Fucking pigs, got fuck all better to do. giving me the old 'If someone stepped out infront of you and you braked with those tyres, they would be dead'

So i said 'See that *pointed to car* That would outbrake you twice over on bare rims! Now get on with the tickets, i'm expected home!'

Obviously i said this AFTER they started writing tickets, i'm not that stupid, i was just waiting in anticipation for the momment they decide to do me so i could let rip and let them know what a bunch of pricks they are.

He had a go at me and said 'When i'm behind you with blue lights, and flashing my headlights, that means pull over!'

I said 'No it doesn't, that gives me the impression you want to pass me.....if you want me to pull over for you, you use your indicator to tell me that you want me to stop the car'

Ahhhh there were loads of things i wanted to get of my chest to them, make myself a right pain in the arse.

He goes 'Got any distictive marks or tattoos?' I said 'no, but i got a huge mole on my arse if you want to inspect it?'

They didn't even crack a smile, cold hearted peices of shit!

So anyway, after i got the tickets and i asked them if they didn't have bigger fish to fry, i inspected his car top to bottom and the whole fucking lot was brand spanking Then he asks 'Why have you got fishing rods in the car?' Again, i couldn't help myself, it had to be said....'Because i went fishing' lol

Anyhow, all this spawned from me passing them at circa ***mph, and them doing a 3 pointer. I kept the foot hard down when i saw them turn, in a hope that i would eventually loose them....it took them the best part of 4 miles to catch up with me once i came behind some prat doing about 20mph.

Anyway, thats my licence lost, i'm unlucky in court cos i got a big mouth, so i'm looking at around 9 points which added to my current 10 means i loose the licence.

Ah well, Time to use the French one eh

 

Sorry chap but speeding on bald tyres is just plain stupidity and I dont think you have a legimate beef. Self inflicted injury imo.

Cam

 

Borderline bald..... How the hell he could tell they were 0.1 of a milimetre worn over the legal tread by eye i don't know! Must be some sort of special skill they are taught? Who knows?

Anyway, i just remembered another thing whilst sitting here going over and over what happened.

When he first went touching my tyres up i asked him what he was doing, and he came out with 'Seeing how hot your tyres are to prove you were speeding!'

What a crock of shite indeed, do they really think i am that stupid? I wasn't having none of that bollocks and just said 'Ahhh, right.....ok'

P.s Its ok though, i've already written a 3 page letter to his super, see what he thinks of the sort of clowns he has running about the place.

 

IMO people who run an dodgy tyres are asking for it, we all know what bastards they can be these days so its best to allwyas be on top of things like that then they can never get you for anything.

 

Sorry mate you only have yourself to blame

If your tyres are so boarder line have them checked at a MOT Garage and see what they say.

 

like i said, 0.1mm within when they were checked 3 weeks ago.

I'm not an irrespocible owner, as this is what most seem to be implying

I check tyre pressures every second day, tread wear, suspension, and lights.

I like to get my monies worth out of toyos as even when they are reaching the end of their life, they are still shit hot tyres. I just think its absolutely rediculous that you get points for it! Its total bollocks this country

 

I can also see what your saying though dude, we do get shafted by the bastards

 

I can also see what your saying though dude, we do get shafted by the bastards

 

I would have measured them in front of the coppers.It sounds like you pissed him off though mate and he was gonna do you for something anyway.Bet he feels great and doing a worthwhile job while his mates are running around london with guns lookin for suicide bombers.

 

Sorry dude but the tyres are the part of the car in contact with the road. I dont care if you have Brembo ceramics the size of dinner plates if the road was wet from a sudden shower you're lock em up in an instant.
And show some respect when you're caught in the wrong. Perhaps losing your license will give you some humility.

 

Maybe they were borderline and rather than let them become potentially unsafe and illegal, thought it safer to book you for them. He wouldnt have known you were not going to drive on them for the next year and be responsible for a pile up on a motorway.

In all honesty, when would you have changed them if you check them regularly?

 

How can you show respect when all they do is victimise motorists and try to screw every penny out of you with speed cameras?I had absolutely zero respect for the law here but after they caught those suicide bombers a few weeks ago I now have a little.

 

Well there are good cops and bad cops and I've met both but if you treat them with no respect then some of them will develop an attitude thats worse so your best bet is to respect the law. Some laws can be bent and some can be broken but best show the rozzers some respect and maybe they'll cut you some slack.

BTW - you can't respect a GATSO

 

Yeah i find people who are cocky tend to get done for more things, i just keep my gob shut its easyer in the long run as they will do you for anything possible

 

Nope but you can feed it an oil filled tyre.

 

hang on mate..
they just took your name and address for your tyres etc..

you said 'hurry up im expected home'

then went screaming past them flat out?!?
it wouldnt of mattered if they waited till you were at home then surely!

sorry mate, i know what Heat of the moment is like.

 

Borderline bald.. that sound like a rape case of a 16 year old

sorry bald tyres SUCK

 

deserve all you get with bad tyres, dont moan about it

 

To be honest mate you are lucky they didn't nick you for failing to stop for police - its an arrestable offence now.

If you'd showed a bit of remorse you might have only got done for one tyre or even none. Remember nobody likes a smart arse. Everyone else's advice sound like good common sense to me. Nobody likes a jobsworth but if you've done wrong you've got to bite your tongue a bit and take it i'm afraid.

 

Good point and advice

 

When i got stopped for 2 bald tyres about 2 yrs ago, he gave me some sort of form that i had to get them changed within a week, and get it stamped at an m.o.t garage for proof then take it into the cop shop, no points/fine nothing, i've never had bald tyres since but that was a good idea i thought

 

Only three things that need to be 100% on a car every time!!

1) Tyres
2) Brakes
3) Steering

 

So worn out dampers, ball joints, swing arm bushes and wheel bearings dont count then

 

ratty - they come under brakes and steering

 

BULLSHIT what about the other week when that copper was being sound and you was being all mouthy

 

Didn't realise rear swing arm bushes, dampers etc where now steering and braking componts, how silly of me

 

what about wheel nuts

 

Its a shame as they did seem to want to get you for something,regardless,but if you are that close to to limit,then maybe you should have invested a little in new rubber,on the other hand there is no need for them to go over the car with a fine comb just because you are a bit pissed at being pulled,
Just maybe as the others have said if you had shown them a bit of respect they might have cut you a little slack,maybe......

 

if you'd feel safe driving a car like that mate!
not saying my car is the fastest thing anywhere,, but its definitly more
powerful than your 'average' family car, and i just wouldnt feel safe
if something like that was not right with it especially with any extra power the car might have,, if you see what i mean!

look what happened to B16 LRP

 

 

 

You have only got yourself to blame mate and saying "boderline" is no good mate cause if they were they would of just warned you about them tyre`s

 

im assuming they marked the tyres too so ya cant keep using em, well they dont that to a load of cars on my road when they was checking out tyres and tax discs

sorry but even though im a cunt, if ive been tugged and im doing something wrong then even i have to admit defeat

get a garage to cheack the tyres to confirm and get a report of em, if there borderline there LEGAL, dont mean there any good though but all of us have driven a car with a bald tyre even if its not noticed, hell i had 2 bald tyres on me cabrio when i was using the cossie every day, never new about it as inever looked, wasnt till i hit a patch of water on the M1 that i went along the motorway and realised there was something up, the inside 2 inchs where flat, not canvas but flat

get em checked and see what ya can do, if there not illegal but border line then work a case together and prove it, needs to be done like today though as a week later aint gonna cut the mustard, also proof ya bought new tyres too ect

3 bald tyres are dangerous if they was bald, thats why they issue points for each tyre to make sure you check em all the time, 1 bald tyre or even 2 can be done easy supose, 3 is hard to do though

not saying like the others who drive like cocks yet like to point the finger and make fun when others get nicked

just saying that with 9 points as i ave ya gotta be carefull (or have a back up plan )

fi ya even need to get about ill loan ya me oyster card

 

The legal limit is 1.6mm and you were at 1.7mm a month ago? I reckon there's a good chance you are under the limit now.

As a major fleet operator, and in common with most of the industry, we change all our tyres at 2mm, but lots of people say they should be changed at 3mm.

Most of the part-worn tyres sold in this country are the ones that have reached the higher legal limits elsewhere in europe, then get shipped off here for a second life.


"Edited because I can't count!"

 

Shit mate thats shit !!!

Dont wanna jump on the bandwaggon or anything and im not a fan of the police lets just say

but a few weeks back i thought shit look at my tyres , when i had jacked my car up 2 fronts , they legal but didnt have long , so i bloody skint myself getting 2 toyo`s for this reason , us driving the types of cars we do and generally put the foot down more than most are 100 times more likely to get pulled over and tyres etc checked like a few ppl said tyres are probably the most important thing about a car on the road and since i put my new ones on i can feel a GREAT difference and feel a bit safer

 

No ones fault but your own. If you measured them 3 weeks ago and they were 0.1mm off being illegal then they will be foooooked by now

Enjoy public transport

 

a old mate of mine used to collect failures from germany and sell em here as part worns

they had loads of tread on em, but respect for the german goverment fo getting rid of there old tyre problem,,,,,,,,, sell em to another country as tyres are the hardest thing to distroy safely, they dont rot, ya cant burn em and theres only so many tyrewalls a car track can have, infact i remember when councils where using em as swings ect to help rid the problem

we just need to raise the legal limit and flog em to france where the sell em as part worns

 

when u get done for bald tyres, is it purely down to the coppers opinion?

ie no PROOF is needed?

surely they can just stitch you up and say the tyres are bald even when they blatantly not and there NOTHING you can do about it?

 

Bad luck but you've just got to deal with it .........

 

Itsmeagain, they have to measure them and the tread depth must be below 1.6mm across the central 3/4 of the tread to be illegal.



You would have to dispute their measurements there and then if you think they are stitching you up so they can get more coppers on the scene