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Yellow RX8 must have stealth modes i very rarely stick to the speed limit , have been stopped 3 times , but never booked .

It must be my natural charm , and i do mention to the officer that i have contacts in high places . HYMEE , WILDCARD etc.

My worst captured times was a supposed 175 km in a 70km zone however after re: reading his speed laser he suggested that it may have been misreading my speed by 105km ha.ha.ha. and gave me smile and a suggestion of slowing down .

My natural charm worked once again .

HAddock good to see you come out of hybernation.

michael

 

Guys, the brighter the car, the more reflective it is to radar & laser.

In the case about the rego plates, I am talking laser detecion as thats the 1st point the cop aims at for a signal.

If your in VIC & change the paint of your front plate from its gloss black background to a matt black background. You will reduce your (laser) detection range by a noticable amount. (radar by a lesser amount)

In NSW, the white background plates (talking NSW premium design here) despite changing the glossy white backgrond to a matt white will not reap the same reduction in detection range that the VIC plates will get.

I agree that the cops can't hold a steady (pencil like) laser beam on your plate but its the plate that gives the best reflections back to the laser gun. A quick pan across the front of the car & before you can blink its picked up a signal from plate relections before any other part of the car reflects.

This is why the reflectivity of the plate has to be brought down to where it equals the rest of the car. Thus giving a reduction in detection range.

Example........ a Black RX-7 (sleek, low, pop up lights) with Vic rego plates is much harder to detect meaning its laser range could be just 150m

Example......... a yellow RX-8 (fatter, taller, exposed lights) with NSW regos plates is much easier to detect meaning its laser range could be 300m

(dont quote me on those ranges, there educated estimates)

The 150m difference could be enough time to spot the cops & slow down to a normal speed before they can get a fix on you.

 

Dental emergency... oh wow. Just kidding.

I feel much better now....

 

Hey, the cop doesn't know any better, and for the sake of emergencies, have you heard of ludwigs angina!

 

Submandular abscess.. I have my Merck manual next to me. If they die with airway obstruction I don't think even your RX-7 is fast enough!

Hey I also found this page re: radar detector
http://www.radarlaser.com.au/hist9750.htm

 

130 kph in a 60 zone is way too fast. The cop should have taken your licence away for 6 months.

 

They couldn't determine the speed. They were not behind me, and no speed detection method used. They saw me from a side street.

This too is dangerous driving:

"If you are travelling east down Melbourne st, and then turn left into Mann Tce at 60 kph with the foot down, in third gear, with DSC and TC off, it takes about 5 seconds before the back end kicks in after a massive fish tail. I have reliably proved this after my third test."

 

Yes, it is. But there was no cop to see it.

 

well then, lets not judge.



have a nice new year all!

 

That's not the point. You were doing double the speed limit, and a cop saw you. So he might not be able to get you for speeding, but he could for dangerous driving.

I don't care if you are doing that speed, personally, unless it is down my street or you hurt someone I know if you crash.

But the cop has a job to do and he should have done it.

 

Now dbb, I don't want to get into a slanging match. But lets get things staright, the situation was: Dequetiville Terrace, 6am Sunday morning, No cars on the road, let alone pedestrians or bikes.

My car: 1989 MX5, modified everything including brakes and suspension. At 100km/hr can out brake a commodore doing 60km/hr. At 130km/hr can out brake many "road worthy" registered cars doing 60km/hr, including old beetles, kingswoods, datsun 120y's, corollas, etc. I am not reckless and would not speed down a side street. My driving skills, I believe, are very good. Yes I was above the limit, but the circumstances were safe.

You think I should have lost my licence. You are judging me!

However you turn corners at 60km/hr with the tail hanging out.

It is my opinion that 130km/hr in a straight line is safer than fishtailing a croner at 60km/hr. More cars and pedestrians are dmaged around corners than in a straight line. You believe that because there are no cops around what you are doing is OK. I do not judge you.

 

People that come to my emergency department is not driving fast but driving drunk... or just can't drive.

I have been the trauma registrar for 6 months at one of the major trauma centre in Melbourne and have not seen a person with highly modified / or even sport car that come in badly injured.

The worst are the old commandore drivers.... no offense but when I saw them with smashed pelvis and cracked skull. I doubt their courage to go even 20 kmh over the limit let alone they are also drunk.

 

Isn't repainting your number plate illegal? I am fairly sure that it is in queensland anyway...

Cheers,
Max

 

Motor traffic law is more powerful than criminal law. Picking your nose in a car is probably illegal. as would be scratching, burping, farting & looking sideways at the hot blonde with the ****........

Its a question of what you can get away with.

At a glance, a matt white background instead of a gloss white background is not going to attract the attention of anyones eye unless oyu point it out & have another plate for them to directly compare to.

The aim is to reduce the reflective coating & gain some range in your favour against the LIDAR.

REgards

 

Why not try Lock & Loads idea and remove the front number plate completely and replace it with a sticker on the front bumper? Is that legal to do?

 

why? you can still see the number plate

 

The repainting of the plate is intended to reduce the detection range of a handheld laser gun by reducing the reflectivity of the plate. It's not designed to make the plate unreadable to speed cameras and the like. Replacing the plate with a sticker on the bumper would reduce plate reflection to zero - but it's the extreme solution!

 

So if we painted the car with non laser/radar reflective paint???

 

Or what about a bumper bar that was shaped like a strealth fighter? The 'Hymee stealth kit'. You could package it with the grill.

Oh yes, did a little searching on the net. A typical police laser has a dispersal of 3 mils. That means the dot is 3ft wide at 1000ft.

 

Hooray..........

Seems someone finally understands what I have been saying.

I think a "sticker" of the plate instead of the actual thing would attract to much unwanted attention.

The idea here is to get about un-noticed.

 

what sort of "sticker" are you referring to then?

 

As per L&L's 'show and tell RX-8' thread.