I was pumping gas on my 2011 C2S and I accidently drop a 10mg VIAGRA in the gas tank and suddenly the spoiler engage, and I said to my self wow this car is really hot and can fly.

 

Thanks for the insight. What about people doing 90 or 100+? And what do you think the policies of most officers are? Just wondering what the man (or woman) behind the stern face is thinking when I get pulled over.

 

A good chunk of my commute is through a town with 45mph limit on a 4-lane road. I wasn't paying enough attention once and got zapped with laser at 61mph. Went to court to see about a reduction (school, etc), and the place was packed. Mostly speeders, mostly 16 over. One or two at 15 over, and some at higher speeds, but I was amazed at the consistency. I got to the court bit late (or right on time, not early) and it was first-come, first served, so I got to hear most of the infractions. Now I got 14 over all the time, and a bit more if I know it's safe...

My ticket was reduced based on first offense in that town. $250 and nothing on my record. It was all revenue generation in that case. I think that's more common these days.

The worst part is that I had (and still have) laser jammers in a box on a shelf at home. I need to get off my *** and get those installed!!!

 

Typically for those kinds of speeds just plan on getting a ticket. Somtimes the officer will write you for a little less, but that's pretty rare. When we returned to the office at the end of the shift we'd often talk about the one you got for 90 or 100.

 

I'm never worried about it. With all the different types of spoilers they have for our cars and how rare they are usually seen on the streets, I don't think anyone could tell if thats just how they are unless they actually see it move up or down.

 

OMG! That's the same reason why mine is always up!

 

And I thought it was the car itself that was the 'little blue pill'.
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If you were still on in California you'd be writing...a lot. All these failing municipalities are using law enforcement as revenue generators. Just the way it is and it will be that way until they can get out of the red. In NYC, the number of different agencies that can issue you a ticket in connection w/car ownership is ridiculous and the more obscure the agency the more aggressively they enforce.

As to whether an NYPD officer would know that you may have been speeding if the wing came up, I know at least 2 that I drive with who would. That said, they'd be cool enough not to hassle you for such BS.

 

Hooo-llleeee crap!!

 

lol...:d

 

Fortunately with CHP, we were never pushed to write the amount of tickets that the officers that work for the city have to. Where I work now, I can see the motor cops writing tickets on the stretch of highway outside my window. I've worked here for 14 years and have never seen a accident on this straight stretch of road. It's not about safety, they're just generating revenue for the city. It's a damn shame. The funny thing is, they only write tickets in the early morning M-F. If it was a safety issue they be here all the time.

The motor cops get pressured to write tickets from their command staff who are pressured by the police chief because he's getting pressured by the mayor and the city counsel because the city needs money. The cops end up being the bad guys.

 

I agree. Not only do they spend their day watching mundane cars go by, so they take admiring notice of cars like ours, but most LEO's are young enough to enjoy reading about cars as much as we do. Of course they know Porsches go fast and I'd say a fair percentage could even guess correctly that a movable spoiler goes up at illegal speeds. How many know it goes up for engine cooling as well is arguable. Lots of P-car owners don't know that I suspect.

None of which is relevant. It must be thirty years since anyone got a ticket "because I could tell he was speeding, your honor." Cheap radars and lasers mean that honest jurisdictions won't ticket for speeding without one or the other unless special circumstances apply. (They use aircraft on some of our highways to clock cars between known waypoints. That's just another way to precisely measure speed and is the sort of thing I mean by special circumstances.)

A few years ago, some guy with an NSX got a ticket in south central California. An hour or so later he got a ticket at a northern town 130 miles away. (Or so they say on the NSX forums, but I think it's a sports car myth personally.) I'm sure a judge annoyed at fast drivers could take judicial notice of the distance between those points and find for a prosecutor trying to take the guy's license, but even if it's mythical that's just another way to measure speed.

In the seventies, I'd just come back from overseas and had to make a lunchtime run from Vandenberg AFB to Santa Maria. Just outside that latter town, I got stopped. In uniform no less. They were nice, and so was I of course. ("I just got back from assignment in Europe and wasn't watching my speedometer as I really should.) The sergeant who'd been called to join the party reduced the citation to ninety because he said the speed at which the original officer followed me from outside the base gate was jail territory. ("And you in uniform. Tsk tsk.") The relevant point is that he wrote on the ticket how many cars I passed in that ten miles before the stop. (Not many. It's a remote road. But he counted every one, damn it. 14, as I remember.)

Even forty years ago, the lack of any measurement except following speed weakened a ticket. He kept track of cars passed to show a judge my speed was clearly excessive, albeit not measured. Nowadays with all the onboard radars available, only a LEO assigned to some other duty with a non-traffic-enforcement vehicle could explain to a judge why he didn't provide a specific measurement.

Tickets without a measurement of some sort smack of whimsical enforcement these days and fighting one shouldn't be very tough. "His spoiler was up" ain't gonna cut it. On the other hand, with a measurement saying "it goes up from engine temps" is definitely useless.

Gary

 

Since I was in military service through the Vietnam years, I never thought otherwise. That's why I try to be nice even when I'm getting a ticket I deserve. Same guy might be pulling me out of a burning car next week.

Gary