If you don't mind, please post a picture of your VI ticket (blacking out your personal info). It is useful to know the exact item that an officer is citing you for. IMO, if that is not correct, it shows the officer doesn't know what he is doing / talking about, and is therefore poorly trained. That gives you grounds to file a complaint on him.
You have the officer's name and badge number. If he was spreading mis-information, I recommend you to file a complaint on him as well.
According to the MVA, a vehicle can only be too low if:
1) the headlights are too low (lower than 56cm)
2) any part of your vehicle is lower than the lowest part of your wheels
3) the change in suspension height is more than 10cm
Now, the CVSE vehicle inspection manual does contain an item under the "Steering" section that requires the (front) tires to have at least 1" or 25mm clearance from the body, fender, or other parts. From an inspection's point of view, a lowered vehicle is more likely going to violate this than any vehicle lowering / suspension ride height / ground clearance clauses that the MVA or CVSE inspection manual would contain. If the traffic officer is citing that your vehicle is too low, I think that could potentially serve as something we can file a complaint on.
I will elaborate more on that in a later post. Got some stuff to take care of at home before I can sit down to write properly. (But now I guess I have just given away another tip to Cain & Co. to avoid screwing up.)
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Originally Posted by SmileyFace
I just got a VI today. Before getting the VI, I had no idea that this was going on. I was driving 50km/h with 2000rpm on Granville St. And all of a sudden a black undercover pulled me over. I pulled over and the cop came to me asked me for license and insurance, and told me my car was too loud and it’s too low with illegal modified camber. BTW I drive a 2007 GTI with turboback and pss10 coilover. I was driving 50km/h with 2000rpm, how was my car loud. Any truck or bus drove pass by would make a louder noise than my car. Then the cop asked me to rev my car to 3000rpm, then he went tested it with a sound measure and said I exceeded the sound test (he said he had 96db). He wrote me a ticket for unnecessary noise $109 and another ticket that I have to go to VW for an inspection. I asked the cop I wasn’t even speeding or reving at all, why would you give me the tickets. I had the car for almost 8 years and the mods was done by the previous owner. He said I was disturbing the neighboorhoods and all modified cars shouldn’t have existed because they are illegal. For the whole conversation, I was being as polite and respectful as I could. However, the cop’s attitude was very aggressive, mean and rude. I definitely didn’t do anything disturbing to the neighboorhood, but I felt disturbed by him. I went to VW right after the incident and asked about the inspection. The guy at VW told me about the story behind all these and told me even some stock porsche got VI for no reason. That’s just ridiculous.
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