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Trucks are the worst offenders, many heavy duty trucks may call for a 245/75 16 120R. In order to look more "badass" truck owners will put 18, 20, or 22 inch wheels and, let's say tires with specs 305/40 22 114V on their trucks with no regards to the recommended load or speed rating. And there really aren't any laws in the US stating that they can't do that. The company I work for is owned by a parent company in France and my colleagues there have told me that it is much more strict and the wheels / tire specs that are on the door card are the only wheels / tires that are allowed on the vehicle, and using anything different needs government inspection and approval as well as in Italy. Another example is my FR-S, the door card says that the OE tire is a 215/45 17 87W, so in Europe that is pretty much the only tire you can use. In the US, you can buy nearly any size tire for the car as long as it can fit and places like Tirerack will happily sell you a 225/45 17 91V to put on the OE wheels. I run 225s for autocross / track day events and there's nothing stopping me from running those tires on the street. Also, the door cards for many European brands such as Mercedes or BMW may only show the tire on the car and not the other possible tire options like it does in Europe. I know some BMW door cards may have 4 or 5 different wheel and tire specs with several recommended tire pressure specs for highway travel or carrying loads. In the US, there's none of that extra information, for example my E90 330i only had specs for the original wheels and tires and did not include the load or speed rating. Our laws regarding vehicle modifications and especially wheel and tires are much less strict, or just don't exist. Hope that gives you some more information |
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I've heard that Switzerland is even worse.
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Here on the Southern Gulf Coast the only thing that law enforcement cares about is that you have functional headlights and turn signals... and even then you would have to do something stupid for them to pull you over for that. There is no emissions testing, so tuners are free to run whatever mods they please. Gas is also amongst the cheapest in the U.S. (with proper 93 octane too... not the watered down 91 octane that some other states have) and sales tax on cars is low (usually only about 2-3%).
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You can also be immediately referred to a smog station by a mobile exhaust sensing unit that are placed on freeway on ramps. I saw one of those one time and I shut off the engine and cruised through the beams, then turned engine back on. http://www.smogtips.com/Images/remote_sensing_main.jpg |
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Santa Ana security officers (contracted by Santa Ana) that patrol the parking spaces for the city were giving vehicles with FBI placards and even police cruisers from other cities tickets. Of course the FBI cars have confidential plates so only the agency address is listed and the tickets don't get paid. I remember I got 3 tickets 3 days in a row for no front license plate even thought I had one. They would also give expired meter tickets to handicap people. |
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Yeah, Italian Ticino in Switzerland has a special division of road police, Camorino Inspection Centre for Vehicles.
Between Italy and Switzerland there is an agreement about vehicles therefore if you modify you car, Italy plated, and drive to Switzerland you might be pulled and ticket for car mods not certified. Tickets are very high and you might go under judgement about some violations such as sound level of exhaust, emissions modification and so on. Each time you get pulled about these violations you need to pay over Euros 4/5.000 and you go under judgement (other expenses). Camorino's police get a kind of "Manual" of engine bay and exhaust for several vehicles and sometimes they check if the your one is stock or not. In Switzerland it's illegal any Navy with POI for cams and tele-laser too. Some of us use to drive to France (from Turin + 120 miles) to reach Nurburgring in Germany to avoid any issue with Switz. For us the Paradise in Europe is Germany. Some Autobahn have many kms of free drive with no speed limits, it's usually to see Zonda and Lambo, GT3RS drive over 300 KMs/h.
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