It is a bogus charge,you don't need recon for a loud exhaust.
What Dave said about not having any way to measure decibels is true,it's all subjective.
The Sheriff's have nothing better to do,that's all it is. Fricken harleys blow under Nimitz all the time,you wanna talk about loud,thats loud!!!
It all goes back to the image thing,you drive a car thats immediately labeled as a "racer",if its loud that just makes it worse for you!!
I would fight it if my car was just running an exhaust,and the rest was stock!!
Now if I got pulled over in my car,then everything that gets thrown at me is probably deserved,seeing as "street legal" is a very fine line with me!!

 

hey thanks for all the feed backs. i guess i was just at right place at the wrong time. Just going to court just take too much precious time out of my day. But the next time i get cited for sure i'll give u a pm, Dave(Haole_Pino). so i know wut i would say to the judge. thanks everybody.

 

yes but the law says if it's audible within 30ft/yds whatever. i'm not saying the law isn't bogus, but if you're rockin an rsr then you know you gonna eat the ticket sooner or later. and just for the record, i would happily take the ticket to drive yo car fran.....beast

 

damn dude! that sucks big time! fkn wannabe cop! hope everything works out!

 

you're lucky he didn't cite you for your sti wing like me, lol. i have a recon permit and this cop still gave me a illegal recon because of my cf trunk. he also tried to look for more areas to give me a ticket because according to him my car is "highly modified". he eventually gave up because he can't identify my other highly modified parts (hint:none).

i politely took the ticket and fought it in court via a written letter. judge dismissed the ticket. all i'm saying is, you are innocent until proven otherwise. if you think you have been wrongly accused, then fight it. if you know(and admit) that you are in the wrong, then pay it.

 

Ha Ha!!! Yeah!! I keep thinking I'm driving on borrowed time,hope I didn't jinx myself!!

 

its not like i was trying to weasel my way out of anything. i wasnt racing, i wasnt revving. i was going home after work. gotta admit the state has some very vague laws. offficers themselves often confuse which items are recon or not.

 

if you want to get technical anything louder then OEM is consider grounds for failure on safety check and recon but thats up to the officer or inspector to determine what is to loud and what isnt. hawaii doesnt have a db meter system.

 

qtp exhaust cutout anyone? btw had an sti pull in a few months ago. we were gonna pass it until we heard an exhaust leak, which fails. we looked under the car, and lo and behold there was an electric cutout! its cool for stealth but it doesnt pass inspection yo. itll even state it behind your s.i. receipt, so be careful!

 

i just had my ewg dump re-routed into the dp the other week and will get recon for my "stock looking, sleeper car" just to save the harrassments of idiot cops.

 

EXACTLY...Dave stop doing stupid **** and you won't get pulled over for it ;P

 

LOL, Even if I parked my STi in the garage, covered it, took the battery out. I would still somehow manage a speeding ticket in the STi. Thats how bad my luck with the law is......As a matter of fact, I've recieve at least 4 tickets in my life were I was the passenger of a vehicle, and I, not the driver, recieve a ticket.....

Heck, a little over a year ago, I recieve a parking ticket in my own driveway. I even posted up the whole story here in HIIC, went to court and fought it, and won.......

 

Wtf?!

 

Hawaii really suck having loud car ... do Harley gets tickets ?

I used to drive my Clio Gr.N on public road.
It sounded like that almost:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBmMf...eature=related

Never got a ticket... this is why french law are stupid.
You will get a ticket if you have cellphone in hand but can make crazy noise.

 

Same here, started July 1st, no more cell phone in hand...