Po-po spotting/evading techniques

[SamE30e]

Why would you want a switch just to turn off (or on, in some posts) the brake lights? Why not hook it up so it turns off the rear lights, and the brake lights?

I ran once, it was a bad fucking idea stupid too! Farm road in the middle of no where, no lights and it was a dark night. I was doing about 75 over (That here gets your car impounded and license suspension) I saw the cop hit his lights coming towards me and start to slow down to make a u-turn. I just hit the lights, dropped a gear and stomped on it, didn't touch my brakes the whole time, just down shifted to slow down for turns pulled into some dark ass road covered by trees and waited for him to pass me (which never happened). I kept looking back and his car kept getting smaller and smaller and eventually I never saw it again. There was no way he saw my plates too because I had my high beams on when I was going towards him and by the time he could have turned around my lights were off. Stupidest thing I ever did but I felt pretty bad ass after it was said and done.

Man i'm an idiot.

[cferb]

Good god you are paranoid. Pay more attention to the road...If you're paying enough attention to your driving, you'll notice cops too. And if you're that paranoid, get a V1

[homegrone30]

do any of you have the ghost cars in your area

[jerods87e30]

Why would you want a switch just to turn off (or on, in some posts) the brake lights? Why not hook it up so it turns off the rear lights, and the brake lights?

[DMF]

DMF
How do I know you and your car???

Umm.. what? I do not know you.. but my car was from North Carolina..

Are you talking about making a switch so the brake lights dont flick on? If so, I've considered doing that with my 2002's custom wiring harness that I need to get to designing, as well as a switch that I can turn the brake lights on without hitting the brakes to get people off my ass if they're trailing ON my bumper. Very simple wiring just around the brake actuating switch.

That is exactly what I am talking about.. now if I could figure out which wires connect to the brake lights without tearing everything apart. Switch to turn on the brake lights would be fun too :)

V1's are awesome. First accessory I'd get if I had a fast car.

(nice sig pic btw)

Thanks. V1 or Passport 8500 is should be standard for everyone with the prices of speeding tickets these days.

[eric (^__^)]

Eyes + V1.

Anyone ever install a switch to turn off the rear lights?

V1's are awesome. First accessory I'd get if I had a fast car.

(nice sig pic btw)

[Justin B]

Eyes + V1.

Anyone ever install a switch to turn off the rear lights?

Are you talking about making a switch so the brake lights dont flick on? If so, I've considered doing that with my 2002's custom wiring harness that I need to get to designing, as well as a switch that I can turn the brake lights on without hitting the brakes to get people off my ass if they're trailing ON my bumper. Very simple wiring just around the brake actuating switch.

[Larry e30]

The fuzz, I have a passport 8500, so that helps quite a bit, although I wish I would have saved a little bit more money to get a V1. But radar detectors are a false sense of security, you got to know where your going into, theres places I wouldnt dare speeding through even though I have a radar detector. You never know when a cop is gonna flip the switch on and aim directly at you, and you're done. Cops up here are starting to get the Chargers which kinda pisses me off because I had an eagle eye for Crown Vics, but whatever those Chargers/Magnums are pretty easy to spot.

[delatlanta1281]

I thought it was a state to state decision.

[E30SPDFRK]

Cops around here now have gold Honda Accords and CRV's that they pull you over in. It sucks because there are so many of them on the road.

When I need to go fast I usually find someone else going fast and follow them.

[Mulholland]

that cant be legal and if it is, it wont be for long. Anything that interferes with revenue generation quickly becomes illegal

well I'm not so sure it will be deemed illegal so soon, considering the supreme courts ruling on radar detectors and similar devices. Essentially, as long as cops are going to use fancy gizmo's (radar, laser, lidar w/e) we as citizens have a legal right to also use fancy technological gizmo's to observe when we're being monitored. So monitoring their GPS units may cross that line, but monitoring radar wave emission with a similar laptop system (think hyper radar detector) would probably be legal.

however, that supreme court ruling doesn't stop 2 states from banning radar detectors... :hitler:

but to the OP, I use my eyes, general common sense to know where cops hide, habitual patterns like most people... think of how often you hear "never speed there, cops are always there!" but it may be a road you tear as down every day. Ohio in Plano is a huge speed trap at lunch time, but nights I plow from Dallas across Plano all the time doing 20 or so over (6 and 4 lanes across, speed limit = maybe 40 all minimal pedestrian areas... dumb.) do what you know and learn when cops are where and think why, then watch, and get a radar detector.

[delatlanta1281]

DMF
How do I know you and your car???

[DMF]

Eyes + V1.

Anyone ever install a switch to turn off the rear lights?

[delatlanta1281]

Wow
Thanks for the advice OP. It is totally going to come in handy.

[z31maniac]

i dont remember saying to look for them behind you, did i , no i didnt

No but the OP did. In fact, its his first bullet point.

I was replying to him, not you. Have a nice day.