Completely untrue. There are many attorneys that take traffic cases. Best thing to do is go to the website for the court in question and look at recent traffic cases, which typically list the attorney. I have used one in the past.Attorneys won’t waste their time on something this menial.
Where else would it go? Its not a criminal case, and the real case is with the inspection not the noise violation. They had to reference a statute for whatever they were blocking the registration for, meaning there is a court somewhere responsible for it.I guess I assumed that it would be in traffic court
I mean, how loud can a stock Hyundai be?This is just a cop not using common sense. Ticketing an unmodified Sonata?
Apparently you (and others) didn't read some of this thread well enough.This is just a cop not using common sense. Ticketing an unmodified Sonata?
What I'm trying to say is, you can't go get an attorney and sue the police for being "wronged" or "treated unfair", etc, and clean out the city for tens of thousands of dollars. You basically just contest the ticket and hope it gets dismissed, or pay the ticket lawyer a couple hundred bucks to dismiss it for you. If it's enough just for small claims, an attorney is unnecessary.Completely untrue. There are many attorneys that take traffic cases. Best thing to do is go to the website for the court in question and look at recent traffic cases, which typically list the attorney. I have used one in the past.
Where else would it go? Its not a criminal case, and the real case is with the inspection not the noise violation. They had to reference a statute for whatever they were blocking the registration for, meaning there is a court somewhere responsible for it.
You apparently didn't read the linked article either.I mean, how loud can a stock Hyundai be?
Well I agree you will never win a case against city hall - but I don't think anyone inferred that. All the article inferred was the guy wants to drive the car that the clown show of a state inspector suspended because they don't know how to do the test. So he needs a judge to rule he needs a new, properly executed, test.What I'm trying to say is, you can't go get an attorney and sue the police for being "wronged" or "treated unfair", etc, and clean out the city for tens of thousands of dollars. You basically just contest the ticket and hope it gets dismissed, or pay the ticket lawyer a couple hundred bucks to dismiss it for you. If it's enough just for small claims, an attorney is unnecessary.
I apparently did read it, multiple times thanks - the allowed levels don't tell me anything vs. hearing it so here's some videos to put this in perspective...it's louder than I thought! I've driven a tuned BMW with overun/burbles...entertaining to let off the gas for sure! My wagon is tough to add it to b/c of the lack of VVT on the exhaust cam...wouldn't want this all the time but the ability to switch it on and have some junvenile car-guy fun would be cool. I'm sure the Kona N will have this and as much I deplor small cute-ute CUVs, I'd send it fully in that Kona.You apparently didn't read the linked article either.
It clearly states that the vehicle was 98 dB in sport mode and over 100 dB when it popped and cracked. WELL above the allowed levels.
First of all, I want to apologize beause when I re-read what I wrote, it was rude; I'm sorry about that.I apparently did read it, multiple times thanks - the allowed levels don't tell me anything vs. hearing it so here's some videos to put this in perspective...it's louder than I thought!
Apparently you (and others) didn't read some of this thread well enough.
I'll repeat this for you ...
"California Assembly Bill 1824 went into effect in January 2019. This new legislation ... makes it mandatory for police officers to issue immediate tickets to offenders."
The cop was doing his "mandated" job. Yes; he was a bit of a tool. He was rambling about stuff that he had no business talking about. It's his job to enforce the law; not be the judge and jury. The cop should not be fired; he should be counseled about his unsolicited legal advice.
Please, cops have a lot of leeway and discretion. Writing a ticket to someone driving an unmodified factory Sonata is just stupid and a waste of everyone's time.
If the cop decided to ignore the law requiring he give the driver a ticket, the cop COULD have gotten away with it prior to body cameras.
Now that there are body cameras, that changes things.
Hasn't changed violating civil rights. Funny how they can be such sticklers for the law in certain situations.
I will quote the article:so that just re-enforces the topic of the cop doing his "mandatory" job.
Those N cars make all sorts of noises in “N mode”. At the autocross event I went to there was a completely stock, still on paper tags Kona N. At first we were like “lol, crossover?” but not only did that thing friggin RIP through the course it was pretty loud, lots of turbo and blow off noises and the exhaust sounded good (IMO). I wouldn’t say it was “loud”, the Roush Mustang took that prize, but it was up there and would definitely draw some attention.I highly doubt that this article is telling the whole story and this car is bone stock. I see all kinds of cars with modified exhaust and with illegal tunes popping and back firing on deceleration. If I were a cop, I'd be handing out a lot of tickets for loud exhaust.