You know how some people just have the knack of getting away with it?

Well.....having booked my RST in for its MOT tomorrow morning, this afternoon I decided it would be a good idea to go fill the car up with fuel and check the tyre pressures at my local garage, to save bothering in the morning.
I have to admit I did think twice about doing so and I knew I ran the risk of getting stopped.
Acht its only a few miles to the petrol station, it will be cool, Right?!

So off I went, It was the first i'd driven the car on the road with Zetec Turbo engine installed and I have to say it feels great!
I arrive at the fuel station fill it up & sort the tyre preassures and off home I head.

So there I am heading home a total or maybe 10miles traveled and guess what I see?
You guessed it traffic cops in a fully marked up BM!
Im less that one minuite from home and just knew that they were going to follow.
So I take a bit of a detour and take the less obvious road(which happens to pass my brothers house) hoping they arent quick enough off the mark and assume i've taken the other (main) road WRONG!!!

They did follow and did stop me. CAPTURED!

So with their blue lights on I pull over, it happened to be right outside my brothers. After having checking my Tax, I'm then asked to take a seat in the back of their car, fortunatly I had my Driving Licence and Insurance docs in the car, so i grabbed them and produced them.

Knowing that I'd been pulled about the tax I decide that the best policy is to be honest with them. I explain the situation and acknowledge that I know im in the wrong
Looking at my driving licence the question is then asked "what are you doing here then?"
out blurbs "my brother lives here"
"You werent going to see your brother though were you" I think I was asked?..............told is maybe more accurate!
"um NO!" I replied

Some how I then manage (and I cant remember exactly how) to admit to trying to evade them by taking a non direct route home....oppps

To my surprise I am then thanked for my honesty and done with driving without displaying a current tax disk Ł60 fixed penalty.
Driving without a current MOT certificate Ł60 fixed penalty.

Whilst in the car I said to the copper, "to be honest I knew it was a chance I was taking, I saw you sitting there and guessed that with the technoligy you have I was going to get stopped"
The driver politely replied "I was the technoligy"
I guess an old RS Turbo must just have set off his radar, acht well!

Its a risk I knew I was taking, just shows you that in my case
"I wont just get away with it" lesson learned.

Thinking about it now, in a way im fortunate I could have had my car taken away, I guess being so close to home helped.

 

have the police in scotland got this automatic number plate recognision thing like down south andy?

 

Did you get points mate?

 

Unlucky, Andy. If i get stopped I'm always civil and honest to them. I think it gets you further.

I've been down the being an arsehole to them route and it didn't work out very well.

 

same as that mate Ł60 lighter for no mot..........

i didnt no it had expired.

passed with flying colours next day aswell

 

Col I assumed they did as it had a cylinder type thing on the roof, from his response I gathered that it was intuition that led him to follow me not number recognition.

Euan I was cautioned and so long as the fines are payed in time no further action will be taken!!

 

aint to bad mate, to be honest, had you just stayed on course they may not have had you.

Best way to be with a copper is eat humble pie and don't fek em about, be friendly and 9 times out of 10, they will either give you a ticking off, or give you the leanest of penalties which is what they did.

I don't like police in general, the older ones are the best, the young ones are cocks, but at the end of the day, if they catch you with your nickers down, you have to play nice in order to avoid an easy rogering!!

 

As much as i have never wanted to cival is definately the best policy. one night i got pulled up 5 times in my magenta saff as i was only 19. the last time i jumped out the car and approached him with my arms in the air.

Not a good move. was put over the bonnet cuffed and taken to ploice station to (calm Down).

Lesson learned.

Could not agree more to the young ones being cocks statement.

 

To true Stoo, my fault no point getting arsey with them.

 

Unlucky mate......

.....but as you say some people get away with - like my mate in his 21T this weekend on the M69 just outside Coventry - decided to try and race an unmarked police 07 plate black Focus ST with a female copper driving - she was doing 115 warp speeds & he was doing 121 warp speeds......all he got was....


......a caution & told to go & behave himself! LOL!

 

Unlucky Andy, although got off lightly possibly!

good luck wi the MOT tomorow!

 

@ your mate Lee.
Dave its in tip top shape, It ought to sail through

 

It will aye!, we've got a WOSRSOC meet to attend

 

if your car is booked in for a MOT doesnt that mean you can drive it as long as the garage van back you up or is this just a myth i heard ??????

 

and crail on sunday!

Just dont think about the last time you went to tak eit to a show Andy

 

Think I may have screwed up on the dates Dave, think it was last week? Maybe?

Still Crail on Sunday will be good, hope it stays dry

 

Ah no worries, I go work on my car on a wed anyhoo!

Crail will be good, hopefully it's not pissing it down

Euan supplying the ho's in the pimp wagon?

 

just dusting off my pimp stick and jacket

 

If driving directly to the MOT station and if its bookeed in! Its legal.
I was'nt the direction of my travel sugested I wasnt going directly there too. So there was no way id have even considered trying to run that one by them.

 

DONT!

 

Remember Euan, Green for the money 'n Gold for the Honey

 

If you look at them with all the fear in the world and pat your car like a brother you will be amazed at what you can get away with. I would have felt put out with the fines lol!!!! Moral of the story, do it in a cossie lol

 

they wouldnt have caught you in a cossie!

 

You sound like you have experience Dave!

 

yeah im with you andy


im one of the chaps that never get away with anything

 

Just before christmas I got pulled for doing 44 in a 30. Being 18 I thought I was going to get fucked. But all i got was a breathalyzer test and told to take it easy. I was totaly honest with them saying i didnt realise that i was going that speed and that i was sorry for doing so..

Lucky

 

not so good bud,we all do it though eh!!! c u shorttly m8,could have been lot worse!!!

 

No real harm done thankfully then.

Good luck on the MOT!

 

andy, as i said yesterday i'd expect them to grass to the dvla! you're lucky if they dont




*pats car* its ma baby

 

Lucky there Andy.

I got pulled over on sunday morning doing 110mph on the M23 coming back to London.
Unmarked X Type Jag. The copper was a really nice bloke.took mine and my friends details said give him 5 mins and see what he needs to do. He came back and said do i want the good or bad news? i said bad first - which was i am going to be late for football now.....so i said wats the good news?? he said as i had a clean license and i wasnt driving dangerously and it wasnt busy at 11am.........he didnt want to dirty my license and told me to take it easy from now on............was soooooooooo lucky as if i lost my license my job goes the same way

so lesson learnt there!!! so would say i am pretty lucky

 

Aye disnae pay to be a twat to the police ..............................i did it long time ago and they made sure i regretted it stopped all the time accused of drink driving and being a dodgy taxi service at 2am ......................they stopped me i paused my cd player in the car and the track time was flashing at about 2.45 and the daft bollock tried to say it was a meter in the car lol lol lol i said really so unpaused it for some Bon-Jovi to belt his bollocks out with 'livin on a prayer' fookin tube .................... still proceeded with any way possible to stop me tho.

 

Sounds like you were very lucky - glad to hear the s2 is now running.

How'd the MOT go? I'll hopefully see you up Crail on Sunday.

 

Yea i usually feel the long arm of the law, had 1 instance on my home late at night, had a car come up behind and thought it was a mate in his mondeo, put me foot down n went 80mph into a sharp bend drifting the ass end of the van round, thought it strange he stuck with me cause no one else i knew dared to take the bend as fast, soon realised wat it was when the blues came on. mondeo st220 traffic car, when i pulled over he was really polite and said it was a good show!!! he said unfortunately cause he had radioed it in, he had to do something but instead of persuing the dangerous driving and driving without due care and attention route, (and cause i let him have a fag when he asked lol) he said he'd be leaniant and i only got 3pts for doing 36 in the 30 zone 4 miles back.
Another one was when i was doing 60 in a 30 and when pulled told him i was going to help a mate who locked his keys in his boot and it was pissing down with rain, got a slap on the wrist and let go.
Politeness goes a long way

 

Thankfully it sailed through
I remembered why I love RS's today, the poping & banging from the exhaust, the induction note, the sounds as you lift off, all good.
On the flipside there's the imperfections that come as part and parcel with a 18year old car. It needs a fair bit of work needing done just to bring the car back upto scratch, some of which will be addressed before Crail others that can wait.

 

you wanna run it in up my way?

 

aye cany beet the old scorts,car will be sound for crail,its drivin well,its been good puting the car how it should be,it may even keep up with ma old sccort once its mapped,lol.catch you soon.

 

not so good andy, shame about the fine but still pretty lucky it wasnt worse...although not as lucky as we were not that long ago when we got pulled on the motorway

 

Tut tut,very naughty mate lol!

Good to see that the motor is up and running and hope the MOT was all good! Will see you at Crail on Sunday! You meeting at Queensferry?

 

Wul top man I know you've put in the hours getting it in tip top shape, cheers, it really is appreciated
black scoob. Scott thats a story for another day, what can be said about that; 155+mph a propper police persuit and we walk away with a ticking off!!!! haha!
Saw your baby today its fair looking good, love the ceramic coating on the manifolds, color works well with the car hopefully it shouldnt be long now mate.
Taylor will see you at McD's bright and early Sunday morning!