Tickets!

fairladyZ34

i got pulled over like 2 weeks after i intially got the car in mid august during my first week of school. the road is a two lane on both sides but still a 45 and everyone does 55-60ish but the cops like to hide in the bush. he picked me out and i got failure to show insurance card which is 0points and no fine but he noted i was speeding on the ticket. i ended up paying the speeding fine of $190 and got zero points. so technically if a cop ever ask me in the future i can at least say i havent had any speeding tickets

1slow370

in the z one ticket it helps to be gray. 120+ in a 65 he couldn't gage my real speed fast enough before i started braking and he was almost a mile off but yeah i was hauling ***. 15 day suspension, 480 some odd dollars and 6 points. I think it was a win moment because i was greeted with "congratulations you are officially the fastest person i have ever picked up with my laser" talked my way out of being arrested, he was surprised as hell when i told him that i started accelerating a little bit before he picked me up, and that i could brake fast enough that it couldn't read my real speed before i was back down to 64.

Before the z boy thats a list. within the last couple years 2 15 overs for 12 points, and a 60 over in a 35 that i talked him down to unnecessary use of speed which is only 4 points, got a lawyer and had that reduced to defective speedometer(it wasn't) wich was 2 and 120 dollars + 400 for the lawyer. lost the license after all that for 6 months but they gave me an occupational which in wisconsin means that they don't really stop you from doing anything. You can only drive 12 hours a day to church, grocery store, work, school, daycare, hospitals, and a few other places i'm sure i'm forgetting but when pulled over it is easy to say oh officer i was headed here or there.

ricky bobby

im sure its because of those nice rims

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sig11

No speeding tickets in the 3 years I've had a Z. This 370 is a cop magnet in solid red though. The FI exhaust doesn't help with the attention I'm sure.

I did get a red light ticket in Chicago for a right on red.



One of these days I'm going to try to analyze the video to figure out how fast I was going. I was kind-of angry when I saw that it wasn't a real violation just a bill. It takes 3 before the city can have some sanction put on your license and 10 to boot you or something like that.

Gaiiden

Actually some research has shown that red cars in general attract more attention from police.

I've gotten a few tickets/warning with my Z, but that's just a normal occurrence for me every so often. I never accrue enough points to lose my license or anything like that, usually I just pay em online and am done with it. I don't drive reckless, but I do drive over the limit, like 80 in a 65, cruising in the left lane. If traffic is slow, I just move with it - I don't swerve in and out or anything anymore. But since I'm speeding, every so often a cop decides to pull me over, even tho I pass the vast majority at 80 and they don't budge. It just depends on the cop *shrug*

I had $500 cash with me on Bullrun in case I had to pay tickets on the spot, but despite no radar detector/scanner and driving hella fast (120 over some highway stretches) I never got snagged over the course of 3 days. Of course, hahaha, we were always pretty far behind so we ended up passing a lot of other Bullrunners pulled over ahead of us :P

I did however get off once last year for 111 in a 55. I'm good at being calm and polite with cops now, so he cut me a break since I 1) didn't try to run and 2) didn't carry my speed (he saw me speed up to pass and honk goodbye to a few friends in front of me, then coast back to the limit). Being polite and helpful helped too no doubt. He ticketed me for "unclear plates" since I have my front plate on my dash. He could have cut up my license right in front of me since 111 is twice over the 55 national speed limit, which is grounds for immediate revocation of your license.

The best (worst?) part is I simply downshifted and floored it to pass my buddy one car ahead of me before letting completely off the gas - so in that time I went from ~60 to 111 and I honestly did not realize I had accelerated so quickly!! (I was already coasting back down to ~60 when I noticed the cop pull out behind me so I never bothered looking at how fast I was going) It wasn't long after getting the 370Z, so I didn't know better

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billydsz

I'm at about 7 months, no pull overs no tickets. But I use a radar/laser detector and I keep a sharp lookout. I've almost gotten nailed a couple of times, but I was just a little quicker than the cop on the draw (downshift with foot off the gas vs. him turning on the gun). It's only a matter of time before they get me though.

TonyBPD

Do you still have the hard copy of that ticket? Just an FYI - Failure to exhibit D.L., Reg and Insurance have a $180 or $190 fine. If it was speeding on the ticket you got some points coming your way.

Joseph B

No tickets while driving my Z, thankfully, I guess I've only driven it about 5 times though.

I did get a speeding ticket in my old S2000 for going 45 in the 35, I think that car was a magnet for trouble, at least for me. Got another ticket for no front plate on my G35 coupe. A bit ridiculos to pull me over and go through the trouble just for me to put a front plate on.

I imagine I will get pulled over for no front plate on my Z, no big deal, I will just pay the fine.

Matt

First off, no tickets or even stops so far. V1 is doing it's job perfectly!

Second, the "reports" that show red cars "get pulled over more" should be looked at a little closer.

Red cars make up a large portion of the "pool" of cars used in those reports. Red cars get pullled over proportionately to their % of total cars. In those reports, gray or silver cars actually get pulled over almost double compared to their % of total cars.

If I didn't explain it right, here's a little visualization, for example:

Total Cars:

Red - 40%
Silver/Gray - 20%
Yellow - 10%
Black - 30%

Tickets:

Traffic Stops:

Red - 35%
Silver/Gray - 35%
Yellow - 5%
Black - 25%

Obviously, numbers were made up to favor my argument, but closely reflect the "reports" I was able to find on the Internet.

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vipor

Had my Z for just over 6-1/2 months now and I have yet to be pulled over and cited. I did get stopped once by a cop because he couldn't read my dealer plate but then he just asked how I was doing and said "nice car."

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semtex

Been pulled over 3 times. Got a warning each time. It helped that on two of those occasions, the cops who pulled me over happened to own 350Zs. So they were actually quite friendly.

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CrownR426

Finally, starting to hear some unfortunate stories!
Doesn't make me feel too bad...
Kinda...

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Sibze

I was driving to work one morning and some really really cool kid in a pimped out Sunfire thought it would be really cool to try and race me.

So he pulls up beside me and starts revving his crotch rocket. So I play along I rev my car a little and make the crotch rocket shrink a little...

He then (feeling smaller and a little less of a boy) takes off and well………………. I DIDN'T because I am not an idiot... (did he really think he could beat me???)

Anyway about 10 seconds after acting like a douche bag a cop walks out from behind a tree and pulls him over.

As I drive by the cop gives me the thumbs up and was laughing his *** off, he watched the whole thing.


Love it

CrownR426

Is that the cop behind your z in your profile pic?
Cops are real good at hiding, imagine playing hide and go seek with them?!

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Sibze

^^^ HAHA that really made me laugh.

Ya it is a cop car. One of my best friends is a cop so we took a picture!