ticket for tinted tail lights, and a call for help!!

Wish I lived close. I'd help.

 

You're assuming they'll want to give them back after you get your tickie signed off, j/k, haha! Good luck, I'd help you out as well if I lived closer (NorCal here).

 

Wish I could help also....

 

You knew it was illegal.....and yet you complain you got a ticket......just pay the ticket

 

And keep paying each time you make your car illegal.

 

He's not complaining as he understood and assumed the risk. Those of us that mod live by the "pay to play" motto and it is common for like-minded modders or enthusiasts to support eachother out. In Calif fix it tickets are cheap but to keep a mod vs fixing will generally cost you in excess of $150...it's a choice we make....no disagreement there.

I personally hope he can find someone to help out. Cops out here generally don't go after mod violations unless you are pulled over for something else....so if it was strictly for the mod it is a fluke.

 

I don't see any complaining in this thread at all...

 

Yeah...but if you are going to go with the bravado that you are living with the "pay to play" motto, then you can't complain about having to "pay" when you get caught playing at something that is illegal.

Really I'm for personal freedoms, but the routine cry of "I've gotten away with this for years!" and/or "Everyone else is doing it and not getting caught" simply doesn't fly.

I recently got a speeding ticket, and while I think the violation was little more than practiced revenue creation, you know what I did? I paid to play.

 

No sympathy at all.

 

come on guys, this thread isnt about your feelings toward to OP and the tinted tail lights. he clearly stated that understood what he was doing when he tinted the lights. he simply doesnt want to pay the money because its honestly a waste since he wasnt doing anything dangerous. i would gladly help the OP if i was around there.

 

Excuse me I thought he was obscuring his safety equipment to make a fashion statement. If so, he is raising everyone around him chances of having an accident.

I have a great deal of sympathy, for his innocent victims, and hope it keeps costing him until he comes to his senses.

Surely, he can find a fashion statement which does not involve defeating his safety equipment.

 

there isnt much you can do to a car that is legal. putting tints is ticketable. if you had a strict officer, you could even get tickets on HIDs if you have them.

not sure in other states, but in NY, we have a saying, that if a cop wanted to, he would find something to give you a ticket for, even in a new car, right off the dealership floor.

 

This isn't abstract theory.

Tints on taillights make them less visible.

Which results in collisions. Unnecessary collisions.

 

The level of tint he has on his tail lights doesn't obscure anything. Our lights are plenty bright. He never complained. He already said he would pay the ticket. WTH... try reading.

 

If you don't want to help, don't help... it's as simple as that. The anger and hatred isn't necessary.

 

If you are going to Pay to Play, then buy a new set of tail lights, swap back when you are are done.

 

Agreed, from this point forward the focus on this thread really is finding someone with a Prius C that is willing and able to help the OP.

I can respect that we all have our opinions about modifications, safety, etc, and that can be taken to another thread for further disucssion, but generally those types of disucssions get into banter and ultimately end up pointless.

So back on topic, OP is looking for someone that is willing to help him get his ticket signed off that lives in Southern California.

 

"Help me out, please, I'm doing something illegal and would like to borrow your stock parts so I can lie and tell them that I'm legal now".

No sympathy.

No anger and hatred--bafflement is more like it.