Epa

[OFFiTS]

Hey Guyz,
I recently got a letter from the EPA saying that an UNDERCOVER police officer had reported my VN ss as 'far too loud'. I had to take it to a place to get it tested within a certain period of time or else I would have gotten a massive fine which could lead to court etc...
My car is a V8, so it is a little loud, but nothing compared to my brothers torrie!! I'm a 'P' plater and I freak out every time i see a copper cause I shouldnt be driving my car... but I think it is way un-fair that someone can do that to ya!!
I got my car tested after I had to go out and get a cat converta cause mine had been hollowed, but in the end run it costed me like $390 because of some bastard!!
I agree with people dobbing in litterers' but does anyone agree with just getting a letter sent in the mail... i think i would have rather been pulled over by the coppa!!

[deserthead]

Did the cop actually test the decibels of your car with a meter? ? ? ?
If so was its calibration current????

And if this "undercover cop" didn't use an approved measuring device, then they dont have a leg to stand on!!!
I'd be asking to see some sort of print out saying exactly how loud your car is.
And I'd also be asking for a current certificate of calibration on the machine. . . .

But then again, if your not meant to be driving said vehicle, then Id keep my trap shut and cop it. . . .
More fool you for driving something your not meant to. . . .

[OFFiTS]

My car past the test... i was 3 d.bells under the limit!

[mattman]

I'd just be happy they didn't pick you up for running with no cat... instant $2k fine.

[Boonz]

mine wasnt.... it was 8 over with 2 new mufflers and a new cat.....

[dephilile]

How do they test it? fully redline your car and stand about a metre behind your exhaust with the db tester?

[clixanup]

but I think it is way un-fair that someone can do that to ya!!

Yeah. What gives cops the right to do their job?

I got my car tested after I had to go out and get a cat converta cause mine had been hollowed, but in the end run it costed me like $390 because of some bastard!!

As someone else mentioned, if he had pulled you over the fine would have been far greater.

Running with hollowed cats decreases power output, so it turns out this guy did you two favours.

You did the wrong thing & got busted. IMHO you got off lightly. Live with it.

[Blown V6 Hatch]

I have had this with my vn too!! But my car was 2 db under and i didnt change a thing for the test. But worse i got a letter sent to me from victoria police to present my Torana at a police station within 7 days for a roady inspection or i would be prosacuted!!!! But all turned out well as the copper was really good and didnt pick a thing, but he probably could have if he wanted to be nasty!

[vlv8vic]

yep get over it. you shouldnt be driving it, let alone with it being unroadworthy.

[tezron]

to the best of my knowledge,EPA laws allow anyone (Not just Coppers) to submit reports if they feel like it. EPa Then follow up just as they have done in this case. Probably sucks but thats the way it is.

[tr3nt]

Your car must have pissed a few people off, the way im sure the EPA work is they have a hotline which you ring up and quote the registration plates of the vehicle, and the disturbance ie: blowing smoke, noise etc. If there's maybe one or two cases of the rego they'll pass it off as maybe someone's trying to get someone in shit, whereas if they get enough complaints, they'll follow it up like they did you.

[Tasmaniak]

in the words of our great moderator Julie.

Cry me a river.

[ucwepn]

I have heard of this happenning to people before and not being dobbed in by police being dobbed in by just normal people. My friends VH SL/E 308 was dobbed in and we all knew it was far too loud and it was only a matter of time, I have an exhaust on my vl and I know I will prolly get done for it soon enough coz it is quite loud.
( I have the stock exhaust to go back on tho)

But if I get done I'm taking that green EL V8 down the street with me coz it f#cken shits me ho0w loud it is and he just rips it up and down my street.

I have been EPA'd for my torana for not having pollution gear on it and it took 6 retests before they took the green canary off.

[coolngroovy]

Yet the ss is probably quieter than 'most' Harley exhausts!

[Stretchomatic]

yer but who would u rather pissoff, a commodore driver or a dude with a chain in the back bag of his 'hog' and fifty m8s on call...nah harleys do get done fairly often, but only when they r loners...

[ucwepn]

The cops get told to "lay off the bikers" because....... well we know why,

firebombs anyone??

[coolngroovy]

Maybe we should try & put some Harley Davidson stickers on the doors of the commodore? "What is it son?" "A Fatboy officer!"

[vlv8vic]

the harley debate has been done to death in here. Search if you will but lets not get into it again here.

[Devious Jet]

The letters sent by the EPA all say an under cover officer felt you car did not comply to Emission laws. Yet you could have been dobbed in by anyone. I had my car all engineered with it's modifications, yet the EPA still knocked it back, I passed the emissions test with no problems yet the EPA STILL knocked it back as the car was not 100% standard! The car had to be as it left the factory or they can not be 100% sure that in varying conditions, unlike the conditions at the test station, that the car will still comply to the rules. So after converting my car back to totally stock, and producing higher emissions, it was passed cos it was stock.....go work that one out!