Illegal driving tips....

Saw the post "I f*cked up my Camaro @ 120" by 94CamaroZ28 and I figured it would be good to share some tips with each other for those of us who frequently street race, or drive significanlty faster than the speed limit. I should preface this by saying that, yes it is "dumb" to drive like that but it is also dumb to jump off a bridge with a life-size rubber band strapped to your feet, but people do it anyway for the thrill. The fact of the matter is it happens. I almost always drive fast. 85mph on the highway is slow for me. But I still consider myself a safe driver. To some (who doesn't understand) this may sound like a contradiction. Anyway, the following are my tips:

When you are speeding:
1-Wear your seatbelt: obvious, but many will forget.
2-when on the highway,slow down when driving over hills: cops like to set speed traps right on the other side cause you can't see them till your within range of their radar. Motorcycle cops often like to sit under overpasses.
3-Watch onramps as you pass by them on the highway:Sometimes (more rare though) cops sit on the on ramp and clock you as you pass. If you see them before you're in front of them you'll have time to slow down.
4-Get a radar detector: the first time it saves you it will pay for itself. Learn what the false alarms sound like. For example, when you drive by certain places it will go off everytime (like clock-work), those are false alarms. Cops in different areas use different types of radar, the alarm will sound differently. Learn about Instant-On radar. If you don't have patience for the constantly beeping noises, don't waste your money. Buy a BEL detector and get one with SWS (safety warning system).
5-Never! Never! run red lights or stops signs. Unless you have a death wish.
6-Remember, you are not the only one with blind spots: especially on the highway. You should always feel vulnerable when you are is someone's blind spot. Bad stuff happens. You'll be amazed at the number of people who only check their mirrors and not their blindspots.
7-If your speeding on the highway (like 120mph) turn your brights on(even if it's daytime)! People are 10 times more likely to see you coming which will keep them from moving into your lane to pass someone. Flashing the brights help too.
8-If you're speeding on the highway (in the left lane, where you should be), getting ready to pass a couple of cars, if the car on your right is also rapidly approaching the car in front of it, chances are they'll want to get into your lane to pass the slow car. Watch them carefully, get ready to brake.
9-Know your streets: you probably take the same routes pretty often. Learn where the cops like to sit.
10-Use a decoy: if your taking a long trip on the highway and there are other people speeding too (95mph, for example), let them get in front of you. Follow them about 1/16th of a mile behind, if cops are ahead, they will clock them before you. Sometimes, there will be a whole group of cars speeding... this is always fun.
11-Try to avoid passing 18 wheelers in the right lane: they almost always get back over there. They know they're slow, be patient.
11- Anticipate when other people are going to brake. Look ahead of the car in front of you. You should be aware of whats in front of them.

Can't think of anythin else I do, right now. Maybe some more later. What tips do you have, if any?

i use tip #10 all the time. it got me out of a very hefty speeding ticket one time.

i was rode tripping with a couple guys last year and a ford escort was trying show me up by riding my bumper:eek7: i set the cruise at bout 100mph and as i came around a curve i saw a highway patrol sitting at the bottom of the hill so i slammed on the brakes. the ford went around my doing about 90 or 100.

i know the cop clocked me first, but i came to an almost complete stop in the rode and waited for the cop to pull out. he got tired of waiting on me and went after the other guy instead :lol:

10-Use a decoy: if your taking a long trip on the highway and there are other people speeding too (95mph, for example), let them get in front of you. Follow them about 1/16th of a mile behind, if cops are ahead, they will clock them before you. Sometimes, there will be a whole group of cars speeding... this is always fun.

^^^ I have a term for that..... "SPEED BITCH" .... that's saved me a few tickets:)

Don't take a flasher for granted. You never know when someone's going to change their mind.

Using the sidewalk as a passing lane is a no-no.

Hit the brakes BEFORE pulling into a parking lot. Nothing grabs attention better than lifting a wheel or two off the ground.

Driving lights are always a good idea if you plan on speeding at night, especially on backroads where wildlife can be unpredictable.

NEVER EVER speed in a school zone..... too much risk for everyone involved. :nono:

I like the idea of sharing tips like this..... if you're going to be a dumbass, do it properly :p

I have to agree with Kevin, [quote] I should preface this by saying that, yes it is "dumb" to drive like that but it is also dumb to jump off a bridge with a life-size rubber band strapped to your feet, but people do it anyway for the thrill. [quote]

You know you blind people when you use your brights?? If someone has their brights on and blinds me and pisses me off i just might want to hit them...

"Speed Bitch" ... lol.. i like that
"if you're going to be a dumbass, do it properly" -lol...this one goes in my quote book

yea.. brights are sometimes annoying. But most of the time you can still see where you're going... so let me see.... annoy someone or total a couple of cars... hmm.. this is a hard one... I'll get back to you on that one.

**#12 dont speed in a red car :(

STREET RACING KILLS

Idiots.

Although when we were comming back form laguna seca last year we were in a group of 2 C5's 2 Audi TT's an M3 and a Turbo Jetta all going 115 for atleast 30-45 mins tell the freeway split up :D wasnt really racing tho, just the "Speed bitch" thing :)

classic

**#12 dont speed in a red car :(
ya :(

the best tip you can practice: TALK TO COPS!!! they pull you over, they write the tickets, they know where they sit and wait for speeders. be nice and talk to em, ask em how they like the job and what they do. trust me, if you get someone talking they will give up information. Sun Tzu's first rule of war: know your enemy...

also, if ya speed, dont dip in and out of traffic. cops dont like that and will be more likely to stop you if you are driving recklessly. a lot of cops that i have talked to say they only really car about excessive speeding, unless the car is endangering other drivers...

**#12 dont speed in a red car :(

my car's only half red, but i still know wut ur talkin bout. i got 2 tickets under my belt... :(

my car's only half red

LOL

the most important thing for any racer is to know your car. you should know whatll happen if you hafta hit the brakes at 110, or whether or not you can make that 10 yard gap to weave through traffic.

damn im must be lucky....ive been driving for about 2 yrs now and have not had one ticket at all.... just one warning for doin 66 in a 40 but i always speed.. i joke my friends all the time cause they all have alot of tickets... it really gets them... its funny

Yeah I Hate Having A Bright Red Camaro It Just Stands Out, Especially After I Wash It, I'm Pretty Surprised How Bright It Is. But I Hate The Fact That Cops Look Out For Red Cars.

i dunno that they look out for em, i would think its common sense that a bright red car is gonna stick out like a sore thumb, especially if its speeding.

oh yea.. as far as tickets go... i've had three speeding tickets, but those were all in my early years of driving, all except for one. Driving through Texas...on the highway, going over a hill, doing 85mph, a cop just happened to be driving the other direction and we came into each others view right at the top of the hill, radar didn't pick up the signal till it was too late. He was going pretty fast the other direction so I almost decided to try to lose him on the next off-ramp, but decided against it, of course, because he just happened to be driving a 1998-02 Camaro SS. didn't stand a chance of loosing him in my V6. I pulled over before he even caught up. "Don't mess with Texas." But I have now gone about 4-5 years without a ticket.

btw, I don't advocate running from the cops, but if you can conviently dissappear and get out of it, good job.

I don't advocate running from the cops, but if you can conviently dissappear and get out of it, good job.


well said

i've been pulled over 6 times in the last 2 yrs and only recieved 1 seat belt ticket, 1 no proof of insurance ticket(got outa that one tho) and 1 warning for 45 in a 25.

nothing is funner that screeching tires when a cop is going the oposite direction then running like hell

when there's a traffic jam, driving in the shoulder is usually a bad idea, cuz a lot of times there'll be a cop in the shoulder, and you'll have nowhere to go

Well I Was Late To Work Like Usual , Well I Was Doing About A 100 On The Slow Lane Because People Were Actually Driving Slower In The Fast Lanes, Well As I Was Driving A I Didn't Notice A Parked Cop On The Shoulder, So I Passed Him Doing A 100mph Well He Turned His Lights On But He Couldn't Get Freeway Because There Were Cars Behind Me, So I Just Gunned It, I Figured I Had A Good Chance Because The Next Exit Was A Little Less Than A Quater Mile, So I Took Off And I Dind't Even Look Back, I Just Got Off And Hit The First Small Street I Could Find And Took Off, I'm Lucky It Was A Windy Road Because Camaros Handle Excellent. Well I Didn't Drive On The Freeway For About Two Weeks Because I Didn't Want To Burn My Self, I Have A Red Camaro And There Isn't Too Many Red Camaros Here, So I Figured He Would Remeber Me, But Hey I Got Away.

SMOKEY THE BANDIT! good job.

Thanks You Get Alot Of Adrenaline Pumping Through Your Body When You Run From The Cops. I Try Not To Make It A Habbit, But Hey If I Think I Could Get Away You Best Believe I'm Running.

I have 8 tickets total, 5 speeding 3 seat belts, all when i first got my camaro, havn't had a ticket in a year and a couple months, i just wait for long open stretches on the freeway to speed instead of weaving, 4 of them were going to school on route 41, always following somebody else, doing 70 in a 55, they get me every time, bastards

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Yeah, there's nothing like the adrenaline rush you get from ditching cops. I wont try unless I know I can get away safely, But I've done it a couple of times. Once in my RT Stealth, I ditched three cops all following me. It was either that or go to jail, cuz I just got done smokin. Slamming on the breaks at about 150 and doing a 180 off of an ON-RampRight after going over a hill. WHOOOOAAAA

Rule # 13: Get a phaser radar blocker and block the pesky porker's vision. They can't give you a ticket if they can't clock you.

actually lowmonte, the blockers/jammers are a bad idea. They're illegal, if you get caught with one there goes any chance of niceness, and you can get a ticket based on the cop judging that you were speeding (i.e. he knows what a car going 60 looks like and what a car doing 80 looks like - and yes that can hold in court)

My friend ditched a cop in a stock civic...cop made a u-turn and went after him, but my friend pulled into a neighborhood and parked in someones driveway, turned his car off & waited for the cop to pass and then went back on his way.

yea, it was a stock civic. I think i'd have a hard time pulling that one off.

yeah speeding tix suck, esp the stupid ones like 69 in a 55 (a$$hole). red is not the greatest color for being one with the crowd so to speak. im suprized he didnt let me go either, 2 years and absolutely nothin on record and i wasnt even speedin that bad. *lil halo floatin above head* o well. besides, im suprized he wasnt suprized that i could get that fast, how crappy it looked back then.

o yeah i just remembered somethin... get aftermarket foglites, aim them so you can see the road well, and if you're gettin chased at nite, cops or idiot people from school, find a hill, pop those babys on, and find nearest hidin spot and chill for a while :D

i thought nsx's came with jamming technology

I didn't read through this whole thing so I don't know if this was brought up. The "speed bitch" doesn't always work... I know from experience! When it comes to red cars its sooo damn true. I had a red car (ford escort) and I got at least 5 speeding tickets in it. After I painted it blue never got another one. And I am yet to get on in my burgendy '86 Iroc, Gold '94 Z, and black '99 Z. Cops did pull me over for a lot of bullshit in my Gold one though... no license plate in the front, and tinted windows. The burgendy Iroc I actually got pulled over for no seat belts once... what the fuck is that? I drive over a hundred everyday to work in my camaro and I have never got a ticket in it for speeding.

oh yeah... 1 more thing. those radar detectors suck ass!!

STREET RACING KILLS

Idiots.

I agree, use your local track , plus you get time slips!

Robert

damn im must be lucky....ive been driving for about 2 yrs now and have not had one ticket at all.... just one warning for doin 66 in a 40 but i always speed.. i joke my friends all the time cause they all have alot of tickets... it really gets them... its funny

It's like Vegas, they will get you eventually!
Robert

well said

i've been pulled over 6 times in the last 2 yrs and only recieved 1 seat belt ticket, 1 no proof of insurance ticket(got outa that one tho) and 1 warning for 45 in a 25.

nothing is funner that screeching tires when a cop is going the oposite direction then running like hell



lol talk about quote book ^^^^^^

It's like Vegas, they will get you eventually!
Robert
opps wrong quote... lol i ment for the when speeding on the sholder one.... lol oh well.....

i never have been pulled over from the back, they have always been parked on the side, everytime i drive i'm looking in my rear view alot, you also got to pay attention to traffic if there's a big gap from your car to the next car behind you, there's a good chance there's a cop behind you, that's why everyone else is slowing down, i started to notice cops park in the on ramp, so you can't see them until it's to late, those sons of bitches,

been driving 2 years now...no speeding tickets...ever...got a warning for 96 in a 55...he let me go...

oh and a far as tips go....semi's are your friend...cop can't rado wahts on the other side of a one of those badass motherfuckers...

WARNING for that? i hate you. lol

shit 2 years driving and ive also never had a ticket except i have also gotten a verbal warning for doing umm 95+ down a main road where the speed limit was.....40....

WTF?!?!
RACIAL PROFILE, GODDAMN NJ STATE TROOPERS... and county... lol

yeah this was a town cop

don't worry my friend (who is from india lol haha!!) got pulled over in his POS 1990 celica b/c the cops thought he stole the car since he was doin 85+ in a 25 but got off with a warning b/c he had no radar lol

heh im half indian, half puerto rican/spanish/french/irish/other, and my mom (indian) was adopted so i dunno i could have more mixed in there... hell i'm a walking UN (+ balls)

DON'T SPPED IN ARIZONA - PERIOD. Those cops are BASTARDS! but if you are a cute girl in Palm Springs, speed all you want...the cops will just ask you "hey...huh huh...is your hair really red?" then they'll ask you for coffee. lol

lucky... i want cuteness and tits so i dont get tickets. uhhh... well.... :-/

yeah, you'd want them solely for the purpose of not getting tickets, right?? lmao

and for the record, they are "ta ta's", thank you very much. lol

hoo hoo's

it was officially voted in as ta ta's. so no reference to jugs, cans, fun bags, or the like. :p

i have little ta ta's

oh shit i forgot about that. my bad.

My personal favorite is the time I was following this Prelude on the highway. We were both doing around 95 in a 60 and passed a cop on the other side of the highway. She noticed it too and pulled into a housing edition, I did a U-turn at the next place. I knew the cop would do one too to see if he could catch one of us so of course I passed him again. LOL, the best feeling ever -- seeing him look at you as you fly by doing 120 while waving at him. Man that was great.

I agree with Grease Monkey Girl.
Having boobs sometimes gets you out of tickets. I've been pulled over 3 times in my entire driving years. Once for having a taillight out, I got out of the ticket for that one. Once doing 106 in a 60 in my truck at 3am, got out of that one. The cop just walked up to me and said, "what the hell are you doing, do you WANT to die today!!" It was kinda funny. He just made me "promise" him I wouldnt speed again. (yeah right :evillol: ) And the last time was for going 136 in a 60 in my 300ZX right after I bought it (same area as the last one, but different cop). He just told me to slow down :lol: .
Mabee it's the boobies, mabee it's just because I am not a smartass to the cops, I really dont know. I haven't been pullled over in almost 3 years now! (knocks on wood)

goddamnit!

way to go Karen! milk it for all it's worth :)

i have little ta ta's
as long as they're not bigger than mine, that's not a problem ;)