fix-it ticket nightmare --- I just need to vent!!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks, everyone, for your sympathetic replies. You made me feel better about my situation, knowing you too could see how crazy it all was!
So apparently the third time is a charm ... I stopped off at a police station on my way to work and got my #$@#('ing ticket signed off! I hope to hell to never get another fix-it ticket in my life!
So apparently the third time is a charm ... I stopped off at a police station on my way to work and got my #$@#('ing ticket signed off! I hope to hell to never get another fix-it ticket in my life!
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... seemed none too pleased with. But thankfully she just gave me a look to kill, she didn't arrest me!
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99 I buy my first A6..with Xenons. I must have been like the first freaking person in the bay area with xenons because I am getting stopped by the PoPo's for "blue lights on the front on a vehicle"..A big no-no.
One night after a very late dinner at Rose Pistola in the City, a SFPD stops me and issues a fixit ticket for the headlight. He boasted he had given hundreds of ticket to the ricers who had illegal lighting. I argued that this was a legal, DOT approved factory option. He wouldn't listen.
The next morning I show up at 650 Bryant to start the process and get to the window, the woman says "You're not in the system, go home and wait for a letter." I do. I get a warrant in a couple of months.
To cut the story short, and it goes on for some time. I get my dealer involved, Audi of America is sending me legal papers of the DOT papers about the xenon lights with scientific charts, etc. Their people are calling me. I get stopped by the Berkeley Police and three squad cars surround me..I have a warrant for my arrest in the system.
I eventually have to go to trial after a couple of times in court trying to resolve it without "fixing" it which the police are saying requires a removal of the xenon bulbs and replacement of a more yellow bulb. I won and still carry all my paper work with me in the car.
I feel all xenon owners in the bay area owe me a debt for going to bat for them..
One night after a very late dinner at Rose Pistola in the City, a SFPD stops me and issues a fixit ticket for the headlight. He boasted he had given hundreds of ticket to the ricers who had illegal lighting. I argued that this was a legal, DOT approved factory option. He wouldn't listen.
The next morning I show up at 650 Bryant to start the process and get to the window, the woman says "You're not in the system, go home and wait for a letter." I do. I get a warrant in a couple of months.
To cut the story short, and it goes on for some time. I get my dealer involved, Audi of America is sending me legal papers of the DOT papers about the xenon lights with scientific charts, etc. Their people are calling me. I get stopped by the Berkeley Police and three squad cars surround me..I have a warrant for my arrest in the system.
I eventually have to go to trial after a couple of times in court trying to resolve it without "fixing" it which the police are saying requires a removal of the xenon bulbs and replacement of a more yellow bulb. I won and still carry all my paper work with me in the car.
I feel all xenon owners in the bay area owe me a debt for going to bat for them..
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