactly difficult to recognize.
4 encounters in 3 weeks, the last time I was waiting on her, and she about had that charger stood up on its nose. About asked if her memory is that bad or she just likes fat guys.
She did that to a bunch of people, finally got in trouble when she finally did hit someone.
@@scotcoon1186 when I say my truck was a redneck truck i don't mean it was beat up. My truck was rust free straight as an arrow but had an American flag in the bed a brush gaurd and some off road lights and bigger wheels stickers in the back window and such. My truck was also 100% legal. Plates and insurance all valid. He had no way of getting me for anything but curfew.
I'm glad the power trip cop was encouraged to find other work.
Years ago I was leaving my hometown after visiting my dad and a cop pulled me over for not doing insurance verification (Illinois randomly requires people to prove they have insurance). I had just done it that morning, so I understood that it wouldn't have been visible to him yet. He told me he had to impound my highly modified FD RX-7 because of this and asked for my keys because if I took off he'd never catch me (as if they don't have radios), so I gave him one of the two sets of keys I had on me lol. He pulled the plate off the car and called a tow truck. I called my dad to get a ride back to his house and when he got there he walked right past me back to the cop and started ripping into him about me being a veteran lol (turns out he had a history of harassing my dad over stupid shit). We left and followed the tow truck all the way to the impound yard. They never put the car behind the fence, it sat in front of the building all night. Luckily this is a tiny town in Southern Illinois that doesn't care much about modified imports. But I still checked on it every couple hours throughout the night.
The next morning I went to the insurance agent and got verification that I had completed the verification and took it to the police station to get my plate and keys back. I explained what happened to the lady at the desk and gave her the ticket, and she started talking to her supervisor or whoever and I heard them say in hushed tones that he wasn't allowed to impound my car. She gave me my keys and plate and I asked for a written letter stating the matter was handled so I had proof if I got pulled over again. She said I wouldn't need a letter because they were just throwing the ticket away and it was as if it never happened. I said since that's the case can you guys pay the impound fee. I mean, if it never happened.... "oh we don't have money for that". The guy at the impound yard gave me a discount but I still shouldn't have even had to pay that, especially since it never got put into the yard anyway.
Dad told me to give him one of my plates when I changed registration to Colorado so he could give it to the cop since he wanted my plate so bad lol. I'm not sure if he ever did, but he did report it to the paper right after it happened. I believe a couple years later that cop had become a park ranger or something. It's for the best.
In cleveland ohio it is illegal to have an audio system in your car thats more then 20 watts. That technically means that your stock audio system from the factory is illegal.
I'm from cleveland myself. A few years ago, I got pulled over for a "noise violation". At least that's what the cop told me he pulled me over for. I had a magnaflow exhaust on my vehicle and instead of writing me a ticket for excessive noise, which is what he said he was going to do, he wrote a ticket for an illegal modification and emission system tampering. I took it to court, brought the magnaflow manual showing its just just a cat back, that its even 50 state legal including california, and the judge agreed with me and threw out the ticket. I paid the $65 court fee and left victorious! ($65 is much better than a $1000!)
In that case, lookup oldschool "cheater amps". They were rated 20w at 8ohms or so, but just so happened to be stable down to 1ohm or less, where they made hundreds. Malicious compliance is good sport.
@@The_Moderates_Apprentice what? I've had motor vehicle cases dismissed before and was required to pay nothing!
@@nobodynoone2500 yeah but your head unit I rated 22x4 lol
I think J walking is the most trippy law on the planet i have no idea what it even means but when i hear it in movies i think. Land of the fee f YEAH.
I got stopped for failure to use a turn signal, got a ticket for no insurance. There was a 3 day gap on the verification forms. Since I knew I'd paid my insurance, I went and got a letter from my agent stating it was a typo on the insurance company part. Took it to court and it was tossed out and i had to pay a reinstatement fee of $175. Three years later in was stopped for a tag light and arrested for driving under suspension and a state warrant for no insurance three years earlier they hauled me in and I bonded out grabbed the letter from 3 yrs earlier. The judge remember me and dismissed it again and I paid my reinstatement fee and and off I went. Fast forward 4 yrs and I get stopped for a tail light out (a 64 Impala) and arrested once more for a warrant on the no insurance and driving under suspension and had to get bailed out of jail. Letter in hand I get Infront of the judge who looks at me and then my charge sheet said i was to set and wait until the end of court. When it ended he said something to the court reporter and the bailiff and then said to come into his chamber and get comfortable. A few minutes later the bailiff returns and hands me a soda and sits the the report comes in and sets up and then we all stated our names then he picked up the phone dialed a number and chat's for a couple of minutes and then after a really long pause where he became extremely irritated with having to wait. After 15 minutes he got someone on line asked if he was so and so head of Dept of public safety he got the answer and asked about my case and was told it was suspended for failure to have insurance and failing to pay the fine. Judge cut him off and said what fine and he listened to a couple words and cut him off and said in a cold cold voice there was no fine because it was dismissed the guy said something about it takes time to get it in the computer and judge cut him off and asked if it took 3 yrs the guy said no then he asked if it took 7 yrs . Guy said no then judge said i dismissed the ticket two days after it was issued because he had insurance, the guy started to say something when the judges cut him off and stated he dismissed it again 3 yrs after it was issued the guy was quite and said he had just dismissed it again that day, then in a deadly quite voice that scared me he said if ever appeared on that charge again he would dismiss it and issue arrest warrants for everyone starting with the director on down until everyone who has anything to do with my case was in jail for contempt of court and would set in jail until they figured out what they did wrong and and then make them pay big fines to top it off. I paid reinstatement fee and every time it was double the last one. I wasn't happy but i figured it's over and I'm only out of my job and $1225 dollars and not happy but glad it was over. 6 months later i got my mail and there was a letter from the DPS and there was a check for $3675. 00 the letter was from a law firm that filed a class action lawsuit for deceptive reinstatement fees and everyone they found between two dates were getting their fees back except in my case the judge ordered I get 3 times for the issue of not having gotten tickets just suspended license.
Too bad you weren't able to record that conversation in the judge's chamber.
Man, you should read your own post. It's basically nine or ten loooooooooooooooooooooooooooong sentences riddled with so many errors that I had massive difficulty understanding what you're talking about.
I live in California and the DMV has a rule about the placement of the registration sticker. I put it where it is supposed to go but I put them on upside down. Doesn't say I can't do it. I hate giving the DMV money.
DMV everywhere is cancerous like that
The dmv.. begging for permission to drive on the roads you already paid for.
You rebel
We gotta badass over here!
@@joemclaughlin8657 the baddest of asses
A lot of these laws sound like "wahhhh wahhhh I'm a big trooper/lawmaker guy and i want more of your hard earned money. Gimme moooooooooore!"
I once got pulled over for "no front bumper." Long story short I had blown a hole in my transmission at the race track, and had to remove the front bumper cover in order to get the car on the dolly because it sat too low. Had a parts car at the house, pulled the trans from it, pulled the busted one from my car, installed good one, and didn't get a chance to put the bumper cover back on.
So I ran out for lunch one day, a local cop lights me up, and asks if I know why he pulled me over. I didn't and he says because I don't have a front bumper. Mind you, my actual bumper, AKA the crash bar was still in place. I was befuddled, but signed the ticket and got back to work. I researched the law he said I was violating, and sure enough I was not in violation of it since the crash bar was still there.
I plead not guilty, took pictures of the car as it sat and printed them off. When I went for my hearing I let the cop talk, then I just handed the pictures to the judge. I then read the statute verbatim. The cop looked at me and asked why I didn't question him when he pulled me over. I responded, "Only an idiot would argue with a cop on the side of the road. " The judge laughed, and told me I was good to go and to get on out of there. I walked away paying nothing, and the cop got embarrassed, and a talking to by the judge after I left.
"only an idiot would argue with a cop on the side of the road" lol I love that because it's so true. Cops don't like being argued with because they don't take criticism.
I owned a 95 9c1 Caprice in 99. It was ordered by Missouri Highway Patrol with tinted windows. I had the build sheet and subsequent order modification sheet. They wanted the spotlight removed, tinted windows, full cloth interior. It waa ordered and used as an accident investigation vehicle. I'd get pulled over for the tint and would show the work order and say "You ordered it not me. I lived in Missouri and they'd shrug it off and leave me alone.
My 2017 Jeep Wrangler has a 6 inch Post Mount Unity LED Cop Spotlight I added when the Jeep was new. I use it all the time. No issues!
I live in Missouri the legal tint on the front windows is 35%, I’ve ran 20% for 10 years and never been pulled over
In Oregon smoked license plate covers are illegal but every unmarked police car has them. They kinda stick out once you notice.
How about ALL the dump trucks that don't Have licence plates? Ever notice that?
@@scottmichael3745 why would i care? Are they gonna pull me over? Sounds like you have a odd strange dump truck fetish.
Yeah my kid always leaves blunts in my cup holders… darn kids !!!
Tell me your from the midwest without telling me your from the midwest
So why do you let the little stoner drive your car?
I keep a pound of ganja in the passenger seat so cops don't focus on my car mods.
That's insanely smart
My favorite is a blown headlight. Had one go out on my way to work (3rd shift). Pulled over, towed my vehicle, impound fee, missed day of work, $285 to get my vehicle back. Now if a police car's light blows at night, you can bet your ass they won't tow it to the shop. It's unsafe for me, but acceptable for it to get taken care of at their leisure when it's their vehicle.
Impound for broken lightbulb? that's a whole another level of stupid.
@@kkocicakk They do it to remind you they can. The cop told me it would be okay to leave it in parking lot where he pulled me over until morning. Got a call two hours later from the towing company that towed it. Cop just straight up lied to me. The towing company said they were called less than 30mins later.
Where do they tow you for a single headlight out? In my state you would have a case to reclaim your damages.
You don't carry spare bulbs?
This happened to me but I got out of it because the cops headlight was out too
My Dad taught me this years ago. The whole point is to stay under the radar. Don't give them a reason to stop you. You do that by knowing state and local laws. Knowing where the police hang out. Lastly, keep your vehicle clean and be cool when stopped. I've always had a lead foot. I've been stopped dozens of times over 30 years of driving. Yet, I've only been ticketed a few times.
It's amazing how many people get stopped for a minor violation and the cops find $100k of drugs and 5 stolen guns in the car. If I was transporting illegal goods, I'd be driving like I was taking a driving test.
@@bwofficial1776 "One crime at a time."
It's why I've always liked cars that are "sleepers". Go fast, but they don't look it. No loud exhausts, no flashy graphics, no bright colors, no vanity tags. Just stay under the radar.
@@bwofficial1776 Most likely they were already watching the guy for some time, only deciding to pull him over when he's leaving the warehouse where they manufacture the drugs/store the loot.
@@driven01 I can tell you from personal experience, you can spot a kid's modded JDM rice rocket on the San Diego freeway from 700' above ground level without any effort whatsoever.
Best way to avoid being pulled over: drive a car with government plates
Not true. My late godfather worked for NYS as an inspector for goods bought by the state and on state contracts. The job required him to drive all over the state. He had an assigned state owned car. A lot of times it was a former state police Dodge Diplomat or Plymouth Gran Fury. He'd get pulled over for exceeding the speed limit. He'd always manage to get out of the ticket by BSing with the baconator about how they liked their uniform shirts, which was a product he frequently inspected.
@@lokisgodhi That brought to my mind the summer I worked for the Canadian Federal Government while in University. There were four of us in a Government car on a Native reservation going back towards the big city rather quickly. We were stopped by a Reservation Police officer (after inspecting a new reservation medical clinic for construction deficiencies, if that matters). I could barely keep it together through the driver's BS. We left without a ticket being issued.
@@lokisgodhi oh well alright. More specifically I mean DoD plates
@@charlie_nolan I've been pulled over with DOD plates you aren't impervious to traffic laws when driving a GOV.
The only plates that can 100% protect you from police are diplomatic plates, but they are only available to diplomats.
I had a friend that got a ticket for expired registration. it was FIVE years expired. He thought it was cool that the fine was less than 5 years worth of registration. It wasn't malicious he just never thought about it.
I tried 3x to renew the license on my motorcycle & the clerks office had some or another issue each time. I ended up riding it for another 5 years before I was ticketed. I had to pay one year back & one year new to get it up to date & the judge dismissed the charge. Lesson learned?
@@klatubaradanikto it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?
I don’t pay to have my motorcycle inspected. It’s like $40 for everything each year. Ticket in my state for being out of date is like $70. Get away for 2 years and you’re up $10.
If you don't have registration, wouldn't your insurance be void?
@@BigDavoNorriwong you can insure anything bro. Doesn't have to be DOT registered.
it's funny they have that sound law for decibels on exhaust in florida, but half of the state troopers in challengers have mid muffler deletes which definitely brings their DB over 86
And cops have illegal tint
there are always laws around almost anything. In Germany, they now lowered the limit for new cars to around 70db iirc, but that is measured at a certain distance while driving between 45 and 55 km/h (on slight acceleration). The noise when standing still and idling can be higher, it is measured at 7m distance to the car in line with the muffler (the regulations on this are quite strict). The Hyundai i30n had this at over 110db.
Nowadays exhausts with flaps in them are illegal, they may not be retrofitted anymore to any car here. But a few years ago, they weren't, and in some cases factory installed ones still aren't. Most operate in such a way that they close up at about 40km/h and open up above 60km/h. So in normal city driving they are always "quiet", so at the speeds the measurements for the db limit while moving are done, they are fine. But at higher speeds the car can get a lot louder.
Some now are also keeping quiet when starting the car so you don't startle your neighbours at 4am.
There are still exceptions for motorbikes, but they are closing in on that too, and the bike community doesn't like it. They are overdoing it with their exhausts though to a much larger extend than car enthusiasts, to the point where they are just annoying everyone in a several mile radius.
sorta like when ya doing a buck 50 and the cop chucks a u turn n he doing 2 bucks to catch ya, is speeding more than the speeder ok apparently it is cause cops can break the law to enforce the law
not true, your car probably makes a lot of noise
..except for some occassional sports cars, and an occassional diesel pickup with those fart can exhausts and whistling turbos,you can't generally hear the cars on the highway that is near my house...motorcycles, however, are another story..loud as hell and very annoying..and there are a lot of them..pisses me off, actually, to the point that I kind of hate motorcycles..the worst ones are the screaming "crotch rockets" that sound like they are turning 50,000 RPM..they echo for miles..the V-twins generally ride more courteously, and wouldn't be that bad, unless EVERYBODY didn't think they had to run straight pipes on them..thundering groups of 6-10 of them, again, annoying as hell..and then, there's the parking lot in town, where somebody suddenly starts a straight-piped one.."BRUMMMP!" pretty close to you when you are walking across the parking lot..I just don't understand why it isn't illegal, or if it is, why it isn't enforced..it's noise pollution to the extreme, and there are so many around here now, it's constant noise, especially on weekends..I don't know if the riders just have an "I can get away with it and if it bothers you, too bad" attitude, or they are just oblivious..but something needs to be done...
The plate blocker spray is funny because the new blue plates here in Tennessee are supposed to be similar. How they're made makes them hard to read. Esp with a flash.
Lol yellow headlights are totally legal in my state "321.393 Color and mounting.
1. A lighting device or reflector, when mounted on or near the front of a motor truck or trailer, except a school bus, shall not display any other color than white, yellow, or amber."
I ended up requesting new plates on my cars last year for misuse of stuff like this. Pennsylvania stopped issuing license plate stickers in 2016 and I travel to North Carolina twice per year. After the third time getting pulled over in Virginia under the false pretense of an expired tag, I asked for new plates. The officers never attempted to write a ticket for the tag, but they did take a long look at the cars and ask a boatload of questions.
I got you beat... my brother in law was from PA, moved to FL... never scraped the inspection stickers from PA off his truck. FL has no inspection. He used to drive up to PA just to F with the cops!
I have found that VA state troopers will go out of their way to pull over a car with “north of the Mason-Dixon line” state plates. Seriously. I had NJ plates while in school in VA and got pulled over a few times! I spoke with my NJ State Trooper friend and he said “Good luck! They’d give ME a ticket down there!” Once I got VA plates, suddenly no more traffic stops. Hmm.
Virginia is the worst for unreasonable cops.
A lot of drug traffics (not to mention tobacco products for the huge tax differences) on I-95(several others but that is the biggest), so out of state tags raise suspicious, not saying its right but that is large part of it.
@@ablemagawitch I take 81 for less congestion, but it is what it is. I'm sure it happens there as well.
I had a PA state trooper pull me over because he said the factory spoiler on my Evo 8 was illegal. I told him that was false, it was a factory option and has passed inspection multiple times. He held his ground and said he was going to let me off with a warning and that I had to remove the wing or he would stop me the next time he saw me.
“Well, guess I’ll be seeing you soon then, officer. Have a good night”
Next time, ask him for a "contact" card. That has his name and badge # on it. Then call the watch commander at the station and tell him you want to file a complaint. He'll ask why and you tell him. Then he'll try to talk you out of filing a complaint, but he'll be on notice that the officer is being a public relations hazard.
@@napoliansolo7865 What's that going to do in a nazi state like PA?? Remember, this state elected a DEAD person.
My cousin and I was following my brother and he was on his motorcycle. We watched a police car pull him over and he said his tail light was out. Not true as my cousin and I saw it was working. Of course he was free to go but he was leaving an area from a parking lot next to a bar. He didn't have anything to drink. But the police man was fishing and making up a reason to pull him over.
I've long accepted that the laws are such that the cops can pull over anyone they wish, at any time. Literally everyone speeds, for example, and it's almost impossible to avoid all the discretionary laws. I don't think it's functionally possible to avoid the police having reasons to pull over, ticket, or even arrest anyone they wish, and I think that's the point of the laws.
as you hinted at its beyond that, they can just pull you over and claim you broke one of the near infinite laws and you have almost no recourse. maybe you can win eventually in court but by then plenty of damage is done
Its called a "police state"
@@farzinp8277 that's a bit hyperbolic while I agree US police have too much power and overreact in some cases a police state is much different than that.
Not true. A lot of what the guy in the video says is true. I drive 30k miles a year, and haven't been pulled over by a cop in over a decade.
@@gotham61 your personal experience isn't really enough data to mean anything
I got pulled in to a random roadside vehicle inspection, that they sometimes do in Ohio. I had a clear cover over my license plate to keep it from rusting, the officer told me that that was illegal, did not give me a ticket but told me to remove it. The kicker of the whole story, I bought it at the BMV!
Random roadside inspection? Sounds like officer harassment
@@andred7415 Ohio, I think, does not have the annual inspection that other states have, so I think this is their process to ensure vehicle safety.
@@typeon3g4t1v3lol neither does michigan and we dont have nazis checking our papers on the roadside
Texas also does not allow clear license plate covers.
@@andred7415 basically the way it works is usually two or three officers will be set up in a parking lot, and if you're lucky enough to be driving down the road they will walk out into the road and point at You to direct you into that parking lot, they do an inspection of the vehicle, which is basically lights wipers muffler, etc takes less than 5 minutes, and then they let you go, and possibly give you a Fix-It ticket if there's a violation. When you leave they walk out into the road and then get the next vehicle coming by. It really is a random chance occurrence if you get pulled in or not.
I've seen these many times but in my 30+ years of driving is the first time I've ever gotten pulled into one.
I’ve had more than one cop friend tell me that it’s virtually impossible for any human being to drive down a public street and not give an officer a reason to pull them over. Whether it’s speeding, weaving, license plate frames, mufflers, or the 1.8m other civil infractions you can break… they said, if they want you, they’re getting you.
It's interesting that if you're driving perfectly straight with no weaving at all, that's reasonable suspicion that you're driving under the influence of cannabis.
I check all of the lights on my personal vehicles monthly. It’s real easy to get in the habit. I check them on my work vehicles daily, and I wind up repairing something semi major a few times a year, mostly on the trailers we pull.
Where I live the police love to pull you over for one of the 2 tag lights being out. True story I had replaced one and the very next night was pulled over for the other light being burned out. Luckily I had the package with a spare bulb in it and the receipt where I had just bought the lights the day before and the officer let me go with a warning as it was easy to prove that I had just replaced one and that I had in fact recently checked.
Another thing they like to do here is pull you over for a dirty tag. Which seems logical except I live in a rural community and they will pull you over in the rain right after pulling off a dirt (mud) road. The last time it happened to me the officer said that I should get out and clean it off before entering the highway. I went to court and the ticket was dismissed but what is said here is true they indeed will pull you over for what seems like a mundane reason and look for more.
We had a neighbor, a CHP captain, who would occasionally light my dad up. When he did, he would walk up with a thermos and ask if dad wanted a cup of coffee. They'd sit on the tailgate and polish of a thermos of hot coffee that way. The first time Dad said it almost gave him heart failure. When I asked why, he said, "never mind."
I got pulled over recently for riding my motorcycle while in a standing position.
I went off that time.
They've also been known to claim that you have to put your foot down while stopping.
Bruh wtf? So you have to sit and feel every bump on your balls at all times then drag your feet whenever the light turns green while Chuck fuck and his goddamn truck floors it at the light?
The whole system is a racket. I believe there should be a police presence on the roadways, but the only time they should engage in traffic interdiction is if there is a gross violation, eg: somebody going down the freeway doing 120mph during rush hour; or somebody doing 50mph in a school/residential zone; or a vehicle turning right out of the left hand lane; or other examples that put the public at risk. These are examples that definitely justify intervention by the police in the public interest. If a vehicle hasn't engaged in any act that could be a danger to the public, than their should be no stop. All of this frivolous code enforcement is nothing more than using the state's authority for revenue generation (extortion).
The police have better things to be doing. They're being used by the corrupt politicians and governments. I'd rather see my local police officer hanging out at the local hot spots drinking coffee and having a nice conversation with the locals. Establishing good community relations and keeping the neighborhood safe, not being used to nitpick society for every nickel they can manage. The drug war and using police as revenue generation are the two main causes of friction between the public and the police. And the disastrous results are obvious and endless in scope.
The issue is also the fact that they tend to only care about speeding since that's easiest thing for them to enforce. All they have to do is sit on the side of the road idling holding a speed gun. What about left lane infractions. What about people being on their phone? There's so many things they could be doing to make roads safer and more pleasant, but they choose not to cuz they're lazy. My second ticket I got was literaly because it was the end of the year and they had to fill their ticket book to make it look like they did something. Three to four officers were parked up in this area sitting waiting to pull ppl over.
Road pirates and privateers as far as I'm concerned. Police have pulled over new unmodified cars claiming all sorts of crazy modifications in certain places (Cali comes to mind).
It's a job creation scheme!
The UK doesn't have nearly as many patrol cars and nearly nobody gets shot.
And is all coming out of YOUR pocket 🤣🤣🤣
Texas cracked down on much of the road side extortion by requiring the fines be paid directly to the state vs to the municipality that issued the fine.
@@2000freefuel My Brother was ticketed in a smaller town in Texas. If he mailed in the ticket and payment (Check with the name of the Justice of the Peace in the "Payable to" line) it would not go on his record. This was several years ago.
For myself, the most common reason for being pulled over, is having a canoe on top! The cops give all sorts of reasons; driving too slow, staying too close to the edge of the road, driving at exactly the speed limit, all things that cops use as an example of driving while intoxicated, but the only thing that was common in all the stops was the canoes on the top of the truck!
No cop is going to use driving at the speed limit as probable suspicion or write a ticket for it. There was one other obvious common factor in all your canoe stops: you. It's time for a little self-examination.
@@larrysmith6797 oh yes they definitely do, there's plenty of YT videos of this.
On the 2 cars I've purchased from a dealer the first thing I did when I got home was remove their plate frame and the dealership card that is in the license plates place until you get your actual plates. In Oregon we get paper temp tags that hang in the back window until your permanent plates come in the mail.
5:15 Every now and again, just prop your phone up somewhere, start recording, and test your lights. For those of us that are a bit on the older side, it's really easy to forget that we have that capability.
Lots of people have backup cameras now. Back up close to a wall at night and hit the brakes. You'll see the lights reflect off the wall in the camera and the side mirrors
@@therealmaverickx You can also just reverse into a parking space in front of a storefront with glass and look at the reflection
@@darraghjackson8200 That's what I do. You don't even need a rear view camera. You can see the lights clearly through your rear view mirror.
I still use store front glass windows at dusk/night as mirrors to test the lights
I can see the tail lights lighting up the lines on the highway, and brake/ signals light the road surface, and I'm driving a glorified k car.
License plate lights. I have a 1968 Beetle that I recently hot-rodded and restored. It had been continually registered and inspected since new. I discovered the license plate light had never been connected and was still sitting in it's holding clip from the factory.
Funny thing is, I clipped it in and installed a new LED bulb....and got pulled over for having the wrong color bulb! Apparently its got to be white or yellow here in New Zealand, mine was blue.
Tint is the biggest B.S. law there is! I live in Texas. It can get to over 120 degrees in a car here on a mild summer day. I absolutely will not have a vehicle without tinted windows. The most disgusting part about the whole window tinting thing is that you cannot find a police car in Texas that doesn’t have illegal tint on it. Cops will write a lowly peasant hundreds of dollars worth of fines then jump back into their patrol car with 5% film all the way around. …and 20% on the friggin entire windshield! It’s just gross.
never understood how a cop can give someone a ticket on tint when their cars have friggin limousine tint on em. I had a neighbor that bought an old police car from the auction and would keep getting pulled over for tint when THEY should have taken it out since it was "illegal" for civilians....
Remember that when you sit on a jury and the defendant is a baconator or a politician. ACAG All Cops Are Guilty.
Buyer beware. Police don't have to make a vehicle "legal". It is the new owner's responsibility to do that.
Would you want to walk up to a car as a officer and have no idea who or what is inside?
Or distracted driving.
Cops constantly looking at their computer screens and not the road!
Someone told me a long time ago, only break one law at a time. Sounds like municipalities are making that an easy rule to break
Does expired registration and an out headlight count as 2?
What about me emissions being up?
@@Sausketo the rule is more to do with the them of getting pulled over while you shouldn’t have been driving. If you’re going to drive around with an expired tag and busted headlight better not be under the influence or transporting illegal substances.
But if it’ll get you in extra trouble having the two things at the same time, yes it breaks the rule
@@Sausketo good luck!
My car’s fuel system is tripping a check engine light. Luckily my county stopped emissions testing this year so I don’t have to spend hundreds fixing something that doesn’t affect anything
@@honkytonkinson9787 lucky! Im almost certain my cat is bad, and its in a hard to reach spot on my car
In 2005 I was pulled over in Palmdale, CA at midnight by a LA County Sheriff's Deputy. He said he ran my Wyoming license plate and nothing came back. Back then, flat or unembossed plates were fairly new. The deputy thought I had a homemade license plate. (I had lived in California for the previous 41 years and had never seen an actual Wyoming license plate.) I shined my flashlight on the plate to reveal a vertical row of the State of Wyoming Seal holograms.
The deputy still thought it was a fake plate. I took out my cell phone and asked the deputy if he'd like to call the police chief of my city at home or on his work number, or the assistant chief, or any of the four police sergeants or 18 sworn officers at home or on their police issued cell phones. Before the deputy could say anything, I called the police/sheriff dispatch in my county and where the dispatcher recognized my voice. I asked her if she could teach the LASD deputy how to run a Wyoming plate and handed the phone over. At this point, the deputy was totally embarrassed but listened to the dispatcher's instructions: County number followed by "passenger" or "truck" or "trailer" as spelled out on the plate followed by the number. As in "County 1, Passenger, Charles 123." The plate came back registered to me! I'll bet the deputy hasn't seen another Wyoming plate since.
Excellent advice! Some cops will make up /lie a defective equipment excuse to pull you over. I had a Portland Or. city cop try exactly that. (This was late 80s early 90's) The officer pulled me over and asked for D.L. Reg. and proof of insurance. I said sure and pulled out my license and handed it to him while asking politely why he pulled me over. He said license plate light.
Now, years before in Washington state I was ordered to attend probably every drivers improvement class they had. The last class I took was a class for "Habitual Offenders". The instructor for this class got up in front of all of us and said, "you've all been convicted of DWLS (driving while license suspended), and it's obvious that you're going to drive whether you have a license or not." I sat up and started paying attention. "so I'm going to teach you how to drive and not get pulled over. #1: check your equipment! Lights, headlights, tail lights, turn signals and the most infamous of all, the license plate light. You can check your brake lights by backing up to a wall and stepping on your brakes. The important thing is to not give them an excuse to pull you over!". This was in the late 70's. He taught us a lot of other things like don't go to cruising areas, don't drive like an idiot etc. But for this story when the Portland Or. city cop said "license plate light." I stopped and I said to him that before I got in my car I had checked all my lights and they were working ( I had). Then I said I haven't turned off my car and my lights were still on. And then called his bluff by saying "now if I get out and check my license plate lights they'll be working won't they?" He sheepishly said yes and I reached up and took my license back from him and told him "this stop is over." And drove away. My two friends in the car were stunned. What!!?? I said he broke the law and had no reason to stop me. (probable cause)
Back in the late 70's, early 80's when I took that class I got out all the paperwork and tickets I had collected and did the math. From the time I first started driving when I was 16 (1971) to the time when I was doing the math, (1981) I had been legally able to drive a total over all of 6 months or so, and not all at once. When I turned 26 in 1981 the state of Washington DMV sent me a letter stating that I was a habitual offender and they were suspending my license for 5 years. The DMV made it clear that it would take no less than an act of God for me to get my license during that 5 years. It was then I decided to move to Ca.
It just so happened that on March 06, 1982 at about 3:30am I was a passenger in a car being driven by a drunk driver. Long story short, we went off the road in the delta region between Sacramento and Fairfield Ca. and center punched an oak tree at about 60mph. I spent the next 7 1/2 weeks in a hospital, with 60 pounds traction on each leg, with 2 broken legs due to compression fractures in the femurs, broken ribs, broken pelvis and a broken ankle in my left foot. After 8 weeks I was put in a partial body cast and flown up to Harbor View hospital in Seattle. There they corrected the many mistakes a doctor in Ca. had done and 4 weeks later I was released confined to a wheelchair for a year and then crutches for 6 months. I did a lot of PT and got out of the chair in 6 months, but I was still on crutches for 6 months or so.
While I was recovering on crutches I started thinking about getting my license back. I called the DMV in Olympia and requested a hearing. The person I talked to said that he couldn't imagine the circumstances where I could expect to get my license back. I told him that I was pretty sure I could convince him.
I showed up to the hearing with 28 X-rays of my legs and hip, the newspaper articles of the accident and hospital records. The reviewer showed up with 3+ pages of my driving record. I got my license back. I was crippled and walked with a cane for 14 years til I got a total hip replacement when I turned 40. I was 6' tall before the wreck and 5' 7 & 1/2" after. I turn 68 in July of 2022 and I still carry the scars (physical and mental) from that accident.
I love your channel and watch a lot of episodes. I just wanted to say "Car guys have car stories and my story is one of those."
Thank you.
Number one way to avoid being pulled over: have your chauffeur wear his state trooper uniform
Wrong. The officer won't see the uniform until he pulls your car over. Thinking can be painful, but try.
4:51 in IL, if you let your registration expire, they suspend your DL, even if you have multiple cars. They want that money.
FUKKKK IL!!! Ca AND Wa, if you were working on your car, and waited to renew tags because you weren't driving it, in wa & ca & (others? ) if you go to renew it 1 week or even 1 day before the renewal date comes due- you have to pay for the last year-, AND the knew year which starts tomorrow, gov's are soo effed up greedy law breaking org.
I live in said cursed state, it doesn't fucking surprise me, only place that seems worse to live would be Cali
I live in ks and we can run "year plates" meaning if you have a classic car you can legally use a plate thats the same yr as your car is.....i cant tell you how many times ive been pulled over just because the cop cant figure out how to run it threw the system to see if its legal or not.....i show them the registration and theyre normally ok have a good day.....
You would think most officers would understand that classic cars are treated much differently and get lots of exceptions to rules and not even pull someone over for a plate or a bulb that doesn't exist. Easier than looking dumb for pulling someone over for having no reverse light or seatbelt or an antique plate then realized it's because the vehicle isn't equipped with one, and the plates were legally issued.
@@eliwilson3902 well the issue is is that alot of people don't realize you can run a year plate....its different then the normal antique plate so from my understanding it has to be ran different...also the little plate scanner cant read em and if you get a rookie that dont know how to run a 60 yr old plate it can happen.....they never hassle me about em once they see the registration for it....after that normally want to shoot the breeze about the car.....iv even had people at gas stations tell me how "illegal" a 1962 plate is....i just chuckle and say ya i know....ya the seat belt issue is never brought up nor is lack of blinkers on my stuff from the mid 30s to early 50s....all the normal didnt have things they dont ask about but the yr plate caused me to get pulled over more then once.....
@@stevenhagebusch9561 I'm also pretty sure most states don't do the year plate. I think in Illinois where I live we have that but I'd imagine most the country doesn't have that option.
@@eliwilson3902 i believe your correct i dont think many states do the yr plate thing.....i just like em because i feel makes the car look more "correct" then a standard white antique plate does.....
Do older vehicles have to adhere to noise levels like a historical vehicle lets say 70 hemi cuda will never pass that test. Also with all the law suing in the USA can a tinting company be sued for putting illegal tint in a car.
Nope
Usually not, but some communities have absolute dB limits. Consider large commercial trucks, which may exceed some normal noise limits, but still not be tolerated in a residential area if too loud.
I remember being at a driving school(due to a ticket I earned). I saw an interesting traffic law in the City of Tempe(AZ). Now this was over 30 years ago, so who knows how the laws changed. But it stated, driving lamps are not to on over 25 MPH. This has stick with me over the years, these days with led headlights. Being in a sports car on a freeway and a big truck has all his lights on behind me. I really do wish that law was everywhere and strictly enforced.
What are driving lamps?
Blue headlights use to be illegal also, basically every new car made would be illegal. They could only be that dull off white due to the fast and furious car era with all the ricers running HID’s. Now cars come with them. Wild
@@Kremithefrog1 I think he means fog lights.
Most led sealed beams don't throw a low beam pattern, they just cut the power back on the high beam to make them cheap.
Then guys can't see with unfocused light from the dims, so they get light bars and fog lights.
Some trucks (cough volvo cough) have blinding low beams from the factory. And newer chevy/GMC have a row of LEDs right under the edge of the hood, it doesn't take much of a hill or load in the bed to shine see the reflection of each segment in the reflector when up in a truck.
I cant ride in a factory-led explorer at night. The low beams are so bright, and have enough blue in them, the light reflecting back off signs set up at cab-level to a semi hurts my eyes.
Holley has some led sealed beams they get from Morimoto I'd like to try, the color is pretty close to a halogen.
I had an officer write me an unsafe tire for each tire on my car and a tint ticket for each window I had tinted.
He’s no longer with the force. Can’t imagine why.
Cmon, don't be that guy on bald (or worse chinese) tires.
I have no problem with tinting the back windows but why would you tint the front? Why would you make it harder to see out of your car? What's wrong with wearing sunglasses?
@@bwofficial1776 I can’t stand wearing glasses/sunglasses, and makes me sweat around my eyes and the glasses fog up easily
Remember: Compliance is not armor, Compliance is camoflage.
i’m so glad i don’t need to worry about registration stickers anymore, he’s so right about the equipment shit, i got a ticket bc one of my windshield wiper arms broke so i took the broken one off and adjusted the driver side wiper to wipe the entire windshield as best i could but got the ticket for not having both wiper arms
Who would do such a thing to a Mcgiver?
I wonder what that cop would have done if he had encountered a Mercedes C230. Those only have one wiper and a piston that goes in and out as the wiper sweeps.
@@michaelbujaki2462 lol if it was the cop that pulled me over def a ticket, i drove away with more than just that equipment ticket, got one for driving too fast for conditions bc i passed him to exit the highway and it was wet out bc the rain had just stopped and noise violation bc my music was super loud lol it was like 4 am and a tint violation as well 🤣 lost my license for a year bc of the driving to fast for conditions ticket bc i was already at the limit for points on my license and that one point that ticket gave me put me over and automatic loss for a year and i went out purchased an audi station wagon in silver and blended in well for that year and drove every single day of it too
This is why I love living in New Orleans. I was driving a 1989 Isuzu Trooper down the highway with no working brake lights, no plate on the back at all and it was open header. cop pulled behind me and I barely thought twice about it because NOPD truly couldn't care less about traffic stops. followed me for maybe a half mile and got off at his exit.
but that won't happen with the "Harbor Patrol" officers who are corrupt and more abusive. Its been a couple decades but they have jurisdiction like 5 or 10 miles inland from the water, which was the entire city of N.O. and most of the surrounding state.
Preach. A lot of, um, alchemical entrepreneurs would do well to make sure their ride is nondescript and completely legal.
Nebraska makes a lot of drug arrests after pulling someone over for speeding or driving like a jackass.
I believe if they would just drive in a fairly straight line at or below the speed limit, they'd all get through.
Here in Sweden most people of newer cars drive whit their taillights off during the night, since they don`t come on automatically anymore, like they used to do in the past.
For several decades, Sweden had a law that the headlights and taillights must come on automatically when the car is started, so now when many people buy newer cars, they still think that the lights will come on automatically, but they don`t, this is such a big problem in Sweden, that even radio broadcasters tell people to check if their taillights are on.
so far this really follows a personal view of mine. don't give them any stupid reason to pull you over. if they're going to pull you over make sure that there is a story to be told afterwards!
The sheriff in my county in FL) is all about searching for drugs. Every time I read about a drug bust here, it's almost always because of a brake or tail light out, or not using a turn signal. The plus side is that they leave the rest of us alone for the most part.
Thankfully, Pennsylvania eliminated the need for registration stickers on the plates. Though they will run the plates with the readers and tell if someone's plate is expired. But not ha having to deal with the sticker is great.
No such Luck they rescinded that, as too many people stopped renewing their tags.
@@2000freefuel hasn’t been rescinded yet. They were talking about it around this time last year, but from what I could find the penndot site still states they aren’t required
@@2000freefuel NO THEY DID NOT! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT DUDE!
Great advice. I got pulled for the trailer hitch example once.
daily i reverse my car into a parking spot with reflective glass that i can see my lights every night, not a hard thing to set up for most people, just reverse park at a strip mall or similar once a week to check the rear lights
Same. This was something the DMV tester asked me to do during the driving test when I first got my license. Wasn’t part of the exam, but bonus info from the examiner that put me at ease.
Yeah, I live in a trailer park (don't judge me; I'm not wealthy), and the skirting on the lower portion of the trailer is a nice, reflective white plastic. At least once per week, I'll back into my driveway to see if the lights all still work, just out of habit.
It amazes me how many people don't understand this!
Every time I pull INTO a strip mall, (nose-in OR back-in) I make sure the lights are working! (Reflection in windows).
Even being behind a truck with a somewhat reflective rear!
I guess it boils down to PAYING ATTENTION and CARING if your vehicle is appropriately equipped!
If I'm feeling generous, it's because "they didn't notice", when in reality, it's because "they don't give a rat's A55" !
@@GMan-yv8cb Yeah, Yeah............ Tell it to your wife. Tell her to just back in from now on. See you @ the body shop!
@OceanDriveSpeeder
You DID notice that I said, " I check MY lights..." - KEY word: " I " --
Not expecting anybody else should share my lights obsession!
CERTAINLY NOT HER !!!!
😄😅😂 😵💫
Me already knowing my car is illegal: “first time?”
0:43 Nice GTA V screenshot
As a test, I drove my jeep Cherokee without plates for 6 months after buying it (I had the plates in the car). I wasn't ever stopped.
With my 240sx, the consignment lot I bought it from messed around with transferring the title. The little dealer plate and 2nd plate ran out and that car got stopped regularly (no tickets issued, though) until I finally got the plates.
Solid gold advice with the lightbulbs out. I have been stopped a total of 4 times in 22 years, every single time was for a turn signal bulb and usually in the back
Paper tags, no catalytic converter, excessive window tint + full windshield✅ I am set. Still never ticketed for either by AZ police. Although I was pulled over and let off for speeding.
I wouldn't ever go catless, just because of the smell alone. Regardless of whether you care about pollution or not, it's just awful. A lot of times it's toss up whether you smell the exhaust or hear the crappy pops and bangs tune first when one of those cars is coming.
@@sethmoyer I moved from the Los Angeles area to Arizona. You best know I took that cat off ASAP lol.
Yeah but Arizona is like a wild west for cars lmao
@@loganclaproth If you drive that TT that's in your profile picture, I'd be really surprised if removing the cat even helps anything.
@@sethmoyer with the K04, a catless downpipe makes a great difference lol. what do you drive, Seth? lmfao
Great advice. I got pulled over once for a rear brake light not working. Thankfully I was going to the dealer anyway so that worked out for me - the officer was good about it when I mentioned that and also showed him a couple of items they were fixing.
Was it a Hyundai Sonata? I swear, every one I see has at least one brake light burned out. It's the official car of how few brake lights do you need anyway?.
@@bwofficial1776 No it was an Acura Integra.
So your rear brake light was out, what about the front brake light?
Where I live, they forgot to put an "s" after brake light in the law. That means we only need one brake light!
I got a bill in the mail for a toll charge recently with a picture of a three wheeled motorcycle. My motorcycle has 2 wheels and at the time 90 miles on the odometer. My riding skills are minimum and don't travel out of the neighborhood. The photo that accompanied the bill was not showing any clear picture of the license tag but instead my license tag number was used in the written description in the bill. I never paid it. I called the office and basically was ignored and not taken seriously. The local toll reinforcement of Florida does not need proof and can send anyone a bill even if its not your vehicle. They think your going to pay it rather than risk any involvement for three dollars. Totally dishonest and wrong. I expect this to be an issue when i go to trade up and find a stoppage of some sort placed on my registration. Total Bullshit way of collecting money.
Great Video, Comment on Lights in the Fishing state of Florida, always check trailer break lights and hazard/turn signals flash before leaving home. Always interesting to see the other trailers on the road no break lights and/or no license plate (still at the boat ramp.)
Have to say I've pulled a trailer without lights a couple times. It was a flatbed so you could still see the car's lights and I never got pulled over but "they worked when I left the house Officer!"
Don't BREAK your BRAKE lights either.
with civil asset forfeiture, they can just pull you over and take your car
in reference to the tint meter, I can see how a gradual taper in the darkness would render the meter test unusable.
When I was first getting into the automotive industry I was working at a Chevy dealership and a Chevy impala came in with tail lights and I think headlights not working everyone in the shop try to figure it out so I asked if I could look at it because no one can figure it out it was a slow day so all the master mechanics were gone it was my first test for electrical and stuff tested all the relays went to the fuses and found 2 to 3 fuses to be bad after I replace those fuses found out one of the wires was bad fix the wires replace the fuses all the lights are working again. It’s funny how a few fuses can screw up an entire car
I had a Chrysler mini-van at one time. It was loaded, power vent windows in back, fancy stereo with name brand speakers, etc. I was driving around one day, and noticed that the rear speakers weren't working. No big deal. Drove the van every day. After about 6 months, my wife took the van somewhere, and when she got home complained loudly about the horn not working (her favorite controls are the gas pedal, break pedal, and the horn). I made a mental note, and told our mechanic about the horn. When I got the van back they said that the horn was just a blown fuse. Cheap fix. I got in the van and fired it up, and the rear speakers were working again. They ran off the same fuse as the horn! I had driven that van for six months without ever using the horn. My wife drove it once and noticed it right away! When someone gets in her way, she always 'lets them have it' with the horn. Good thing cars don't have actual weapons!
Thank you for this, lived in Florida and have learned all of this first hand
When I was a LEO we called these stops Freebies.
Love when my son leaves a blunt in the ashtray 😂
Drove 3 yrs on revoked license. EVERYTHING I DID HAD TO BE PERFECT! The car had to be perfect.
Never got pulled over.
in my country, registration costs only about $100. I send a text message to someone with my plate number and pick up my registration the next day. No inspections at all. But I make sure myself that my car is in good condition and everything is working well for my own safety.
The fact that he saw a 2020 Range rover with a broken tail light didn't surprise me
They all use LED lights, so it can only be a fuse or a loose connector.
Lucas Electrics, Prince of Darkness.
British car three position headlamp switch... Off, Flicker, and Dim.
I seen a 2022 suburban with a nonfunctional taillight already.
When I get pulled over for speeding, the cop ends up writing me up for a tint ticket and I get away with the speeding completely. So yeah, I'm keeping my illegal tint for sure.
Come to Mississippi...
Penalties: Fine up to $1000, or imprisonment in county jail up to 3 months.
If the cop really wants to charge you.
@@konglee7284 lol.... nobody is going to jail for tint. But still, why would I ever be in Mississippi? That's like being in the middle of Idaho. Sorry, no reason to ever even think about being in places like that.
It's usually from the same cop that protroll that area... He/She knows your vehicle. I'm pretty sure it's the third time...
(usually for a second or third violation, granted) and can lead to a sentence of up to three months in jail, or even a jail sentence and a monetary fine.
He's probably stopping you for DWB, not actually for speeding. Her tint that allows them to see that you aren't DWB and you'll probably not get stopped at all.
In 1983 I purchased my first new, off the lot vehicle, complete with factory tinted windows. I then took a vacation to do some fishing and camping. I was pulled over in Colorado and the officer said the window tint on my vehicle was against the law in Colorado and wrote me a ticket for it. I contacted a lawyer who made my court date for me and got the ticket thrown out since the vehicle was legal in my home state and the tint was not added, but factory.
They don’t need a reason. They’ll just lie
That's what I heard a few times.
Most of them pirates don't even know laws.
Yea, I've got a loud exhaust, tinted widows, tinted headlights and tail lights and no front license plate (required in my state) and has 450 rwhp. I breath a sigh of relief anytime a cop doesn't pull me over
A lot of people with classic cars just do whatever they want. I knew a kid in high school who got pulled over clocked over 100 on the way school in his 60s mercury and the cop just gave him a warning and said he liked the car. I actually hear about this a lot.
Honestly, if you aren't driving like an asshat, they usually just say "cool car" and keep drivin.
@@eliwilson3902 my high school buddy got pulled over doing 135 and got out of it by saying he was going to the hospital to see his dad. His dad wasn't at the hospital...
Grand National, dark tinted windows, head light covers, tail light covers,slicks ,smelly race gas,no cat exust, resanaters no mufflers no front plate required in my state (Ks at the time)when running vanity plates ran my club tag on front.
Got pulled over told my car was a rolling violation and and a list of tickets I could have received. The reason for the stop ?
My vanity plate was VETEATR earlier that day I pounded his sargents ZR1 vette twice at the track and he wanted to see v6 that bruised his muffin so bad.
Said he loved my car my plate and he wouldn't change a damn thing ,be safe lol. 2 hours later leaving town to go home the ZR1 Sargent gave me a ticket for unsafe equipment slicks on the street. How ever M&H race masters are street legal ( barley) and ticket was dismissed. I haven't been to Salina Ks in 20yrs go on vacation leave on probation lol
What about people road tripping from other states with lax laws or other countries and their car would violate laws in the state they’re driving through?
I have wondered about that. We can have pretty dark tints in Florida that aren't allowed in states further from the equator, but I still haven't tinted mine because I'd like to travel with it.
@@coastalcoyote I am a Canadian with a custom ‘89 Mercedes Coupe I daily drive, Ford powertrain, all old-school with a carburetor and no cats or anything and of course pretty loud. I wonder about doing a US road trip in it…🤷♂️
@@CarswithNash If you bring it through Michigan, I doubt anyone would look at you funny, except to ask questions about it.
If anything, they'll pull you over for having a license plate with a design they don't immediately recognize.
I had a former FL State Trooper tell me EVERY car on the road WILL FAIL what's known as an "On Site Vehicular Inspection".
It may be something extremely minor, but it will.
Basically put, if a LEO wants to give you a ticket, you WILL get a ticket.
What happens after that is up to you.
Back in the 1990s and 2000s my dad received several tickets because his completely unmodified and restored 1978 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am was "too loud". It actually was just as loud as it was when he bought it at the Chevrolet dealership back in 1978. The Trans Ams and Z28 Camaros back in the 70s were actually known to be louder than every other new car out on the road at the time. Also, he used to get pulled over a lot back in the 90s just so the cops can take a look at his car because it was such an icon (obviously illegal to do that now). I remember in August of 2012, while we were at the Trans Am Nationals, a cop pulled us over, refused to give us a reason for the stop, and proceeded to take a picture of the trans am and the police car on the side of the road because I guess he wanted to feel like Buford T Justice. He got back into his police car and drove off.
"Don't break the law while you're breaking the law" is very wise advise
Glad my dad was a cop. Iv been smart with this stuff before I could drive 👍🤙
Thanks for the info!
Thanks, this was a really informative video. Can you please repeat this video but do it for other countries like the UK, europe etc.?
1:54 - any time I go to buy a new car, when the dealership tries to put those license plate frames on, I tell them "no, you cannot do that, not unless you pay me a $500 advertisement fee"... they look astounded... one even insisted that I just let them put it on until I drive off the lot, and I said "no... would you like to cancel this sale right now?" ... they caved in.
i do the same exact thing, i tell them to take that trash elsewhere. unfortunately the temp tags tend to blow around a lot, so now i just make them put it on backwards so it holds the tag down but cant show their ad
I'll take a plate frame over a dealer sticker on the rear any day.
@@20JK10 dealer sticker is a big no-no. Never.
@@rarelibra - I remember back in the 60's when my Dad bought a new car, the dealer advertisement was a badge that required the dealer to drill 2 holes in the trunk lid to mount.
@@Kryten428 those days are long gone. In the 80s, the dealers used badges attached with the stickers. Then in the 90s or so, dealers switched to the license plate frame.
Most of us have some idea 😂
I was once pulled over to notify me of a burnt out license plate bulb. The kicker is, I know that bulb was working when I left because I had just checked them all.
They should teach this in school. Not Driver's Ed, school. So many people don't know these things and so many accidents and pullovers could be prevented if people just knew this kind of thing.
Don’t break the law while you’re breaking the law.
One of the best vinwikki's of all time! Keep him coming back! Good job, Ed.
I know of one case where someone raised the vehicle, Rolled it and the insurance would not pay because the center of gravity was change with the lift.
You show a PA plate with stickers. PA stopped issuing reg stickers several years ago. Too many plates were getting chopped by persons stealing the reg sticker. Thanks for reminding me to check my reg expiration date.
Lol, like a cop “needs” a reason to stop you….
One note: If your modifications are legal in your state, other states must respect that legality under the Supremacy Clause. In numerous Vinwiki and other videos you see people being pulled over for things illegal in a state they're passing through by driving, but aren't illegal in the originating or licensed state. The drivers often receive tickets for these violations. However, those tickets are non-enforceable if the modifications are legal in the originating and licensing state, and this is the case with few exceptions (under carriage lights being one of those few exceptions). So if tinting at a certain level is legal in your state, but illegal in a state you travel through, the state you travel through cannot enforce their law on you, they must respect the originating state's law, etc. This fact often trips up people who travel with modified cars, or cars with decals, tints, etc. Quite often any ticket you receive outside of your state for an "illegal modification" in that state where you've travelled to, can be dismissed with a simple motion to dismiss based on the Supremacy Clause. You simply write to the court a motion to dismiss citing "These modifications, under x section in my home state of x are legal. Under the supremacy clause, your state police must recognize and accept the legality of these modifications as my vehicle is not registered in, nor housed, nor am I resident of the citing state." and the courts will dismiss the citation.
Nice! Good info.
Good points! I got new plates for my 25 yr old car (original plates were peeling & sun-faded), JUST so they would not pull me over for hard-to-read plates.
My province no longer issues year stickers, they just send you an email to renew your registration about six weeks before it's due to expire. I foresee lots of Albertans being pulled over in other jurisdictions for 'expired tags'. Oregon Supreme Court really throttled police 'trolling' for minor infractions to justify searches. No questions not DIRECTLY relevant to the reason for the stop are allowed. It will force police to be more creative I guess.
A few years ago a co-worker got numerous tickets for the factory fog lights on his Mustang being mounted too low, hey not his fault, blame Ford.
I check my lights in my garage
Glad in my country it’s the same rules nationwide. All these differences between states must get confusing especially if you travel about.
Or if it’s legal in the state you’re from and in another state where illegal is that ok?
Generally it takes the laws from the state you’re from if it’s something about the car itself but from the state you’re in if it’s something like speeding, making right on red when it’s not allowed, etc.
Yes it can be legal in one state and illegal in another. The reason is because our nation values State's Rights... Meaning individual states don't want the federal government getting into their business.
Remember that our individual states are more akin to countries in size/population/geography compared to places like Europe.
Brake lights can be checked by backing up to glass and seeing the reflection. Turn signals need to used for the bulbs to Burn out. In the case of noise if they don't have a dB reading can they ask you to rev it up get a dB reading once they have stopped you.
I used to travel to Nevada for business meetings. Highly reflective polished aluminum plate wouldn't be too much tinting in Nevada. I'm not sure why cars don't melt out there.