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Old 03-10-2005, 03:58 AM
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OK, so I'm 24 and this is the first "car" i've ever had. My other vehicles have been trucks. I've only had this car for like 4 months, and i just got my second speeding ticket! Never got one in any of the trucks.I know I was speeding but I mean it just feels like this car attracts cops.

Someone told me that if the cop makes a mistake on the ticket that you may be able to fight it. I know i was speeding, but I really can't afford to have my insurance skyrocket. He descibed my car as a "Toyota sedan". Does anyone know if this car could be considered a sedan? I always thought it was a coupe.
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Old 03-10-2005, 04:02 AM
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just pay a layer to get ur ticket fixed, probly be like $100-200 but it will be like if it never happend, works great my parents do it for me all the time
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to most insurance companies and cops its a sedan on record. but physically its a coupe. i dunno i coud be wrong but all my records say sedan even after it was corrected.

TC attract cops? not really
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hire someone to either lower the violation to something else, just pay the fine. Better then your insurance shoot to the moon.
BTW it should be coupe, seden i belive consider as 4 doors?
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No this car doesn't attract cops or anything. if your speeding so much, I would suggest that you get a radar detector because for the price of one, if it saves you from getting 2 tickets your already even. My last vehicle was a truck, and I got my first speeding ticket in that going 70 in a 50 zone. I do way worse in the tC, but my radar detector has seriously helped out a bunch. i suggest you do the driving school or whatever you need to get the ticket off of your record, and then get yourself a good radar detector, either the valentine 1, or the escort passport 8500 x50.
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my last ticket says coupe... sounds like a f*ck up to me....
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i guess i see a call to some sort of lawyer, a radar detector, and some sort of bills in my future...

anyone know of any good lawyers that specialize in this stuff around the valencia/santa clarita area?
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im 19 i live in the suburbs of chicago napervill aurora area if any one knows where that is and im on my 4th ticket sinc i got this car last augest i think it was that is 1 speeding (i was with my dad a month after i got this car and he told "open it up lets see if it has some *****" and sure enough a cop was coming the opposite driection and busted a u turn and pulled me over i was only going 5 over the speed limit i had just hit 60 when i saw her) 2 for my tint (my last car was 20% all around and i never got pulled over in it and i still dont have my lic. i have to go pay the new ticket this friday) and 1 for pealing out but it was more like a little chirp they were all on seprat ocasians i havent had my drivers lic. for more then a month and a half since i got this car but i still love it. and my tickets always say toyota for the make and scion for the model i tell them they got it wrong and they still give it to me like that i wounder if i could act like i dont drive a toyota and get out of paying these damn things but probly not
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You got pulled over for doing 5 over the limit. Damn those cops suck. The cops near me pull us over for tint too, but 5 over is just sad.
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yep they dont seem to like a 19 year old driving a nice looking new car (or maybe its becouse im mexican i love the excues i used to tell teachers that all the time when they would get mad at me and then they would calm down and try not to ____ me off ) oh well they all suck 1 more moving violation and they suspend my lic. till im 21
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Its not the Tc. Cops have quotas. www.ticketassassin.com
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not in ill. my friends mom is a cop well a detective now for auroa and she said they dont have quotas
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Originally Posted by aarontrini85
yep they dont seem to like a 19 year old driving a nice looking new car (or maybe its becouse im mexican i love the excues i used to tell teachers that all the time when they would get mad at me and then they would calm down and try not to ____ me off ) oh well they all suck 1 more moving violation and they suspend my lic. till im 21
I'm 19 too, luckily i havnt been pulled over once in my tC. My friend just got pulled over and got a DUI about a week ago. He got his liscence taken away for a year!
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Originally Posted by aarontrini85
not in ill. my friends mom is a cop well a detective now for auroa and she said they dont have quotas
you should try and convince her to take car of the tickets for you
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it will attract the attention of cops more than SUVs and trucks b/c cops pay more attention to cars that have a "sporty" look.

and a sedan is technically any enclosed car that has two or four doors. So all coupes can be considered sedans.

btw plead NG, and your best bet is to hope the trooper doesnt show. Lawyer might really help as well.
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where you at?
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That's what they'll say because quotas are illegal. But admit there are times when you see more cops out than usual and they will write tickets left and right, and other times they will ignore the most obvious violations. Cops are crooked, fight your ticket.
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it doesnt attract as many cops as my mustang. I got pulled over once just for going 48 in a 45 zone. He just gave me a "warning". its so pathetic what cops do. it ____es me off
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yes the tc attracks cops i have gotten 2 tickets also but if you dont want i to hit your insurance go to traffic school, you could try to fight it but you better have the best excuse in the world, they love to make you pay more, best just go to traffic school, if you have gone before request secondary affender course, its 12 hours but worth it,
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Originally Posted by adamstc
yes the tc attracks cops i have gotten 2 tickets also but if you dont want i to hit your insurance go to traffic school, you could try to fight it but you better have the best excuse in the world, they love to make you pay more, best just go to traffic school, if you have gone before request secondary affender course, its 12 hours but worth it,
I have to disagree that the tc attracts cops. I think that there is something that you are doing that is drawing attention to yourself. There is a smart way to speed, and a not so smart way. Just make sure that your not darting in and out of cars(cause that will surely draw attention to you).
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