Well, I went and did it... Got my first ticket... Bummer!!! Not that it isn't well overdue and deserved. I was on a right hand sweaping turn and I just goosed the throttle and then I saw the motorcycle cop with his handy little radar gun. He got me for 62 in a 45. If he had waited a second longer he would have had me doing more than that. The fine is $139.00.

 

That sucks!

I got pulled over yesterday because of no front plate but did not get a ticket.

-marc

 

Way to go, another XF first!!!! Sounds like this needs to go in your sig block!!! :wink: :wink: :wink:

 

Hardly a first......

I got my ticket (71, in a 55) last November....

I am about to really pay for it in September according to my insurance agent.......

:-(

 

A friend of mine told me that, in Va. at least, if you over pay like say $5.00 they will send you a check for the overpayment. If you don't cash the check they don't closeout the ticket and it doesn't get reported. I'm going to give that a shot and see what happens. I don't mind paying the fine but it really ticks me off that the insurance company will raise my rates for the next 3 years.

 

I would bet that in Ohio, they would just send you a "thank you for being so stupid to send us too much money" note, cash the check, and put the points on your record......

On second thought, they would probably add a few points for stupidity!!!!

;-)

 

it's really hard to stay under 15 mph over the speed limit with this car.... I use to have a buddy that had a lawler on retainer just for tickets.... there was only one he did not get away with...

-marc

 

In California, you can go to traffic school to "get rid of a ticket". You still have to pay the fine, pay for the school but your insurance doesn't go up. You can do this once every three years. If you get another ticket within the three years then you are out of luck.

 

same here but only if you are going less than 15mph over the speed limit..

-marc

 

My first.... I'm sure other people have already had pleanty of tickets in Crossfires.

 

Move to Florida, the land of sunshine and no front plates. :lol:

 

Nope, way too much rain and bugs.... :wink: :wink: :wink:

 

Help :!: The Police over here are trailing me. I have been followed on four occasions now, but not actually been pulled over. I'm hoping they are just admiring the car, and not trying to be the first cop to issue a ticket to a XF. Are our speedos accurate :?:

 

send it to a lawyer...i pay 69.00 bucks and i'm scott free. No points no school, insurance does not go up!

I may pay court fees sometimes.

 

Rain? We are usually begging for it, and bugs - the gators eat them, the tough gators anyway :lol: Don't you Southwest dwellers shake the scorpions and Black Widows out of your shoes before putting them on :wink:

 

Yep!!! We have them all... coyotes, scorpions, rattle snakes and the infamous gila monsters freely roam our neighborhoods. Not to mention the lack of trees for shade or other vegetation that doesn't have 3 inch long thorns sticking out. Small children and pets are not allowed to be left alone outdoors because of the extreme dangers we face down here. Oh, I forget to mention the 115�� heat we have from April through November. VegasCrossfire has it just a little better... temps only hit 110��. Why do you think we want to do all the hook-ups to the left coast? :wink: :wink: :wink:

 

If this is your first ticket in quite a while, you might try what I did:

A couple of years ago I was nailed by a Virginia State Trooper for doing 70 in a 55 on a 2-lane road in the middle of nowhere at 9:00 am Sunday morning. Since I was driving a yellow Viper GTS with black stripes and was the only car on the road, I was screwed. Since this was my first ticket in 18 years of driving, I made a court appearance. I was prepared to plead no contest and to offer to attend driving school, in hopes the judge would dismiss the charge. This was exactly what happened -- except that after I plead no contest, the judge asked me if I'd be willing to attend driving school before I could even offer. He even offered to dismiss the BS "no front plate" ticket the trooper had also laid on me. I attended the one-day school -- cost about $75 -- and the charges were dismissed. No points, nothing on the driving record. No way for the insurance company to find out, since the charges are dismissed. I know for a fact this has worked for others. I have a friend who has no qualms about lying under oath, so he gets a phony "miscalibrated speedometer" repair slip, tells a BS story, etc -- but I don't recommend that approach. Since you were less than 20 mph over the limit (20 over in Va is reckless driving), if you've got a clean driving record and were polite to the police officer, the driving school approach should work for you. You will have to pay court costs. Yeah, it's easier to just pay the fine, but the next time the driving school tactic may not work, as you've got a speeding ticket on your record.

I'd forget about the "overpayment" tactic. That's a common old wives' tale, and I'd really be surprised if it works. Every time I read about that, it's never someone saying it worked for them, rather it's "I heard that..." If you decide to go ahead and pay the fine, one ticket should not affect your insurance rates. Of course, all bets are off if you've got other recent tickets on your driving record.

 

I have been lucky so far and managed to receive only a warning ticket. I think I'll keep it. All the details of the car are listed and then under violations it says, "SPEED".

 

There you go, poster boy for AZ Tourism! :lol: :lol: :lol:

You know AZ, you really shouldn't try so hard to get people to move there :!: :P :!: :P :!:

 

I'll second this recommendation Wes. Show the judge what an upstanding citizen driver you've been all these years. You have a much better chance of the ticket being dismissed this way than the urban legend way.