any advice on tickets? GTA ontario canada

alcheng

your case, or your "convictions", is not speeding, stop-sign, careless driving or stuffs that can harm the public.

it's more like if you don't have the insurance paper with you or have the expired one but you actually have insurance.

just show up at the court, explain to the judge politely, show him you've make changes on the tint and the cover.

did you buy your car used? if so, did the person/dealer who sold you the car told you the tint is legal or you were told it is legal??


About the front plate.... see if you can pull off a good reason...

if you already have ticket(s) about the front plate before, not sure if they will use those records but those screws could get loosen, so you might have to buy new screws and you thought you don't feel safe to have the plate mounted with loosen screw thus it was off for that particular trip to Cdn tire....

something like that..... maybe it works.... good luck....

Zeetah

i bought the Z new.
i didnt quite understand what you meant by "not sure if they will use those records"?
i was going to change the tint anyway bc its really hard seeing at night with the 5%, but i can leave the rear hatch the way it is right? atleast thats what he said for 4 door cars.. but ill show them a pic of the window "clear, without any tint"

as for the front license plate, ill put it on and take off the rear clear cover, and ya i stopped by work then went to cdn tire, and was omw to another cdn or home depot to buy screw caps and he didnt care.

what i dont understand is why he didnt just give me 3 regular tickets of $114 each and why he gave me 3 tickets with no fines on it and tells me to fix all 3 issues and show up to court in 4 weeks and theyll toss everything away. and does anyone know what happens if i put the covers back on and i get stopped next time? or if i install my SHOW n GO which another cop 3 years ago told me to buy when he stopped me and didnt issue anything, will it be a huge fine or worse?

does anyone here drive without the front plates? i love my Z and how sweet it looks without it, but now im screwed.

thanks for the suggestion man, hope it helps

Akinari

Jesus which part of GTA are you in so I can stay the **** away.

As far as advice/suggestion goes, I think the cop was probably having a bad day and went to town with you. Also in the GTA having ANY sort of cover ANY part of the license plate ( not including the stickers ) is illegal. Like others have said, most cops don't bat an eye on the covers but it's something they can nail you for.

As for the license plate, you're SoL on that one, it's an auto write up for the cop. Move to Quebec if you don't want front lic plates.

I'm totally speculating here but, I think he might have seen a note for the week before in their database. The summon he gave you is basically an ultimatum for you to fix everything and prove it to the crown, sucks that he also threw in tint and cover.

imho, don't give them any reason to pull you over in the first place and you'll save yourself a lot of headache!

Zeetah

it was near lakeshore and carlaw. very true with your last sentence, i didnt know about this, i thought it was just going to be a ticket for the no front plates and im not sure but he only said my last infraction was in 2015, not sure for what tho, so who knows if the cop from last week put anything in the system, another person said they dont write down warnings on the comp like when they pull up your plates, only the tickets youve been given the last few years or so, but ill have to ask the guy across the street thats a york region cop, im sure its pretty much the same as them.....

sooooo stressed....... i hate the front plates lol... i can live with the front plates but the no cover too now ? damn province, i want to start a petition for the no front plates like our other provinces but i doubt many ppl even care...

tints gona be a hassle too.

ya he was definitely pissed about something to hit me with so many tickets, especially when the last infraction he mentioned was 2 years ago.....

im never taking small streets again, i was going north and he was going west, we both stopped at stop signs and literally a second later he got me.
so stressed and confused as to why he went nuts with the tickets.. ugh..

does anyone here NOT have front plates? and or covers?

so if this gets tossed out and i do it again, then what happens? i wont but im curious. the only thing i would still want are the covers, wish i could show you a pic of how clear they are... i took pics during the day and in the pitch dark with only the moonlight and no street lights and you can still see my plate next to another car with no cover

ZCanadian

This. So this.

I wonder if the 407 cameras have a hard time with reflections off clear plate covers and that's why it's such an issue there. Are they as aggressive about peeling plates?

Just another reason to avoid the GTA altogether. I'm happy in my little corner of paradise down here!

Zeetah

ive gone through those scanners a number of times and no issues reading my plates.

Ire

If its the end of the month. just disappear for a bit.
cops know cars are a huge source of income so they hit us hard.
only way to win is to not play the game...

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Zeetah

Ya I'm going to put the plates on and stuff today..

Nixin

It would be wiser for the police to be stopping criminals and not collecting revenue for the city/province.

Zeetah

But they won't even get any money if I do all 3 and they throw away the tickets, I would have had to pay 40% if I went to court if he gave me a normal ticket and that way they could have collected money from me. Maybe this guy was just super pissed about having to work on a nice Sunday

Zeetah

But they let me go 9 out of 10 times and never even mentioned the tint or cover.

Only the following 4 provinces require both (in order of population):

Ontario
British Columbia
Manitoba
New Brunswick
The following 9 provinces and territories only require rear plates:

Quebec
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Nova Scotia
Newfoundland and Labrador
Prince Edward Island
Northwest Territories
Yukon
Nunavut

I'd love to start a petition