Speeding Tickets and RX-8
07-28-2006, 11:53 AM
#26
Mr. T is my copilot
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: los angeles
Posts: 794
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by KuzuRyuuSen
I got 3 tickets in a year (15,000 miles).
1 reckless driving ticket (didn't intend to drive fast at all, just felt anxious with my midterm)
2 speeding ticket (1 is due to midterm again; and the other one, i felt bored at home during the summer studying for damn GRE, so i decided to go out and have fun)
1 reckless driving ticket (didn't intend to drive fast at all, just felt anxious with my midterm)
2 speeding ticket (1 is due to midterm again; and the other one, i felt bored at home during the summer studying for damn GRE, so i decided to go out and have fun)
07-28-2006, 12:35 PM
#27
Bet Like a Champion Today
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Pittsburgh
Posts: 789
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
0 tickets in the Rx-8, 1 ticket in the 7 years I have been driving. The fellow above is right, you just have to pay attention and you easyily spot them on the side of the road waiting for you
07-28-2006, 01:29 PM
#28
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Pensacola, FL
Posts: 130
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by expo1
69,700 miles never been pulled over.
I think my yellow 8 blends in well. OR there are so many dam cars and bored cops in New Jersey I couldn't speed if I wanted to???
I think my yellow 8 blends in well. OR there are so many dam cars and bored cops in New Jersey I couldn't speed if I wanted to???
07-28-2006, 01:32 PM
#29
Administrator
just paid my 80 in a 55 ticket i got at the beginning of the month. had aclean record til this one. court lowered the fine for me for pleading no contest and paying with the CC over the phone. took 80 bucks off
07-28-2006, 01:43 PM
#30
Taylor not Tyler
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Bristol, Connecticut
Posts: 188
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by vapourit
tickets....
worrying about them ruins a perfectly fine day cruising around.
worrying about them ruins a perfectly fine day cruising around.
When you speed, you take the risk of getting pulled over. So why bother looking for a cop or not, in most cases by the time you see them it's already too late.
07-28-2006, 01:45 PM
#31
Registered Rep
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Largo, FL
Posts: 253
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Red, 2004 GT with no spoiler.
In the 1 1/2 years I've been driving it, I've yet to receive a speeding ticket (knock wood). I have been followed many times by the authorities, though. They all seem to want to run my license plate number.
Go figure!
In the 1 1/2 years I've been driving it, I've yet to receive a speeding ticket (knock wood). I have been followed many times by the authorities, though. They all seem to want to run my license plate number.
Go figure!
07-28-2006, 01:57 PM
#32
Pining for the Fjords
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Fort Wayne, IN
Posts: 688
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by dean2900
the majority of 30-something individuals with RX8s probably dont post on this board.
Oh, to answer the question, five months and no tix in the '8. Hell, I haven't had a ticket of ANY kind in a decade.
Last edited by DrDiaboloco; 07-28-2006 at 02:00 PM.
07-28-2006, 02:55 PM
#33
Registered User
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 282
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by DrDiaboloco
Yes, most 30-somethings have far more sense than the 38yr-oldies like you and I, dean.
Oh, to answer the question, five months and no tix in the '8. Hell, I haven't had a ticket of ANY kind in a decade.
Oh, to answer the question, five months and no tix in the '8. Hell, I haven't had a ticket of ANY kind in a decade.
Your handle is Crazy Devil and you have no speeding tickets. I am impressed!
Dean
07-28-2006, 03:20 PM
#34
Registered User
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Posts: 76
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by DrDiaboloco
Yes, most 30-somethings have far more sense than the 38yr-oldies like you and I, dean.
Oh, to answer the question, five months and no tix in the '8. Hell, I haven't had a ticket of ANY kind in a decade.
Oh, to answer the question, five months and no tix in the '8. Hell, I haven't had a ticket of ANY kind in a decade.
07-28-2006, 05:21 PM
#36
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Washington state
Posts: 108
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by dean2900
I am 38 year old business professional and I could buy a 80k Porsche but you got to look at the big picture. I do want to be able to retire one day. Just because some kid either gets money from his parents or spends all of his money on a car doesn't mean you have to.
I really think part of the issue is that forums are frequented by the younger generation so the majority of 30-something individuals with RX8s probably dont post on this board.
Dean
I really think part of the issue is that forums are frequented by the younger generation so the majority of 30-something individuals with RX8s probably dont post on this board.
Dean
Good point, Dean. Thanks! I feel better now.
07-28-2006, 05:35 PM
#37
Pining for the Fjords
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Fort Wayne, IN
Posts: 688
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by dean2900
Maybe Crazy Devil simply doesn't speed! I have heard rumors of such things.
I have been STOPPED a few times since my last actual ticket, and let off in each instance. Three for speeding, one for not displaying a front plate. The most recent of those was five years ago. I actually have one ticket in the last 14 years, after a string of them as *ahem* "a younger fella".
Basically, it's just a matter of time until I get a ticket (I look at it as an informal tax
), but I'm careful not to really speed because to ME it can mean more than a few points and higher insurance...Well, there was that time recently that I probed the top-end performance of the '8, but of course that was on a racetrack.
Last edited by DrDiaboloco; 07-28-2006 at 05:38 PM.
07-28-2006, 05:38 PM
#38
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 99
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally Posted by DrDiaboloco
Well, let's say I'm careful. Except in areas where I KNOW I can expect heavy patrolling, I'm doing 5-10 over at most on local roads... Except around my immediate neighborhood, where in a couple of areas I'm really cooking. On the highway I'm almost NEVER doing more than ten over (only when passing, for instance, or a run down an onramp), figuring the cops won't waste their time on me.
I have been STOPPED a few times since my last actual ticket, and let off in each instance. Three for speeding, one for not displaying a front plate. The most recent of those was five years ago.
Basically, it's just a matter of time until I get a ticket (I look at it as an informal tax), but I'm careful not to really speed because to ME it can mean more than a few points and higher insurance...
Well, there was that time recently that I probed the top-end performance of the '8, but of course that was on a racetrack.
I have been STOPPED a few times since my last actual ticket, and let off in each instance. Three for speeding, one for not displaying a front plate. The most recent of those was five years ago.
Basically, it's just a matter of time until I get a ticket (I look at it as an informal tax
), but I'm careful not to really speed because to ME it can mean more than a few points and higher insurance...Well, there was that time recently that I probed the top-end performance of the '8, but of course that was on a racetrack.
What else does it mean?
07-28-2006, 05:39 PM
#39
Pining for the Fjords
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Fort Wayne, IN
Posts: 688
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
What else does WHAT mean?
:edit: Oh, now I see what you're getting at. Potential employers in my field have a dim view of an "exciting" driving record, especially if it's recent.
:edit: Oh, now I see what you're getting at. Potential employers in my field have a dim view of an "exciting" driving record, especially if it's recent.
07-29-2006, 06:45 PM
#41
Rotary retard
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 35
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
0 tickets in 9 years of driving and I have no idea how. Actually, I've never even been pulled even though I typically ride at 10-20 over the speed limit. Had a few close calls but I've just been lucky so far I guess. I know my day is coming though. 
07-29-2006, 10:10 PM
#42
'03 Dodge Viper
I just got one on the way home. This one's expensive...
$145
At least I got this conversation out of it.
"So how do you like your car?"
"It's great, I love it."
"Yeah, it's pretty slick looking. I don't know of much on the road that can handle like that. I was having a hell of a time trying to catch up to you through those curves."
pwned in the twistes
$145
At least I got this conversation out of it.
"So how do you like your car?"
"It's great, I love it."
"Yeah, it's pretty slick looking. I don't know of much on the road that can handle like that. I was having a hell of a time trying to catch up to you through those curves."
pwned in the twistes
07-29-2006, 11:00 PM
#43
.:. causing mischief
Originally Posted by JCTarheel82
0 tickets in 9 years of driving and I have no idea how. Actually, I've never even been pulled even though I typically ride at 10-20 over the speed limit. Had a few close calls but I've just been lucky so far I guess. I know my day is coming though.
07-29-2006, 11:00 PM
#44
ROTARY-A-HOLIC
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 379
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
a cop actually said that to you...... hahahahahah
P.S.- sorry about the ticket, I know how you feel....i ahve 6 points altogether and my insurance is like 2,000 dollars its ridic... because i'm still young and I have a heavy foot!
P.S.- sorry about the ticket, I know how you feel....i ahve 6 points altogether and my insurance is like 2,000 dollars its ridic... because i'm still young and I have a heavy foot!
07-29-2006, 11:23 PM
#45
Diamond Lil
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Bakersfield, CA
Posts: 3
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Nothing wrong with a red rx8--I just got my 2006 rx8 this may, red. before that I had my a red 95 toyota celica that I brought new in 1995, til I upgraded to the rx8.
pulled over for a california rolling stop, but thats it. its just a matter of alway looking ahead of you, not just the car in front of you, and in the rear mirrows--like mentioned above, train your eye.
pulled over for a california rolling stop, but thats it. its just a matter of alway looking ahead of you, not just the car in front of you, and in the rear mirrows--like mentioned above, train your eye.
07-29-2006, 11:31 PM
#46
'03 Dodge Viper
Not much my eye could do for me this time. It was night and he was hiding on the opposide side of a building...nothing was visible until you went right by him....
My eye has saved me plenty of times but not this one.
My eye has saved me plenty of times but not this one.
07-30-2006, 12:01 AM
#47
Diamond Lil
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Bakersfield, CA
Posts: 3
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
shizer, I hate when that happens. I just wish they would give us an autobahn (I lived in Germany three years late 80s, it was sweet!), no one drives the speed limit anymore.
I didnt see any cops at all on my drive to vegas and back last weekend.
I didnt see any cops at all on my drive to vegas and back last weekend.
08-08-2006, 11:40 PM
#48
Unregistered User
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 292
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I've got three tickets in the last 2 months...
"5mph over" (said i was drag racing a bmw... it was a miata... one of the most confusing conversations I've ever had)
45 in 35mph
Then a 60mph in a 30 tonight My 8500 x50 went off and I was going about 25mph when it stopped going off... not really sure what happened... I am sure that I am fucked for that one though... so so fucked.
"5mph over" (said i was drag racing a bmw... it was a miata... one of the most confusing conversations I've ever had)
45 in 35mph
Then a 60mph in a 30 tonight
My 8500 x50 went off and I was going about 25mph when it stopped going off... not really sure what happened... I am sure that I am fucked for that one though... so so fucked.
08-09-2006, 07:15 AM
#49
Banned
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Brooklyn/Roosevelt, LI/Rosedale, NY
Posts: 71
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I have no tickets in my 8(five months) and none in my wrx(four years). I have only had two speeding tickets in my life and those were when I first got my license. Cops are easy to spot during day driving when they are in obvious positions but at night or when they have well thought out positions it is impossible to see them with out a little help that is why I never leave home without my V1. It has saved me numerous times, atleast 3 times in the last five months of owning the 8.
08-22-2006, 02:43 AM
#50
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 27
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
First ticket in like 6 years tonight. 7 years?
I am always wary but I swear this officer was waiting for me. Lights off, on the side of a major highway, in a skinny shoulder area, completely invisible. $153 for 80 in 60 after he told me I was going 77 when I first spoke to him.
I'm kind of surprised I didn't just get a warning considering there was no one else on the road, my wife was dressed up for dinner out, and I have a very clean record.
The officer never said anything except telling me I was "going 77 approaching 80," requesting my license and proof of insurance, and telling me to read the back of the ticket. In all, he said a total of two sentences to me.
If I was in my old Civic it would have been a warning.
Perhaps this is a rite of passage for a new sports car owner. BTW I have only had my 8 for 1.5 months.
I am always wary but I swear this officer was waiting for me. Lights off, on the side of a major highway, in a skinny shoulder area, completely invisible. $153 for 80 in 60 after he told me I was going 77 when I first spoke to him.
I'm kind of surprised I didn't just get a warning considering there was no one else on the road, my wife was dressed up for dinner out, and I have a very clean record.
The officer never said anything except telling me I was "going 77 approaching 80," requesting my license and proof of insurance, and telling me to read the back of the ticket. In all, he said a total of two sentences to me.
If I was in my old Civic it would have been a warning.
Perhaps this is a rite of passage for a new sports car owner. BTW I have only had my 8 for 1.5 months.
Last edited by seattle; 08-22-2006 at 03:02 AM.