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A 4 part question...... Has anyone ever been done for speeding in a 996 and is man enough to admit it on this board? If so, did you have a detector on board? If so what type? If you have never been done for speeding in your 996, do you have a radar detector on board or not? My answer to my own question is:- I Have never been done for speeding in 30,000 miles. I have a Python 360 laser detector on board. I do not speed simply because I have a detector on board. Many times I do drift over the limit.
Through 8 911s over the years, I've never been stopped for speeding in one of them. I have, however, been stopped in "lesser" cars. And I don't have a radar/laser detector. Typically, I drive at maybe 10 mph over the limit - exception anywhere near a school.
No tickets in the 911 and until this summer in the Cayenne never in a car that I paid more than $30k for. Picked em up like litter in my old 94 Duster, my 98 Golf was pretty good for that too, and a couple in my 04 Escape. My 2 e30s cost more than $30k, but I paid substantially less so I'm not sure how they fit in the correlation (no tickets). Don't drive any different based on the car I'm driving, so I can't explain it as I view speed limit signs as a suggestion
We've been running V1s since 98, but over the last couple of years I don't bother to move it between cars any more. So mine sits in the Cayenne all the time and I drive the 911 without it. Again, no difference in driving style.
40k miles on my 997, bought new 7+ years ago. No tickets, but neither have I had any in either of my other cars in the same span of time, and quite a few more miles total. All driven in the same manner - with the flow of traffic or slightly faster. When I just bought the 997, which is my first P-Car, I did a few crazy things, and was surprised that I got away with them. Got a few warning flashes from cruisers but never pulled over.
I don't carry a radar detector because to me they are an automatic admission of guilt - everyone speeds where I live, in Boston area; sometimes the traffic moves as much as 20 mph over the limit.
Yes, no, I was pulled over on a back country road here in south Jersey rt47 in the twists doing 70 in a 50. That being said the only two people on 47 that day was I heading south and a state trooper heading north. As soon as we saw each other he did a you turn and I just pulled over. I was busted and have great respect for our law enforcement . He pulled up in back and came up to the window and smiled ..... Nothing really needed to be said , I had everything ready for him and a stack of F.O.P cards that I keep in my wallet.
His reply was are you heading home back to the shore? Mine Yes sir, he said did you know you don't have a front plate ? I said yes sir , I don't like the way it make her look. . He said then please be a little more gentile with her . I said I would , he gave me a Tix for no front plate and I was on my way..
The moral being support law enforcement , shown respect , and always give them a second option ! Paid the $65 on line when I got home !!
By the way , he loved my 996c4s cab!!!!
The moral being support law enforcement , shown respect , and always give them a second option
Sound like the last I got in the Escape. Came around a corner doing 20+ over and the laser went off in the V1. I couldn't see him, but I knew where he was sitting (not regularly there, but if they were there was a single spot) so I went a head and pulled over. We go through the usual "how fast" banter and as he is writing my VIN down he noticed the V1 (illegal in VA) and the following was:
Him: what's that?
Me: radar detector.
Him: you know those are illegal?
Me: yes.
Him: didn't do you any good did it?
Me: you didn't have to chase me did you? (He didn't have to move his cruiser)
After he got done laughing he wrote me a plain speeding ticket far lower than what we both know I was doing. Didn't even ticket me for the V1
It boggles my mind that people give cops crap for doing their job when they know they were breaking the law. I find as long as you are respectful and don't try to give them a bunch of BS excuses they are generally pretty cool people. I have run into a couple bad ones though and it is a shame they are out there.
4 of my 5 Porsches have been guards red. The cops never seem to even notice me.
Seriously though, of the red ones, I only got a ticket in the 964, although my son got 2 in the 951. The black '99 aero coupe was a freaking cop magnet. Never had a radar detector in any of them.
The 996tt has a Passport 9500 built in system and an additional laser jammer/diffuser. It is making me a believer again.
My last ticket was in 1992 in my 1986 Porsche 944. 88mph in a 55. Did not have a detector that day. My first detector was a Super Snooper I bought in the mid-seventies. The last detector I purchased was a Passport 8500 I bought in the late nineties and I still use in it in my BMW wagon. My 911 came hardwired with a Passport SRX.
In re-reading the original post, I'm not sure I answered all of Hurdi's questions. Am I man enough? Well after a quick Google search, I found this and realized that "No, I am not nearly man enough":
Not yet (knock on wood) although God knows I've been a prime candidate more than a few times. Haven't had a speeding ticket in 24 years by some miracle or another.
Originally Posted by Hurdigurdiman
and is man enough to admit it on this board?
Hmmm, interesting question. Man enough to admit to a previous ticket on an anonymous forum where anyone can write any smack that they feel like with no consequences? Shouldn't take Shaft to man up to that. Would I man up by posting a video showing the said infraction(s), a shot of the speedo, the vehicle plate and my face/name? Hell no!
Originally Posted by Hurdigurdiman
If so, did you have a detector on board?
No detector. Only my eyes, a good brain with enough intelligence to miss the obvious speed trap locations and the requisite horseshoe rammed sideways up my _ _ _ for good luck.
01-03-2016, 02:34 PM
Is anyone man enough?
