Ticketed much?

[Mark63021]

Attempting a simple poll here… I’m wondering how everyone’s faired in terms of moving violations with their Genesis sedans. There’s information out there indicating some car models are more prone than others in attracting the eyes of police officers. I know this won’t be a scientific study, I’m just wondering about impressions, and if there are any outlandish trends among us –like none have had even one speeding ticket, or 9 out of ten have.


Here’s some interesting reading around the topic:

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[Cut-Throat]

Got pulled over once for an illegal U-Turn.....Got a Warning for a clean record.

The Cop wrote on the Warning Ticket that the Car was a Chrysler....Damn, I was hoping for a Bentley

 

[EXBMWGUY]

I really question some of the theories out there, based on my own experience. I have not had a real moving violation since 1994, when I had a speeding-while-passing (failure to slow down) ticket that I went to court with, paid the fine and they didn't put in on my record. For reference, I was in a white Lexus LS. I was in the cattle-call and it was close lunchtime. Because I plead guilty with an explanation, the judge (who I think was hungry) "suggested" that maybe I was doing 1 mph under the limit where it couldn't be kept off my record and that I should get my speedometer calibrated.

I went until 2008 when, over the course of 10 months, I had 5 warnings, all speed related, in a black Toyota Avalon. That was when I was driving 130 miles a day. Two of the warnings were from the same state trooper on the same two-lane highway in the middle of farmland, almost in exactly the same spot! He didn't remember me, just asked exactly the same questions and issued the same polite words of caution. I expect someday I might get an invitation to his daughter's wedding!

No tickets or warnings in my BMW and nothing (so far) in my black R-Spec.

 

[wheines]

My last ticket was for a noisy muffler...and that was in 1957. I asked the cop about his motorcycle being louder then my mufflers. He said, 'That's OK because it's made like that. To this day I haven't figured out his logic...noise is noise, right?

 

[EXBMWGUY]

My last ticket was for a noisy muffler...and that was in 1957. I asked the cop about his motorcycle being louder then my mufflers. He said, 'That's OK because it's made like that. To this day I haven't figured out his logic...noise is noise, right?

Are you sure he was a cop and not a politician?

 

[SterlingDave]

My last ticket was in 1982 for speeding...59MPH on an interstate in rural Colorado back when the national speed limit was 55! I guess I just don't speed too much or I'm careful when I do. (knock on wood)

 

[Ruissimo]

Only ticket I ever got was back in 1994, coming back from a Nirvana concert. 70 in a 55 zone - two months later, that stretch of highway became 65mph... ticket was $302.00 -- back in 1994, do you realize how much money that was to a 19 year old college kid?

When I went to "court" (a dude behind a desk), I was asked if I was speeding. I said no. He knocked it down to excessive speed under conditions, I paid $40 bucks and went on my way

 

[bobshine]

My last moving violation was in 1973 for illegal right hand turn in downtown Houston Texas on my way to interview for a job with the Houston Police Department. One of the "ice cream" cart traffic guys pulled me over and wrote the ticket.

 

[scottdk]

My last ticket was for a noisy muffler...and that was in 1957. I asked the cop about his motorcycle being louder then my mufflers. He said, 'That's OK because it's made like that. To this day I haven't figured out his logic...noise is noise, right?

Ha! I remember you mentioning this on my exhaust thread a couple years ago. Truly funny!

 

[Stoofpilot]

Last summer in my wife's Genesis. 86 in a 70. Reduced to improper equipment. No point, no insurance report.

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[EXBMWGUY]

Last summer in my wife's Genesis. 86 in a 70. Reduced to improper equipment. No point, no insurance report.

You're in sales, right?

 

[Gunkk]

Pulled over for 46 in a 35. Gave cop the wrong registration by mistake (had copies of 2 different ones in my car for some reason), so he wrote me a $10 ticket for that instead. He spent most of the time asking me questions about the car.

 

[Stoofpilot]

Yes, 35 years in Sales. Retired VP of Sales.

 

[EXBMWGUY]

Yes, 35 years in Sales. Retired VP of Sales.

I knew it!

 

[dsiles]

I was stopped on the Indiana turnpike a month ago while traveling to Ohio. Cop pulled me over for 85 in 70, but wrote me a warning. When he asked if I knew how fast I was going I told him no, I just set the adaptive speed control and let it manage the speed. He was nice about it. Last real ticket was in 2001, but never made the record with court supervision.

 

[Henry]

I have found that having a radar detector is the way I solved the problem or at least I get an alert as to what is going on. This is especially true with my new Equus, you just don't realize that you are speeding.
Never leave the garage with out it.

 

[Crusty Old Shellback]

In the Genney, I've gotten one ticket for running a red light. Damn cameras.

I'm suppried I haven't gotten a speeding ticket yet, nock on wood. I've hit the other side of 100 more times than I can count on my fingers and toes. And it dosen't take long to get there either.

But I got two tickets and a warning on my Harley one day. One for speeding in a school zone. Couldn't see the sign and this is probably the only school zone sign in town that Dosen't have the flashing lights on it.

Got my warning for riding on the shoulder of the road passing cars. I had stopped to put on my jacket and was driving slowley along the side of the cars making my way to the freeway onramp control light. Cop didn't like that but just gae me a warning.

By then I was mad so I got on the freeway and was trying to make my way over to the left to split traffic with all the other bikes. Truck in front of me did a sudden stop and so I swerved left to avoid him and started splitting traffic. I had just looked over my left shoulder and saw nothing before I moved over. Next thing I know, I got lights flashing and a cop on his bull horn yelling at me. I pulled over and two bike cops pull up. One starts giving me the third degree about how I cut him off. He then has the other cop write me a ticket for crossing a double yellow line into the carpool lane. I beleive they were on their way home from work and the loud mouth was out of his jurisdiction so he had his buddy write me up.

Final outcome. Did traffic school and paid the fine for the school zone so it didn't go on my record. I fought the double yellow line ticket and won. Got my money back and nothing on my record.