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Originally posted by Kaneto
I'm going to wait till I see something a little more official. Otherwise, I'm saying the cop was full of shit.
Read the laws, find out what's legal and what's not. There really isn't a whole lot that's illegal. In general altezzas, lowering, etc. isn't illegal.
Intakes, lights, lowering, doesn't create an actual safety hazard in and of itself. Yes, people who mod their cars out tend to drive more recklessly than people who don't... but you can't ban the mods themselves, because if you do you are, in essence, stereotyping.
There are special cop "task forces" that target street racing. They go to races and find out who's there and what they're driving, and they get them that way. They did that a couple months ago here in San Diego. That's all they can do, though.
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See, the cop kept on accusing me that my lights were illegal. My STOCK '00 red/white lights, he didn't believe that they came that way. He straight out told me altezzas are illegal-even though some cars have them stock? But he told me that there can't be any white lights in the rear except for the reverse lights and the lights that shine on the lisence plate. It's a "safety hazard".
I know that there's these undercover cops that go out to the races, but what he was talking about was just cops that go around during the day, pulling over 'street racer' cars as he called them. He said that they're getting special training to go over imports specifically and look through the engine on site and determine what was and was not legal.
I mean, I completely agree with you, and I'm really gonna try to research this more in depth.
Oh, he also told me that if I get pulled over for my white light bulbs in my rear turning lights again, that my car will be towed on the spot, because he had "advised me on the violation" (he wrote 'advised on white bulb violation' on the ticket as well). Can they really do that? He told me to go straight home and change them, and I told him that I was on my lunch break and I had to go back to work, and he was like, "well that's a chance you can take, but if you get stopped for them, your call will be towed on site"
Is that really true?