Getting pulled over too much

[shadetreemechanic]

Ok so I stumbled across this thread warned for speeding - at the traffic lights??
And it got me thinking, what in the world's all this intel they talk about??

Lately every time I see a cop they pull me over for some stupid 'license check'
Any chance some tosser dobbed me in for flipping them the bird when they can't merge properly and this happens regularly over in the west as you probably know. Are my plates bringing up a damn red flag everytime they scan them?

I don't think the car itself attracts attention, she's stock as a rock

[Big_Simmo]

Cops over here are too obsessed with looking at themselves in the mirror

unless you are doing stupid shit I doubt u will have any issue, might just get breath tested more often in the booze busts thats bout all

[Shedvl]

. Are my plates bringing up a damn red flag everytime they scan them?

I know the feeling, I get sussed out with my car and my plates, then they see my age and relax a little. I do think they unfairly target a lot of P Platers. Not all P Platers are hoons...but in saying that a lot are, and they dont have the driver experience to back it up. Some of the female P Platers are shocking drivers. Driving skills usually improve with age ( usually lol ) I do think there are hoons in every age group though.
If I have 1 more young female fly up behind me in their Suzuki Swift and tailgate me...its not going to be pretty
I dont think the police should assume that people with nice cars, are there to street race or do the wrong thing.Most of them dont wanna waste their fuel or the rubber on their expensive tyres lol. Im only driving a V6 and Ive had people at the lights revving their engine, trying to push me off the lights...I just let them go ahead.Especially one set of lights where I know the police love to sit up around the next bend hehe.. Wow they beat me off the lights...my day is ruined

[vkberlina]

It depends When I first got my car there was a car same model, same colour, similar numberplate driving in the same area apparently doing drug runs, bunouts and generally getting up to no good. I used to get pulled over quite alot they would look in the car see it was spotless have a chat breath test me and send me on my way. I found out afterabout 8 months of this what was going on and I was left alone.
once they wanted to have a good look around the car asked what was in the boot I said spare & jack opened up the boot they had a little poke around in the guard wells say how clean the car was and formed the opinion they had the wrong car pretty quick.

Scott

[discomat]

If I have 1 more young female fly up behind me in their Suzuki Swift and tailgate me...its not going to be pretty

So when the next young girl tailgates you in a Swift you will get out and start punching them? I call your bluff sir! Unless you post a pic after doing it

[AirStrike]

Do you have a picture of your car? You started a thread about being pulled over not too long ago, most likely related.

[VT-565]

Do you wear your hat backwards?
Do you have a unit sticker on your car?
Do you look at the police nervously as they go past?
Do you have a massive stereo playing flat out all the time?
Do you ferry around car loads of mates?
Do you corner erratically?
Do you race people at the lights?

All contributing factors.
I know a police are invisible to young people, it comes with age.
There is a time and place for everything, until you get all that in the right order, be prepared for more 'random license checks'

[Kieran263]

I'm on green P's, 1 demerit left, and I've only been pulled over once since I've been driving.
Oh crap I just realised I need to put my P's back on my car hahaha

[minux]

I am doing an experiement at the moment proving an idiot cousin wrong. He claims police target P platers for fun, I claim police target wanker looking cars and owners not P platers and it just so happens that many P platers have this look lol. In 2 days have been past 6 police cars, on one occassion sat in front of a police car. Still not been pulled over.

Point is, my claim must be correct and if you are being hassled you either look like a wanker or your car loosk like it has a wanker owner

[Shedvl]

So when the next young girl tailgates you in a Swift you will get out and start punching them? I call your bluff sir! Unless you post a pic after doing it

Lol youre right..It would take a lot for me to be violent....and when you have personalised plates and people remember them, you learn to grit your teeth otherwise next time that person sees your car, its a target

[KimiClaire]

I get pulled over for RBT's all the time... Doesnt worry me as I know I'm not doing anything wrong. Just grin and bear it. Unless your drink driving... then your screwed

[acex1138]

I am doing an experiement at the moment proving an idiot cousin wrong. He claims police target P platers for fun, I claim police target wanker looking cars and owners not P platers and it just so happens that many P platers have this look lol. In 2 days have been past 6 police cars, on one occassion sat in front of a police car. Still not been pulled over.

Point is, my claim must be correct and if you are being hassled you either look like a wanker or your car loosk like it has a wanker owner

I had dramas with a local cop who kept picking on me. Went on to p2's..... got pulled over that week. Got my a Calais the week after.... without P plates on it never got looked at, even got waved through RBT's which had never happened before...

1 week out from full license went to court for what he charged me with over a Year and a half before it, won and still got knocked back to P1's as a penalty, as when you enter court you handover your license so you cant do a runner.
DMV counts that as having your license pulled so knocked back to p1s.... the day after having to put p plates back up on it, went back to my usual license checks.

Whether im driving my stock as a rock VT calais, my WRX clubspec, or even until recently my work car which was a mitsubishi canter, get pulled over atleast once a fortnight, every RBT I go passed always get called in.

It comes down to the cop, some are allright, some do pick on p platers. And in all seriousness P platers do need attention, but the way its done at the moment nearly any offense can render you with a loss of license, restrictions etc. its not the way to do it.

With how it is atm, its 'oh shit its the cops'. If its really about creating better drivers the system does need to be changed.

Im all for our local bastard cops going after your ########s doing mainy's in the pulsar with bald tyres, chopped springs and tryna do burnouts, defect their car, take half their points away making them afraid to go outside their lane without indicating for fear of losing their license. All for that.

Not for being pulled over one day for a license inspection. Then it happening the next day by the same cop who even remembers you, and just wants to see your license again...

Not for a cop saying the p plate wasnt fixed at an angle he could see from being alongside your car... the usual crap you hear my crowd always on about. It does get pretty unfair sometimes.

I will not drive through campbelltown here because of this treatment, the cops from holden hill prey on kids there hoping their next pullover is going to lead to a drugs bust, and if they dont get that they get you for whatever else they can think of.

You go to marion, the cops down there are mostly top blokes, was with a mate who just got his p plates and had a crappy Toyota he'd got off his mom we put together, first time he took it out got a flat in traffic, cop could have booked him for any number of things, helped us push it to the side and change the tyre, (this is going back about 4 years ago). Another friend lives in hallet cove, on her way to work up the southern express way and her p plates blew out the window, heard hundreds of times this happening and cops booking them, he let her drive to the next servo to get them.


Im heading interstate this week, first thing i will be doing in nsw is going to nearest cop shop and asking them for advice on how they want my p plates displayed etc, how to stay outta dramas with 5-0 (what they will target etc), so I know how to stay outta trouble there, especially after my last experiences with the great western highway when i had a holiday in katoomba (being pulled over EVERY day.) Especially that im driving a Banned P plater car.

Second thing im doing?...... getting my FULL LICENSE in qld because they dont recognise SA's arcane laws, then im over all this crap

[ClairBear]

Interesting - 3 kids all been through the P Plate stage.

Daughter: never pulled over, drove various small cars and always displayed plates. Never caught speeding.

Son 1: drives a VS with a monaro bonnet, slightly lowered, tinted windows, twin exhaust. Been pulled over a handfull of times during his time displaying plates. He doesn't drive like a idiot (never been done speeding) and is always polite and friendly. They always had a constructive reason to pull him over, for instance once his tail light was blown. We live near a shopping centre that has a pub and often we have all been pulled over leaving the car park at night after visiting the ATM or junk food shops to be breathoed by random cops that sit and wait in the carpark. He has never been defected or given a hard time.

Son 2: drives a VT that is lowered, tinted windows, 2.5inch cat back. Never been pulled over and is now off p's also. Also never caught speeding.

Interesting though that son 2 who is currently studying law goes on a walk for fitness reasons every night usually wearing a black hoodie and at least once a week has a patrol car pull up next to him asking questions about where he is going/lives etc. To me that is harrasment.

[Critical Jim]

Do you wear your hat backwards?
Do you have a unit sticker on your car?
Do you look at the police nervously as they go past?
Do you have a massive stereo playing flat out all the time?
Do you ferry around car loads of mates?
Do you corner erratically?
Do you race people at the lights?
Do you drive a VL? Applicable in SA only.

All contributing factors.
I know a police are invisible to young people, it comes with age.
There is a time and place for everything, until you get all that in the right order, be prepared for more 'random license checks'

Couldnt resist.

Used to get pulled over a few times a week when I was driving the VL.

Asked why one time responce was the sterotype this make of car attracts here in SA.

Got defected for factory lights twice and dealer fitted tint once.

[304runner]

A couple of years ago my friend was driving my ute once which had P plates on it, and she was fully licensed... This cop has always had an axe to grind with me so I wasnt surprised in the slightest when he pulled my ute over. He issued her a fine for displaying P plates... Yes, displaying them! WTF....

I was speechless!

So my point is, it really depends on the cop IMO.

I ended up paying the fine for her as I knew I would never hear the end of it....

[87RB30VL]

Put it this way, I used to drive a Nissan Silvia with a loud exhaust, blue neons under the car, and a huge sub in the boot, and I got pulled over by every cop who was behind me, many even turned around to pull me over. not to defect or fine me, just to do license checks etc.

A soon as I got my opens, no cops bothered me, even though I was still in my fulleh sick Silvia. Not saying I don't get pulled over in the VL, it just doesn't happen every time there's a cop behind me.

I also noticed that the cops' attitudes changed once I went on my opens.

[GEN3RATD]

when i was on my P's was driving my bagged VX SS with 20's and tint and didnt get pulled over once, in fact never got pulled over in my worked XR6 either.

i didnt drop skids around every corner though

[Essassin]

To me it has to do with when and how you drive. I've had my VY for nearly a year and more recently with exhaust, tint, 19's and a sub and haven't been pulled over once. I put it down to the fact I don't drive like a wanker, and more importantly (IMO), I don't spend my friday and saturday nights driving around with my mates visiting every Maccas in the area and dropping skids in the car parks. I have seen a pattern among people I know being pulled over and defected on the weekends because they were just 'cruising' rather than actually going somewhere at a reasonable hour. I don't really drive anywhere after 9pm or so, with the occasional exception for airport trips or being designated driver.
My P plates are always up, I have the sticky ones so I dont have to worry about them falling off.

[Swordsy]

Couldnt resist.

Used to get pulled over a few times a week when I was driving the VL.

Asked why one time responce was the sterotype this make of car attracts here in SA.

Got defected for factory lights twice and dealer fitted tint once.

Nope, VL's are targeted in NSW as well(especially if they have P plates on them). The cops loved mine when i had it

[commoVT]

I am doing an experiement at the moment proving an idiot cousin wrong. He claims police target P platers for fun, I claim police target wanker looking cars and owners not P platers and it just so happens that many P platers have this look lol. In 2 days have been past 6 police cars, on one occassion sat in front of a police car. Still not been pulled over.

Point is, my claim must be correct and if you are being hassled you either look like a wanker or your car loosk like it has a wanker owner

i totally agree

[shadetreemechanic]

Oh well i guess i just gotta get used to meeting the constabulary every few days or so....btw not on Ps been off em for yonks
I live in a rough area maybe that's it then

[drewVHSS]

It also depends on your vehicles past history bearing the current plates that are on it now.
Although i've had my vh ss for 11 years, i used to misbehave in the early years (on full license) and got pulled over alot afterwards. I sat the car in the garage for a year, got new plates, never been pulled over since. I have black windows, no resonator, lowered 2 inches and a loud stereo system.

I usually buy and sell 4-5 profit cars a year (cheapies i tart up on the cheap and resell for a profit) most never get pulled over.
But there have been a few cars i've had that were constantly targeted:
vn ss : i used to get pulled over at least twice a day despite it being completely stock, turned out before the car was sold to me at gamers auctions it was a bikies drug runner car..... would've been nice to know that before hand, change of plates and it was never pulled over again.
gold vb povo pack commodore: previous owner kept driving it unlicensed, for the 3 months i had it, i used to get pulled over at least 4 times a week (plain boring commodore with no mods, completely stock and in tidy/presentable condition)
I could go on but i guess you guy's get the picture, the cars history is never forgotten with the cops, change of ownership doesn't always get noted by them. however change of ownership and new plates seem to help.

[oska]

don't get me started on this cops target black commodores with tinted windows ...... have so many stories to tell

i'm 46 and it ends at that

[TVR-190]

Ive been pulled over quite a few times. Never in my lexcen, never properly pulled over in the vx (had one walk past come talk to me) only in the vp, which was because i had the unmarked car style lights (in amber). Once they found out they were amber they were cool with me.

never wanted to check out the car. Never did anyhting to get attentiion.

[Cruzer]

I use to drive a couple of "souped" up 4cyl back in the day and got a few pullovers for checks, but as soon as i got my VE ute everytime breath test, was a joke, nearly every week, recently updated to ve sedan and still a couple of times but nothing like the ute...