Ataru
04-10-2004, 11:29 PM
Heading home to Claremore, came to the speed limit drop from 60 to 50 in Verdigris. I dropped to 50 and shortly after the hwy 266 overpass I see an OHP in my rear view mirror turn on his lights. I'm in the right lane and he is in the left lane. I don't think much of it since the Jeep in front of him was passing me and *I* was going 50. I thought the Jeep would get stopped for speeding.
Then the OHP pulls in behind me. [censored] I thought......why am *I* getting stopped. So I turn on my blinker and pull over. Turn on my interior light, roll down my window, take the keys out and put them on the instrument cluster.
Officer comes to my window asks for my information and says he stopped me for having my fog lights on! He says that I need to treat them the same as high beams.
I tell him that I need to reach into my glove box to get my insurance just to let him know of my actions. You know, don't want to make him think I might try something.....you can't be too careful. I get my insurance card out. DOUBLE [censored]! It expired February 28th! I KNEW I was going to get a ticket for that one!
I give him my license and insurance card. He asks if I still live at the Broken Arrow address. I said no I haven't lived there for about 3 years. He acts surprised. "You are supposed to correct your license within 10 days of moving". I told him I wasn't aware of that but that I figured that wasn't much of an excuse........
He takes my information and asks me to follow him to his car. In the car he runs my info, and everything comes back clear. He mentions something about it being good that my license isn't suspended because a notice would have been sent to my old address and I would have never received it since the address wasn't correct.
I'm guessing the officer pulled me over because he saw a fancy sport compact with a fog light violation and thought he would find some teenage punk driving it and there would be other violations with the car. But then he comes to the car and sees a guy that is almost 30 (holy $&@#!). The officer was really a nice guy and I treated him with respect. I even thanked him and shook his hand when he was finished! I think that's why he just gave me a warning for the fog lights and out of date address on the license. I did get a ticket for the insurance card, but I can go in Monday morning with my up to date insurance card and get it dismissed.
The sad thing is......my wife is my insurance agent and last night she asked if I had up to date cards in my car.......and I told her I did! :mad: Oh well....live and learn.
I knew a law had passed recently about the fog lights stating something along the lines that it had to be foggy for them to be used. I guess I ignored it since I like that little bit of extra light even though it is only up close to the car. But the officer told me that I have to follow similar rules as high beams. Must not be within 300 feet of another vehicle even with a median, unless the median is more than 300 feet wide. Conflicting information causes confusion.......
I guess the safest thing now is to NEVER use the damn fog lights. Why the hell are manufacturers putting them on just about EVERY car out there when you can't use them legally except when it is foggy......maybe 3 or 4 times a YEAR? Crazy I tell you....
That was the first time that I have been stopped in almost 8 years! And only the second time EVER! I'm going to pull the fuse on those fog lights so this doesn't happen again.
Since I am not going to use the fog lights, do you think it would be worth it to run some ducting from the driver's side fog light hole up to the air box to act kind of like a CAI? I don't want to buy a CAI where the filter is down low in the car. Don't want to run the risk of ingesting water as there are some MAJOR water puddles on the street leading to my house whenever it rains. Would piping the air from down there to the stock filter have a similar effect?
I figure that if I can't use them, I might as well take them out, right?
Then the OHP pulls in behind me. [censored] I thought......why am *I* getting stopped. So I turn on my blinker and pull over. Turn on my interior light, roll down my window, take the keys out and put them on the instrument cluster.
Officer comes to my window asks for my information and says he stopped me for having my fog lights on! He says that I need to treat them the same as high beams.
I tell him that I need to reach into my glove box to get my insurance just to let him know of my actions. You know, don't want to make him think I might try something.....you can't be too careful. I get my insurance card out. DOUBLE [censored]! It expired February 28th! I KNEW I was going to get a ticket for that one!
I give him my license and insurance card. He asks if I still live at the Broken Arrow address. I said no I haven't lived there for about 3 years. He acts surprised. "You are supposed to correct your license within 10 days of moving". I told him I wasn't aware of that but that I figured that wasn't much of an excuse........
He takes my information and asks me to follow him to his car. In the car he runs my info, and everything comes back clear. He mentions something about it being good that my license isn't suspended because a notice would have been sent to my old address and I would have never received it since the address wasn't correct.
I'm guessing the officer pulled me over because he saw a fancy sport compact with a fog light violation and thought he would find some teenage punk driving it and there would be other violations with the car. But then he comes to the car and sees a guy that is almost 30 (holy $&@#!). The officer was really a nice guy and I treated him with respect. I even thanked him and shook his hand when he was finished! I think that's why he just gave me a warning for the fog lights and out of date address on the license. I did get a ticket for the insurance card, but I can go in Monday morning with my up to date insurance card and get it dismissed.
The sad thing is......my wife is my insurance agent and last night she asked if I had up to date cards in my car.......and I told her I did! :mad: Oh well....live and learn.
I knew a law had passed recently about the fog lights stating something along the lines that it had to be foggy for them to be used. I guess I ignored it since I like that little bit of extra light even though it is only up close to the car. But the officer told me that I have to follow similar rules as high beams. Must not be within 300 feet of another vehicle even with a median, unless the median is more than 300 feet wide. Conflicting information causes confusion.......
I guess the safest thing now is to NEVER use the damn fog lights. Why the hell are manufacturers putting them on just about EVERY car out there when you can't use them legally except when it is foggy......maybe 3 or 4 times a YEAR? Crazy I tell you....
That was the first time that I have been stopped in almost 8 years! And only the second time EVER! I'm going to pull the fuse on those fog lights so this doesn't happen again.
Since I am not going to use the fog lights, do you think it would be worth it to run some ducting from the driver's side fog light hole up to the air box to act kind of like a CAI? I don't want to buy a CAI where the filter is down low in the car. Don't want to run the risk of ingesting water as there are some MAJOR water puddles on the street leading to my house whenever it rains. Would piping the air from down there to the stock filter have a similar effect?
I figure that if I can't use them, I might as well take them out, right?