Seeking Advice - Manitoba Roadside Inspection Failed.

[Rush]

Alright so i got pulled over last night on sunday night cruising (Winnipeg, MB) while i was driving 50 in a 50 zone and only 5 mins away from my house. A cop who hates ppl with RHD cars comes, pulls out a clipboard, and proceeds to do a roadside vehicle inspection. It failed in a few places. I now gotta go get it inspected at MPI insurance which is a legit inspection station that harshly goes over every detail. But im only worried about one.

Tint 8%- that i can peel off
straight muffler - put a baffled muffler on
Non dot head lights - stick my accord lights back in
Suspension too low - raise my coilovers
Non DOT seat belts - ????????????????????

Seat belts is the only thing i'm currently worried about. I got till Nov 1st to voluntarily bring my car into an MPI inspection station to get it inspected and passed.
If i don't do this MPI will flag my VIN number so it can not be registered again.

Now i'm weighing my options and am seeking some advice. What should I do? If i need new seatbelts installed im sure thats BIG $$$ to do. Should i....

a) Part out a perfectly good running car which has some good mods
b) Sell it to another province (Are they able to register it there if VIN is flagged in MB?)
c) Order some VIN plates from Japan and sell it here as a "freshly imported car".
d) cough up BIG $$$ to fix all the compliance work. Then sell it


What do you think guys?

[Nismo_line]

hey man i can help you install the seat belts and if you want i can ask my dad if we can do anything else in his shop
i say keep it

[Snake556]

Keep the car, man. Don't let cops push you around. I don't think you'd have much of an issue with seatbelts, since they came with the vehicle, and have not been modified. I'm not 100% sure how MB is, so I'm not sure if that should really be any issue. Go with foxracingcanada004 though!

[Nismo_line]

well here in mb the cops are saying that the seat belts arnt up to code because that cant hold north Americans weight

[Snake556]

...Wow. Manitoba's becoming really bad, eh?

[Nismo_line]

oh ya man i was scared to drive my car on sundays even during the day because of the mobile inspection units that check every inch of your car its CRAZY

[Snake556]

:| Holy Nazi inspectors... Thank god the MTO isn't THAT bad...

[Nismo_line]

the shitty thing is that me and Rush were cruising like 20 mins before that then i went my way he went his and this happened on a non busy road and bad things happened more then what he posted (dont wanna go into details) and this was just some cop that did the inspection which he had no right to because he had no reason to even pull him over

[Rblove26]

could you not just fight this and then complain about the officer who pulled you over while you weren't doing illegal. wouldnt that fall under some sort of harashment on the officers part? there is no ban yet for RHD and (i could be wrong) but im pretty sure there is no such thing as suspension being "too low", how can that be any cause for a road check? ive seen civics that can barely make it over a speed bump and never heard of anything like that, id be fighting it for sure

[Nismo_line]

they give tickets for the dumbest things they do this so called push test they try to push your car down and if the suspension doesnt move 2 inches then its illegal

[Rush]

Yeah hes right. The cop did the "put his weight on the car thing" to see if it would move down and it hardly did. Btw this was the biggest d*ck of a cop too. He flat out yelled at me that he hates Mother F*ckers like me who drive RHD cars. I wasn't speeding or anything. He just pulled me over when he saw i had a RHD car. This cop said he will inspect my car and was asking me to turn the steering wheel left and right so he can bend down and check the clearance... and after he got up i straightened out my wheel to normal. And he flipped out saying "DID I F*CKING TELL YOU TO MOVE THE WHEEL?!". He yanked me outta the car. Screamed at me more and asked if i thought i was smart and yelled that im just a f*cking prick asshole. He took me behind his cop car (out of the dash cam's view) and yelled at me more while i was keeping quite and looking down. He punched me in the balls, threw a punch at my head, and then shoved me on the ground and slammed a knee on my back while he cuffed me. Threw me in the back of his cop car while he proceeded with the inspection. I'm a responsible 20 year old, who doesn't wear any gangster clothes, no tattoos or anything and all my responses were "yes/no officer or yes/no sir". Police brutality at its finest... With no witnesses, no cars on the road and with a dumbass young rookie cop partner who will lie for him.

This is one of the reasons i want to get rid of the car... so i won't have to deal with this bullsh*t. And no body say to file a complaint because since i most likely will, i highly doubt it will be addressed.

[Snake556]

Wow... Are you serious? Dude, stick a video cam in your car. If you get pulled over again, hit record. If you can aim it back towards you or towards the window, then that's perfect. Videographic evidence is hard to dispute, and you might be able to get this asshole cop pulled off the force. That's not what policing should be. He clearly has a bias against RHD drivers for whatever reason. And has some serious anger management issues. Police are there to serve and protect, and it's officers like this one that give cops a bad name.

[cortexx]

I would have called the cops while he was there and told them what was going down , get another officer on the scene.

Wow... Are you serious? Dude, stick a video cam in your car. If you get pulled over again, hit record. If you can aim it back towards you or towards the window, then that's perfect. Videographic evidence is hard to dispute, and you might be able to get this asshole cop pulled off the force. That's not what policing should be. He clearly has a bias against RHD drivers for whatever reason. And has some serious anger management issues. Police are there to serve and protect, and it's officers like this one that give cops a bad name.

[DarkCaporaL]

Even if your complaint wont go anywhere because you have no witnesses, do still file it. If the cop is THAT brutal then he will do it to other people, the complaints will stack up, and they will start an investigation. It's people keeping quiet that keeps bad cops like this on the road. He handcuffed you!? Wtf dude...

I know nothing about Manitoba's laws, but make sure you check everything, mainly in that he had the right to inspect your vehicle in the first place, or even touch it. For us here in Quebec a cop cannot order an inspection unless it's a danger to the road or the stability of it is hindered (aka either your car is scrapping the ground or your wheels are hitting the wheel wells). They also do not have the right to even touch your car, yet alone tell you to do stuff (moving your wheels for example). They can ask put you can politely refuse (not saying it is necessarily a good thing to refuse though).

But come on, you dont slam a dude on the ground and cuff him because you're doing a roadside inspection, that guy deserves to be fired.

[ndawg]

that's what you get for going out on Sunday night... you should know better :s