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YOUR RESEARCHIs anyone man enough?
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I was heading back to Rapid City after leaving Custer State Park and the speed limit changed 65 to 55 to 65 to 55.
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I run with a V1, largely for situation awareness, love that thing
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No radar/laser was used against me as a reason to pull me over nor to issue me a ticket.
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I've never had/used a detector; both my sons swear by them.
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Can't remember if it was the 996 or Xk8, but I got a mustang popped pretty good like that years ago.
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In SoCal, I believe lots of lane changes are more likely to get you a ticket than driving fast but in a straight line...probably because everyone here speeds.
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I started using radar detectors in my early 20's because of speeding accusations and now, 20 years later, I continue to use them (remote Passport versions nowadays).
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A 4 part question...... Has anyone ever been done for speeding in a 996 and is man enough to admit it on this board? If so, did you have a detector on board? If so what type? If you have never been done for speeding in your 996, do you have a radar detector on board or not? My answer to my own question is:- I Have never been done for speeding in 30,000 miles. I have a Python 360 laser detector on board. I do not speed simply because I have a detector on board. Many times I do drift over the limit.
Through 8 911s over the years, I've never been stopped for speeding in one of them. I have, however, been stopped in "lesser" cars. And I don't have a radar/laser detector. Typically, I drive at maybe 10 mph over the limit - exception anywhere near a school.
No tickets in the 911 and until this summer in the Cayenne never in a car that I paid more than $30k for. Picked em up like litter in my old 94 Duster, my 98 Golf was pretty good for that too, and a couple in my 04 Escape. My 2 e30s cost more than $30k, but I paid substantially less so I'm not sure how they fit in the correlation (no tickets). Don't drive any different based on the car I'm driving, so I can't explain it as I view speed limit signs as a suggestion
We've been running V1s since 98, but over the last couple of years I don't bother to move it between cars any more. So mine sits in the Cayenne all the time and I drive the 911 without it. Again, no difference in driving style.
40k miles on my 997, bought new 7+ years ago. No tickets, but neither have I had any in either of my other cars in the same span of time, and quite a few more miles total. All driven in the same manner - with the flow of traffic or slightly faster. When I just bought the 997, which is my first P-Car, I did a few crazy things, and was surprised that I got away with them. Got a few warning flashes from cruisers but never pulled over.
I don't carry a radar detector because to me they are an automatic admission of guilt - everyone speeds where I live, in Boston area; sometimes the traffic moves as much as 20 mph over the limit.
Yes, no, I was pulled over on a back country road here in south Jersey rt47 in the twists doing 70 in a 50. That being said the only two people on 47 that day was I heading south and a state trooper heading north. As soon as we saw each other he did a you turn and I just pulled over. I was busted and have great respect for our law enforcement . He pulled up in back and came up to the window and smiled ..... Nothing really needed to be said , I had everything ready for him and a stack of F.O.P cards that I keep in my wallet.
His reply was are you heading home back to the shore? Mine Yes sir, he said did you know you don't have a front plate ? I said yes sir , I don't like the way it make her look. . He said then please be a little more gentile with her . I said I would , he gave me a Tix for no front plate and I was on my way..
The moral being support law enforcement , shown respect , and always give them a second option ! Paid the $65 on line when I got home !!
By the way , he loved my 996c4s cab!!!!
Sound like the last I got in the Escape. Came around a corner doing 20+ over and the laser went off in the V1. I couldn't see him, but I knew where he was sitting (not regularly there, but if they were there was a single spot) so I went a head and pulled over. We go through the usual "how fast" banter and as he is writing my VIN down he noticed the V1 (illegal in VA) and the following was:
Him: what's that?
Me: radar detector.
Him: you know those are illegal?
Me: yes.
Him: didn't do you any good did it?
Me: you didn't have to chase me did you? (He didn't have to move his cruiser)
After he got done laughing he wrote me a plain speeding ticket far lower than what we both know I was doing. Didn't even ticket me for the V1
It boggles my mind that people give cops crap for doing their job when they know they were breaking the law. I find as long as you are respectful and don't try to give them a bunch of BS excuses they are generally pretty cool people. I have run into a couple bad ones though and it is a shame they are out there.
4 of my 5 Porsches have been guards red. The cops never seem to even notice me.
Seriously though, of the red ones, I only got a ticket in the 964, although my son got 2 in the 951. The black '99 aero coupe was a freaking cop magnet. Never had a radar detector in any of them.
The 996tt has a Passport 9500 built in system and an additional laser jammer/diffuser. It is making me a believer again.
My last ticket was in 1992 in my 1986 Porsche 944. 88mph in a 55. Did not have a detector that day. My first detector was a Super Snooper I bought in the mid-seventies. The last detector I purchased was a Passport 8500 I bought in the late nineties and I still use in it in my BMW wagon. My 911 came hardwired with a Passport SRX.
In re-reading the original post, I'm not sure I answered all of Hurdi's questions. Am I man enough? Well after a quick Google search, I found this and realized that "No, I am not nearly man enough":
Not yet (knock on wood) although God knows I've been a prime candidate more than a few times. Haven't had a speeding ticket in 24 years by some miracle or another.
Hmmm, interesting question. Man enough to admit to a previous ticket on an anonymous forum where anyone can write any smack that they feel like with no consequences? Shouldn't take Shaft to man up to that. Would I man up by posting a video showing the said infraction(s), a shot of the speedo, the vehicle plate and my face/name? Hell no!
No detector. Only my eyes, a good brain with enough intelligence to miss the obvious speed trap locations and the requisite horseshoe rammed sideways up my _ _ _ for good luck.
Rec'd a ticket in 1979 driving a '65 Valiant about 10 over the limit in NJ (home at the time).
Rec'd 2nd ticket in 2001 in TX cuz I sped up to get around a weaving driver. Cop didn't ask questions or anything.
Not me, but #1 son was pulled over for doing 94 in a 40 on his way to work in his 2013 Cayman S. Was pulled over in our own town at about 1130 at night. Cop sees he's local, asks what he was doing (son is a Fed employee), and when he found out he was on his way to work, let him go with a warning. This was just before a large on-ramp to the freeway, so son was gittin' on it while still in the 40.
I've never had/used a detector; both my sons swear by them.
I got a speeding ticket in my 996 on I-70 west of Denver. I was using a Bel RX-65. A motorcycle officer got me right where the speed limit drops from 70 mph to 55 mph. That was the only ticket I've ever gotten in a 911, and the only one I've ever gotten with a radar detector.
yep, have one. no detector, fly blind as am usually within 5 to 10 or moving with the flow of traffic.
am considering one as a personal gift to myself.
The orientation of this photo is ideal for this thread.
re: detectors - the wife and I have them in all three cars, and they have paid for themselves ten times over or more.
Escort 9500Xi hidden system with laser jammers front and rear.
System was on the car when I bought it.
Works Great! The amount of alerts/info is incredible, you need to know how to us it to really take advantage of every thing it can do.
I have not gotten a speeding ticket with the 996... yet, but the system has always alerted me of what is going on around me.
I try not to be a dumb @ss with the car, she is really loud and I have been painted with laser before... its kind of scary when it goes off for that and you can not "see" them!
I do speed, but there is also something very fun about driving a fast car . . . slowly--
I run with a V1, largely for situation awareness, love that thing
I have been known to squirt in an out of traffic, but the sustained high speeds only have limited enjoyment for me, personally-- KH
Interesting. In SoCal, I believe lots of lane changes are more likely to get you a ticket than driving fast but in a straight line...probably because everyone here speeds. A lot.
I have a badge and gun, the Highway Patrol pilot is my hangar neighbor (I know when he's flying) and Mrs Gator is the traffic court judge. I am pretty well covered in my area.
I actually have not been stopped since 1987. I know how fast I can push it, at least in FL.
What color ticket do you want? I have them from many states in different colors with great stories about how I got each one
Yeah, and some I had a Radar, Laser and a CB back in the day, lol. Just always going to dang fast. I was a product of the environment I grew up in. I was stationed in Germany for almost 10 years, it was a hard adjustment driving in America
It's an english expression ! Yes, the rozzers got
Me with laser - relatively empty freeway, early on a Sunday morning , cop was on the other side of a bridge so I didnt see him. My v1 did not go off - so maybe it is too old to work with newer laser guns or there was not enough scatter. Either way, I try to use Waze as well as the v1 now - not 100% fool proof - but gives you more confidence. Lucky I had
Good traffic attorney - " insufficient evidence , case dismissed"
I was going through Barstow around two in morning on way to vegas in my 1986 mustang .I saw the CHP headlights oscillating way behind me,I was the only car on the road, so I pulled over and waited.He got me on radar/lidar for doing 135 MPH.When he asked if I knew how fast I was going ,I told him my speedometer only goes to 85 MPH .
Back in the late 70's got a ticket for 90 In a 65 zone.
Went to court in San Bernardino and told the judge I'd do the jail time instead of paying the ticket.
Next thing I heard was case dismissed
That's awesome, I claimed the same in college when I only had a 56' Chevy Stepside pickup for transportation, speedo did' work, just a tach. The boys in Charlotte did not like hot rods back then! Got a ticket for crossing the yellow line instead of speeding, 2 points!
Got busted in the car I rented on the way to pick up my 996... but never an issue since then. Lots of wide open spaces in the Pacific Northwest.
@Gator996: I just moved recently to the Gator Nation. Saw you can open the car up a bit through Paynes Prairie but don't know where to do it other than there.
"When he asked if I knew how fast I was going, I told him my speedometer only goes to 85 MPH"
Great answer!
So far, no stops in the P-cars.
The first weekend I had the C2, we did a road trip to the Keys. Somewhre around Key Largo my V1 lights up, showing 3 signals aft. 1 cop rolls past me at a fast clip as I am doing a stately 23 mph in a 25 zone. I still see 2 behind me, so I maintain parade speed. Eventually they caught up, giving me the evil eye as they passed.
I was lit up by laser last night on the way home in the GT3. As I was doing 17mph in 25mph zone, I was not overly concerned.
A few months ago, on another Take Your Track Toy To The Office day, I got hit by laser on US1 - I was doing 3 over. While the K40 was still burbling, a chick in a white VW bug blows by me. Then a kid on a dirt bike blows by her. Bug girl nails the brakes and pulls in behind me. The cop pulls out behind us, lights going, zooms up and then past me and Bug girl to wave the bike to the center lane. He is stopped in the left lane, blocking traffic, so as I pull up to him, I give him a "?" look. He waves me off to go on my way. As Bug girl tries to follow in my wake, pretty much glued to my bumperettes. Cop shakes his head at her and directs her to stop. She frantically points at me in the Please Arrest Me car, but he smiles and shakes his head again "no"
Happy memories.
Radar detectors have saved me many times - I am a believer.
Last ticket was driving a Renault LeCar up a hill. Speed limit was 45. Said no way could I have been speeding. Got a ticket anyway.
DuckAmuck: Welcome to the Gator Nation!
I've only been pulled over for speeding when my cabrio top was down (2xs MD and 1x in VA). No radar/laser was used against me as a reason to pull me over nor to issue me a ticket. (so for me I wished they were man enough to admit in court they were wrong).
So in court, only to save myself time and money (even though I dragged this case on for a year), I once admitted traveling to 10 mph over. Is that man enough?
I started using radar detectors in my early 20's because of speeding accusations and now, 20 years later, I continue to use them (remote Passport versions nowadays).
I got tagged for speeding on my trip to S. Dakota
I was heading back to Rapid City after leaving Custer State Park and the speed limit changed 65 to 55 to 65 to 55. Must have been radar or laser as he was in the median.
I was going maybe 70 and the speed limit had just dropped to 55
Saw him pull out of the median as I passed him and he then lit up.
Just got a warning. Maybe it was because we were tourists in a rental car.
It was odd, because he said the speed limit had just dropped from 75 to 65 when he tagged me and to keep it at 65 as that was the speed limit the rest of the way to Rapid City.
Of course my wife could not resist calling both our kids to tell them I had been pulled over for speeding.
I love warnings. This one was from 2 Zonie troopers who could easily have impounded my Boxster but instead let me go with a warning. Cool dudes...the 75+ in a 65 was really 80+ in the speed trap east of Gila Bend, where the eastbound speed limit drops from 65 to 45, but since they tailed me for a while to see if I was really going to open it up into felony reckless driving and I instead maintained my fast-but-not-dangerous pace, they cut me an enormous break.
In all fairness, how can you NOT speed in a Porsche on a mile-long sweeping curve? What kind of monster takes such a road at 45?
My top ticket was in the late 80's at about 2am. It was a result of being tagged at 121mph in a 55. The Escort went off, I tapped the brakes, saw him on the other side of the Interstate downshifted and dropped the hammer. When he lucked up and found me about an hour later he said he got me at 121, I slowed to 119 as soon as he hit me with radar, but I was doing 139 when I outran radar.
The LEO had just finished telling me he never got close enough to get a plate number so he couldn't prove it was me, when the state trooper interrogating my passenger about 20 feet away literally started jumping up and down and pointing at my "friend" saying "Uh huh, uh huh, he said it was them!" Luckily they put us in separate cells...
After I bonded out, I found out that the girl I was dating at the time's older sister had just started dating the cop. He had the tickets "remanded to the judges file". Allegedly if I found myself in trouble there again, it would all come up. Fortunately it did not. I count myself extremely lucky!
That's not all the details, but it is the bones of the deal. It's much more colorful when I'm drinking!
I hate to say it (for reasons of Karma) but I have not gotten a ticket in the 996. I had an Escort 9500ix in since I bought it. I just put an Escort Max 360 in it about a month ago. They have both saved me. I've seen at least a 1/2 dozen people I was running in traffic with get tickets after I slowed due to an alert from the 9500ix. Why in the world if a car you were beside suddenly drops from 90 down to the speed limit would you press on?
Honestly - even though I drive VERY fast at times - I still drive far more safely overall than I did when I was young (say, under 25). I almost never find myself driving at an unsafe speed for the circumstances, and thankfully the CHP in SoCal have enough people to bust that they don't spend that much time doing speed traps in the middle of nowhere during off-peak hours, which is when I do the majority of my fast driving.
Yeah, I don't get that. If the guy in the 911 who has been flying along in the fast lane pops over three lanes and throttles back to 75 while reaching for the mute button on the detector, it might be a good idea to ease up.
McBit - DAMN.
*edit* Phew - after the AED->USD conversion, it's not as brutal as it looked.
When I was 19 I lived in Agoura and had a stock '84 Z28. I got pulled over by the same Malibu Sheriff, officer Boudreaux, every two weeks for months. He stopped me once to make sure my horn worked. Another time he stopped me, walked around my car, looked underneath, and said I could go-when I asked why he stopped me he said he was looking for someone in a car just like this earlier. He was parked at the four-way stop to my street and I saw him, I came to a complete stop, and he gave me a ticket for stopping with my front wheels over the limit line. I argued but it did no good. He gave me a speeding ticket for going 37 in a 30 on a Sunday night at midnight. The last time he stopped me, he asked where my front license plate was, I said, "in my garage, where's yours?" He said they're not required on official vehicles and gave me a fixit ticket. Fixit tickets didn't cost anything back then so I could afford to be a smart ***.
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Can't and won't drive without a radar detector. When I was in France, the radars are illegal there and fine is something like automatic $1,250.00 in cash...so I ended up driving without one. Was driving like speed limit all the time with few exceptions.
AMG has been at 3x speed limit on multiple occasions, which is very stupid on my part. It is just so easy in this car, dropping the hammer in 2nd gear gives you the sling-shot effect till 90 mph.
Can't remember if it was the 996 or Xk8, but I got a mustang popped pretty good like that years ago. He was one of those asses that wants to speed but doesn't have the ***** to do it himself. He also didn't have the brains to effectively use someone as bait (e.g. staying maybe 1 car length from the "bait" car).
Before things got built up my V1 used to pick up cops hiding on the other side of a hill about 3 miles from where you got off the highway. The guy had been following me and generally being a dick on the highway and followed me off onto the other road. As soon as I came off the highway the V1 woke up and I knew exactly where the cop was. So I kept egging* him on to higher speeds and then right before the crest of the hill I jumped to the right lane and hit the brakes hard (also when there was much less traffic than there is now). He probably crested the hill doing about 95 or so. It was only a 45mph zone back then.
The look of pure hate when I finally caught up and passed him pulled over was priceless. I gave him my best **** eating grin and wave as I drove by
I'd love to know if he got lucky and was let go with just the ticket or if he got a timeout for his lack of intelligence.
* Note that by egging him on I was just increasing my speed like I always did on that stretch back then. It just had the happy benefit that I knew he would keep pacing me.
Nothing earned in the 911 although only reason is I must be living right. I don't intentionally speed it just happens in this car! Last speeding ticket was in my 1965 Sunbeam Tiger. 38mph in a 25mph. Cop smiled and said "you hit the brakes before I got you or it would have been worse." He was right. That was 40 years ago. Lost my zest for street speeding after driving a 360c.i. sprint car on dirt for a few years.
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