My Lucky Day

Marcone · 01-07-2008, 01:17 PM

I posted this on the turbo board too.. to update a thread about a missing bolt and washers for the turbo i have...

Found the shop that has the bolt i need.. and the brass washers.

Decided to go to them with the car to make sure its the right one..

Only thing is... the car was not licensed yet, meaning i havent transfered the ownership since i bought it from the states to a canadian one, havent registered plates on it.. and didnt transfer my insurance on it yet,(which is mandatory in canada, 2000$ fine if caught)

I figured ... i have a white S2 and the turbo is White.. a white porsche is a white porsche to most cops. They run the plates while driving by and see white porsche.. im good....

So i Put the plates from the registered S2 on to the Turbo and go the 10 miles and get the bolt.

about 3 minutes into my journey, a traffic program hiding around a corner looking for cars that seem suspicious or missing front plates is waiting, they see that i do not have a front plate on... (which is also mandatory here) .. flag me down and inspect the car... ask for the insurance and ownership... which i do not have... I hand him the import papers and proof that i have some sort of insurance (but not on this car) tell him the insurance company is cool with it for two weeks.. (which i hoped he would buy.. LOL) and then he makes me stew in the car for 30 min.

Luckily my insurance company doesnt answer their phones quickly, the cop decides to "trust" me that i have insurance on the car and tells me about the 2k fine he should be giving me, the license suspension i could have and the demerit points i should lose... blah blah blah... impounding of the car that is supposed to happen.. etc... I get slightly worried.

But theres more!

then rolls around some asian guy with a cube van that gets pulled over by his partner, apparently something very illegal must have been going on in the back of that one... The cop comes running over.. hands me the ticket for not having the right plates on the car (170Dollars) and says he didnt have time to get the rest written up.. needs to go to the other car and sort that out which is apparently more important. Tells me to buy a lottery ticket and gives my license back to me. Only stipulation is i had to have the car towed...

The cop had a tow truck on the way... i call my friends tow company... cop says whoever shows first gets the tow... mine shows in 3 minutes and take my car.. Buy him a coffee.. and i got out of the 300 dollar tow and impoundment charges.

WOW what an afternoon..

Marcone · 01-07-2008, 03:45 PM

And before anyone says it.. yes it was completely my stupidity

haha

fbgh2o · 01-07-2008, 03:51 PM

Wow!!! I am getting my new 944 Turbo safetied on Wednesday morning and thought about doing the same thing.... I will be calling a flatbed tomorrow morning!

hpservertech · 01-07-2008, 06:49 PM

Oh man. I've been there done that. Most cops though in the states are usually ok with things. depends on your story and how "trustworthy" you look. I was on my way to get the car inspected, got pulled over. He believed me, but followed me to the inspection place. Could of been worse. At least here they dont impound you car cause it doesn't have insurance. Actually here your not even required by law to have the proof with you, just to have insurance. They will give you a ticket, but if you take your card into them later they tear up the ticket.

Go and buy that lotto ticket now.

Razorback1980 · Razorback1980's Garage

In Texas, you can buy a temporary license for 20 bucks.... It's good for thirty days. Insurance is required and you do have to carry the proof with you. 350 dollar fine for that..please don't ask how I know. But when you take your proof to court, they will let you pay the court costs which are around 50 dollars but it won't go on your record and they don't impound your car. Insurance fines in Canada are pretty stiff...guess you don't want to get one of those.

Not sure if your luck was good because you didn't get the ticket or bad because you ran into that sting operation. Either way, it turned into an expensive bolt, didn't it?

Marcone · 01-08-2008, 08:30 AM

Ya.. apparently the bolt is only like 3 dollars.. haha 173 dollars now

Eldorado · 01-08-2008, 12:30 PM

"Actually here your not even required by law to have the proof with you, just to have insurance. They will give you a ticket, but if you take your card into them later they tear up the ticket."

yea that's what happened to me..
i got pulled over years ago for doing 84 in a 60km zone.. I just got off the highway and was slowing down, but that's another story. anyway, i surrendered my insurance card, and 30 mins later he comes back with my speeding ticket and a ticket for having expired insurance papers... turns out I handed him the wrong paper.. the one in the glove box was expired a couple weeks prior... I handed him the good one out of my wallet and he told me that there was nothing he could do - the ticket was already written.

I went to the ministry offices and showed them I had insurance a couple weeks later and they tore up the ticket.