Hi, Guest
02-01-2013, 12:30 AM
(01-31-2013, 11:27 PM)girard.k Wrote: This is directly from the Highway and Traffic Act of Ontario:
"Noise, smoke, bells and horns
Muffler
75. (1) Every motor vehicle or motor assisted bicycle shall be equipped with a muffler in good working order and in constant operation to prevent excessive or unusual noise and excessive smoke, and no person shall use a muffler cut-out, straight exhaust, gutted muffler, hollywood muffler, by-pass or similar device upon a motor vehicle or motor assisted bicycle. R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, s. 75 (1)."
So if my car doesn't have a muffler and he did look under the car, I am in fact in violation of that section.
I'm going to do what dblast did and install a resonator. The officer could've given me a warning considering I've never been pulled over for it in the 5 years I've been driving it this way.
Unless he put your car on a hoist or crawled fully underneath it, there is no way he could swear you didn't have a proper exhaust visually - add the resonator for sure, but you should fight the ticket IMHO.
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