My Date with Traffic Management (long post)

[LoBelly]

Originally Posted by Plums

... Is this because your vehicle is on club rego, or can any car be asked to front up for an inspection???

With the restrictor plates in was it still too loud, or did they have some other problem with it??

I believe the process is the same for any car - it seems that I was the first of the Club Rego type the officers had encountered.

With regard to the restrictor plates - I think I heard one of them go as I was driving to the assessment. The car wasn't 'loud' but there was a lot of 'radiant noise' (?) coming out of the sidepipes from the sound of the exhaust rattling around in there. (you'll note that I even turned the tips of the exhaust under the car to direct the noise there)

The cam has a bit of overlap and the engine sounds nice but that makes it hard to shush up.

... Not that I'm a vindictive type but I'd be trying to ascertain who made the complaint

I suspect that it was another police officer - early January there was a cruise night in Mornington and my brother and nephew (20y.o.) took the car there, at the time it was missing (as it turns out) the baffle from the RHS - i.e. open pipe. The event was full and they had to park next to the police hummer

I imagine that the sight of 20yo guy in a car like mine being as loud as it was just created too many ticks in the wrong boxes - ultimately we knew it was too loud and to be fair created the problem for ourselves.


LoBelly