Defect Station Rant

[thirteen]

Friday night after I left Concord i headed into the city and went down george street to see if any nice cars were out before dropping my friend home.. only to get signalled into a defect station the police had setup towards the rocks.

now firstly, i always assumed the police who were setup at defect stations had specific texts which they shud check to see if a car is legal.

the policeman asked if i had any modifications, i only told him about the wheels and the exhaust. but acted nicely the entire time.

anyway, one of the other cops was having trouble opening my bonnet, i stepped out (although i was meant to stay inside) coz i didnt want him to screw anything up and he asked me to show him the latch but i just opened it for him anyway, a female cop then came over and they were just sorta staring into the engine bay.. with sorta blank looks.

the cop that had pulled me over seemed okay, and i think thought i was okay so didnt bother checking my exhaust levels.

the conversation then went:

Policeman: "what car is it?"
me: "a vectra."
Policeman: "nice car, any blow off valves?"
me: "er.. no its not a turbo?"
Policeman: "we dont know man, we are just doing our job"

isnt it their job to know so they CAN defect actual defects :?: :!:

[low astra]

cops are smart dude, i like it when the pull the " how do you get your spare wheel out when you have a flat?"

[Nem]

If they dont know what a BOV is for then how are they able to ascretain that its legal (http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/resources/vehicle_noise.pdf) or not? No wonder there's so much "interpretation" of these laws. :roll:

[RK]

Hehehe. thats funny stuff :lol:

[R3N]

Policeman: "nice car, any blow off valves?"


yes actually, 4, wait 5 including the spare :screwy:

[thirteen]

i should have sed yes i have a blow off.

and he would go "can u show me where it is?"

[sri guy]

thats funny man. these stooges are looking after the safety of nsw citizens how safe do you feel now people :?:

[Namus]

hard to tell whether they were faking it or not...they can't be that stupid...surely

is that a FMIC?

err...no, that's my radiator... :bang:

[thirteen]

he seemed pretty serious to me.

[Alfonzo]

That's freaky. Recently I had a dream about getting defected for a BOV in my Vectra, and nothing I said could make the officer actually realise that an N/A engine couldn't have one.