no this isnt a question about what exhaust i should get

just recently my bro got a fix-it ticket for having what the police said was a "modifed exhaust". now im second guessing whether or not i should change the exhaust on my car. i did some reacher and on some forums some said that its not illegal as long as it had a certain decibal level (loundess); but the cop never said anything about the decibal level of his exhaust, just the fact that it was modified?

so whats the deal?

 

oh yeah, i live in california

 

You can definitely get a ticket for your exhaust being too loud. It's pretty much up to the cop and what he thinks is "too loud"

Ive never heard anything about getting a ticket just because the exhaust is not stock. Then again, you live in Cali and their rules are lame as fuck. I live in FL where dont have Smog and all that other bullshit.

 

i'm in cali as well, first of all. what kind of exhuast do you have?

 

iv never heard of someone getting a ticket for having a non-stock exhaust...in cali...and for all of the car meets i go 2 with all the cops swarming the place, no one got pulled over for them. i think wat he meant to say was it was to loud...

 

Where have you been living? I know tons of people this has happened to. There used to be a loophole in the state vehicle code stating that any exhaust that was modified from stock was not legal. This was changed by the state a few years ago, making exhausts that were over a 95 decibel level from a certain distance from the exhaust tip to be illegal. However, if the cop thinks your exhaust is too loud, he can ticket you for it still, but you can get it decibel tested and then fight it in court...or put on a stock exhaust, get it signed off, and put the other one back on.

 

in a cave lol but c im only 16 so that law got chaged while i was so young that i didnt know how to change oil h:

 

I seriously think he just meant it was too loud, unless they still have this law Dubac is talking about.

 

well my bro had an apexi N~ something... all i know is that when he also put the silencer on and took it to a CHP office, they said he had to replace it with a stock one...

sounds like bs since i see a bunch of other carswith even louder exhausts. kinda lame...

 

Like I said before, you have two options:

1. Get it decibel tested somewhere, and if it's under 95dB, go to court and fight it.

2. Replace it with a stock exhaust, get the ticket signed off, then put the aftermarket exhaust on again.