Pat, your post made me smile. I find as I get older (and some may say more mature...) I'm siding more and more with the police officer's view of a stop. I've also found that doing everything you can to make their life easier pays dividends.

 

The only two I know of are .. comptech and vortech, and both are legal indeed. Sorry i had to pull it.

 

[QUOTE]wonder why so many peeps think it's cool to make turns and change lanes without using their signal

 

Was the tint withing the legal limts? If so, that was BULL$%@. If the tint on my vehicle is within the legal limits, I could care less if the cop might be a little skittish. If you can't handle walking up to a car with tinted windows when you pull it over, DON'T BE A COP.

So he supposedly "cut you a deal", whatever. No way a cop is going to let you off on ALL those violations by just stripping tint he doesn't seem to like... unless he knows they are utter crap and he can't REALLY pin them on you.

I'm just sick of police screwing with people over the stupidest little issues. They pull me over for the aftermarket exhaust on my other car, yet they let Harleys drive by that make my ears bleed, and ignore monster lifted pickup trucks that sling rocks with their 40" mud tires and break the windshields on ALL my cars on a yearly basis. Who's really the one creating a problem?

<rant off>

 

Is it possible the original poster was refering to all cars not just the S2000? I don't really know myself. I'm assuming there are other manufacturer's of superchargers for different types of cars that a cop in California may encounter. Are pretty much all superchargers for all types of cars street legal in California? I was thinking he meant that a cop wouldn't know that only Comptech and Vortech make a CARB legal supercharger for the S2000.

 

The cops here in CA write tickets for everything. CARBed or not. It's useless unless we fight back.

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I find it interesting that the specific law states that you have to signal before changing lanes IF "any other vehicle may be affected by the movement". That's sort of a big "if". It seems to mean that if no one is around, you dont actually have to signal, although if a cop is around to see you not signal, then I suppose at least the cop could have been "affected by the movement". It's sort of like "If a tree falls in the forest..." But if no other cars were around and the cop was pulled over to the side or something such that he would not be affected by your lane change, then maybe you could make a case on this point. I'm not a lawyer and I'm actually kind of stupid, so I would be interested to hear a lawyer comment on this issue.

 

We don't really know all the specifics of the exchange between the driver and officer, so I dont want to take sides. But, from the report here, it does seem the cop was unnecessarily harsh and went beyond his bounds (this is where I make myself a liar and actually take a side). Telling you to take the tint off right away is administering justice on the spot, which isn't his job (reminds me of Judge Dread), even if he pretended like you would get off of some other offenses by doing that (that was just BS to get you to do what he wanted). Plus, the additional comment of 'pop the hood, you got a supercharger in there' shows that he is profiling you, which is illegal. I have alot of sympathy for cops though, their job sucks balls. They are constantly walking the fine line of being too harsh, or being too lenient (not 'profiling' someone and then having that person drive home drunk and kill someone), or of getting shot while writing a simple traffic ticket.

 

Not true, as far as i know here in FL, you have every right to deny them the search. you might get harrased but you still have every right

 

This is great info!!!