Just installed PPE headers (catless) paired with joez race exhaust, LOVE the tone, however I was paranoid driving home wondering if ill get a ticket because its so loud.

In the event I do get a exhaust ticket for being too loud, does anyone body know If I can just pay a fine and be done with the ticket, or do I have to get it fixed and have a cop sign off thats its been removed? just curious.........

 

Yes, you'll get a ticket if it's too loud. That's assuming a CHP or PD vehicle is driving behind you and cares enough to pull you over.

You'll have to go to an authorized testing center to have a CHP referee measure the noise (95 db) from 20 ft. away and have it signed off. Although I would be more concerned if they do a visual test and found out you don't have primary/secondary cats - as emissions is a major stickler point for CHP enforcement.

http://www.cent-21.com/laws/exhaust-us.htm

 

In California, you'd get a correctable violation and you could either put your stock exhaust back on, get it signed off and pay a $25 court fee... or you could keep your set up the way it is and pay the large fine.

Most likely if an officer pulls you over, they'd find anything and everything to give you a ticket for. I was pulled over for a loud exhaust and got a ticket for no front plate and front tinted windows as well. Had I chose to not correct the violations, my fine would have been almost $800.

 

To be clear, getting it "signed off" would constitute a visual inspection and/or the aforementioned decibel test.

 

it seems like my best bet would be to just pay the big fine and not go through the hassle of removing exhaust/headers
but hopefully it wont come to that

 

dont rev it around authorizes and you should be finee! my GS is nowhere as loud as your setup , but when i see cops i put in in e-shift and shift at like 500rpm

As folks have said, if you get a ticket just take everything off, pay the 25 dollar fee and put it back on. For the exhaust it should be easy but the headers is a different story!

 

If you pay the big fine to keep everything on car. Will they give you ticket again if another police stop you?

 

yes, you will still get another ticket

 

^ Of course. Your car would still be "illegally modified." The only way to not have a chance of getting another ticket would be to correct the violation.

 

lol if you get a speeding ticket, can you get another one if you speed again?