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Originally Posted by hagarone
It states that a report has been lodged by member of the Victoria police indicating that the vehicle was considered to be either excessively noisy or to have had faulty exhaust system.
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When this happened to me i was so outraged because i knew my car wasn't excessively loud (i was under by 4dB). By the member of Victoria police using their hearing and opinion to determine that the car is excessively loud, allows for too much bias.
Secondly there is no system of appeals and the only way out is too waste time running around doing a test then you are out of pocket 40 bucks for no good reason, and in all that time your car was never over the limit. To me it's just a revenue raising tactic.
Thirdly i see a conflict of interest where the testing is conducted at exhaust shops who try to push the car over the limit so that they can charge you for installing a new exhaust to put the car back under the limit. Testing should be independently done by the EPA and a fee should only be payed if the car is over the limit.