e30 + empty road = bad idea.

[Massimo]

The cop is only pissed off cos you are only one of very few to have touring in AUS.

FIXED

Now if that was in adeliade and you got done doing 120 they would take your nice car and crush it.

[Nick_S]

Do a burnout or street race and your car is confiscated from you for 3 months, you lose your license for 6 and have a huge fine. They charge you for the tow to the impound yard, for storage fees at the impound yard and to get your car out of the impound yard.

Get caught racing or doing burnouts a second time and they suspend your license for +12mo and confiscate your car. You don't get it back the 2nd time (some states in Australia crush the car now).

You get 12/13points on your license in Oz and a basic 10km/h speeding fine is generally 2-3 points in most states (some are 1point up to 10km/h over). Once you run out of points, you lose your license for 3months and your insurance will quadruple overnight.

Holy hell. I would go buy a MkI Rabbit diesel and never have to worry haha.

I actually just got popped for 76 in a 55. He was nice enough to mark it down as 74 in a 55. In Ohio, atleast the county I was pulled over in has the same fine for 0-20 over and it was $125. 20-30 was close to double that and I believe may be considered reckless operation so I dodged a bullet. I honestly didn't know the speed limit had changed, thought it was 65.

[Broom Broom]

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Now if that was in adeliade and you got done doing 120 they would take your nice car and crush it.

holy shit, i didnt know that

that would be bad, seeing as though there are very few touring e30's in OZ

[Massimo]

Yeh it comes under the hoon laws if you are 40km/h over the speed limit they impound your car you loose your license and get a fine. Then you need to pay to get your car out of impound. If you were to break a hoon law twice then they can crush your car if they so wish. I think there are has only been like 2 or 3 cars that this has happend to but it can happen.

[e30Nicko]

The detected speed on their laser camera was 117 and because they give you 2kmph off the detected speed i'm being charged with 115 in an 80 zone.

The worst thing is though that if i was going 1 kmph slower i would only lose 3 months as opposed to 6.

Just rang the police and they won't change the alleged speed 1 km so yeah going to have to cop this one on the chin and move on.

gay.

[havoc]

probably virginia.

if you are over 90 your spend the night in jail.
over 100 and your lose your license for a year.

damn how the fire arms law out there?

[Max Archer]

I gave up serious speeding a long time ago. (As a Californian, you'll get rear-ended if you don't do 10 over.) What's funny is that, despite having gone some relatively high speeds, every ticket I've ever gotten has been going with the flow of traffic.

[Bimmerman325i]

OP, tough break. I didn't know australia was so fascistic about speeding and hooning.

I got busted speeding too, I pulled away from a red light in under 5 seconds...hit 51mph and backed off to coast to 30mph (the limit) got taken to court and they threw book at me. Especially when in the UK the average 22 year old owns a 1.4 VW Golf and not a track prepared E36 328iSE that accelerates like a missle.

I just saw your thread on e36-tech that was linked above. A slammed 328i sedan is hardly track prepared, and a chipped 328i (as everything else is bone stock in the engine bay) hardly accelerates "like a missile." A bone stock E36 M3 (which is ~1.7 seconds quicker than a 328is) is out-accelerated by a V6 toyota camry. Sorry man, a ~6.5sec 0-60 is not incredible world-ending absurd acceleration.

You've a great first car for being a young guy, but you do not have a high horsepower track car.

[Philipangoo]

Like a missile!

[InuFaye]

328i accel like a missle.

Thats like eta power.

[accident]

My 328is is relatively quick, but I dunno about "missile." I've gotten dusted by lightly modified E30s in a straight line.

[neighborhood]

Holy hell. I would go buy a MkI Rabbit diesel and never have to worry haha.

I actually just got popped for 76 in a 55. He was nice enough to mark it down as 74 in a 55. In Ohio, atleast the county I was pulled over in has the same fine for 0-20 over and it was $125. 20-30 was close to double that and I believe may be considered reckless operation so I dodged a bullet. I honestly didn't know the speed limit had changed, thought it was 65.

You actually got pulled over in Columbus doing 76.... WTF? I fucking drive downtown with the semi going that fast and don't have problems.

[funcrew]

Do a burnout or street race and your car is confiscated from you for 3 months, you lose your license for 6 and have a huge fine. They charge you for the tow to the impound yard, for storage fees at the impound yard and to get your car out of the impound yard.

Get caught racing or doing burnouts a second time and they suspend your license for +12mo and confiscate your car. You don't get it back the 2nd time (some states in Australia crush the car now).

You get 12/13points on your license in Oz and a basic 10km/h speeding fine is generally 2-3 points in most states (some are 1point up to 10km/h over). Once you run out of points, you lose your license for 3months and your insurance will quadruple overnight.

This is really crushing my world view of what Australia is like. I had been thinking a country full of Crocodile Dundees but you make it sound like a bunch of pussies.

[funcrew]

The detected speed on their laser camera was 117 and because they give you 2kmph off the detected speed i'm being charged with 115 in an 80 zone.

The worst thing is though that if i was going 1 kmph slower i would only lose 3 months as opposed to 6.

Just rang the police and they won't change the alleged speed 1 km so yeah going to have to cop this one on the chin and move on.

gay.

Don't they have traffic-ticket lawyers in Australia?

[MattM]

wow, and i thought our laws up here were striked... Under 40kph over the limit is just a fine...(like $200), over 40kph over the limit you get your car impounded for a week(new law only in the last year), and pay all expenses...