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You're kidding right.

You're as thick as two short planks if you took or gave that advice.

um in vic engenieers certificates are only technically valid for 30days from date of issue, allowing you to get a roadworthy and then get the details changed with vic roads. as long as its on the cert, then you sort of covered but you can still get defected and sent for a roadworthy or even epa emmissions testing. so its not a 100% cover but it does mean that for what you did it was signed off as legit and makes it hard for vic roads not to allow it if its reinspected.

thats what was explained to me.

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Quoting this as the irony is hilarious.

there are some cool dudes on here...

if the cop wants to defect you he will simple as that, if he can't defect whats been mod plated he will find something else especially if your acting like a hero

and lol at chris's comment

Thats right, when I was younger I got a defect notice for worn tyres, I took the car over the pits with the same tyres on and passed. I think the cop had a bad day or I annoyed him somehow.

Cops here are much the same. I've spoken at length with a local cert engineer, and he has has untold hassles from the police. I think they don't like him cos he's an enabler. He enables people to drive cars that they hate. Most of them don't know sh1t from clay about cars. I daily a rough as guts A31 cefiro. ONe day I got stopped at a checkpoint, and the cop asked me to open the bonnet. He's pawing over it looking for an enternal watsegate with screamer. (They trained up a bunch of cops to what they should look for) BUT, it's a single cam dog. The bloody thing isn't even turbo!

I was recently got a yellow sticker on my somewhat modified patrol. At last count I have 5 additional compliance plates for various mods.

There is nothing wrong with my car, but they were on a sting, putting stickers on anything and everything.

All they could find was that they "thought" my tyres stuck out of my guards (they didnt)
and that I had a leaky exhaust. I dont know how they could pick it over the engine noise!!

And they only gave me 7 days, and since I work in remote WA, more that 7 days at a time, it cost me two inspections.

Lesson here. If they want to sticker you, they will, particulary if you are bieng a tool.

in saying that, I have got away with more than i have been busted for by simply playing to their egos, and using some simple body language, posturing and NLP techniques.

Yes Sir, No sir, three bags full sir, I wont do it again Sir. Meet them at the tail gate, with a smile and greet them first.

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This exact thing happened to me! Pulled over and the fella couldn't get enough of the exhaust manifold, looking at it from every angle and asking me to rev the engine while he did. Anybody who actually knew a thing about cars could tell immediately there was no turbo. Ended up for defecting me on something else instead.
It makes you wonder, if they can't recognise if its turbo or not, how can they police modifications.

anyone can do a cops job just spend 9 months in a remote area with out going crazy, and when you become one your sent 500km away from your family n friends. So i can see why they love defecting ppl cause no one knows them there and there #OOPS#y all the time working 12 hour shifts in a area they never heard of before...

next time they pull you over have syimpathy for those guys... untill they fine u.;)