thats what pisses me off about exhausts and what not is a car cant be past a certan amont of dbs but some fu#&head on a harly can go past and bust your ear drums?

errr i dunno bout you but my insurance knows everything about my car and they are ok about it.. soo idk what u been smoking..everythin done to the car is legal, Extractors only is not legal for p platers but apparently you can get a excemption i was just told.. but yeh insuranc knows all about it..

haha you're trying to hide modifications but you told your insurance company all about them. yeah everythings legal but not on your licence and you can be sure the insurance company won't cover you for a car that you aren't allowed to drive. claiming you didn't know about the rules is no defence either.

keep giving them their premiums though. that'll keep them happy given they probably already know they won't have to pay you.

meh im over it now, whateva the f happens, happens. oh and xr6 p plate drivers are going to be illegal soon just to give a heads up to people i can take the xtractors off and its legal for me to drive it or i can just keep it the same and try figure a way around it haha..

The only exemption is if that modified car is the only car in the household and you can't get any stock servicable parts for it. Chucking an exhaust on your car and for the hell of it is in no way a reasonable grounds for an exemption.
As for insurance companies. Its merely their job to exercise their right of a law that most of them don't understand. That is why they will ensure you but if anything happens, they'll bend you over and say that your insurance is void because they "just found out" that you weren't allowed to have said mods. If anything they might try to swap you for motkrsport insurance (which covere's theft from your trailer or garage only).

Either way, your f**k as your policy aint worth the paper its printed on.

Just buy a excel, then you dont have to worry about p plate restrictions

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm,another piece of paper in the crapper on the nail or on the mags to read.

Insurance knowing about the mods for a P plate driver doesnt make a lick of difference.
A couple of years ago Just Cars got found out on what they were doing.
They were taking on insurance policies with P platers in turbos , V8's etc and charging a fortune to do it.
The kids thought they did the right thing and were covered as they were honest and up front with the insurance company and paid the rip off premiums.
Until it was time to claim..............
Just Cars then would not pay out in the case of an at fault accident because the P plater was not LEGALLY driving the car. They compared it to someone driving p****d. Everything was ok except the driver was not operating the car legally.
A couple of people attempted to take it to court and got nowhere as Just Car stated that they were happy to pay up if the car was stolen etc providing theowner was not illegally using it at the time.
Insurance comapnies LOVE loopholes!

It doesn't matter whether the modifications are covered on the car by your insurance, if you have to claim and you as a P plater are driving a car with modifications they can get out of covering you. Whether something is legal and listed doesn't affect whether you are illegally driving a modified car.

Not smoking anything, I'm in my 3rd year of law though and having done Insurance law (as well as dealth with insurance companies when I have had to claim) know how much of a C*** they are.

Just Cars is just about the worst of the lot for getting out of paying. They pay a s**t out to support their legal team but as a result save heaps on what they would otherwise be paying out.

Just hide it all. A cam would be perfect along with an exhaust/extractors/larger air intake.

They don't catch you and never will unless you're the one in a million, they say they will but this country is ran entirely by the "saying one thing and doing another concept". I'd recommend not having your exhaust too loud however I drove with p plates up, and would've stood out more than any driver as in Narre Warren I seem to be the only capable driver of doing the speed limit. I didn't have an exhaust for 2 weeks and used the car for work on the rd 4hrs a night, if you think a sports exhaust is loud, you'll be shocked at how loud it is without one, like an airport haha.

If you want to figure out the probability of being prosecuted for breaking these power laws then here's the forumla:

Interpret Victoria Polices threats to P platers as literal, then divide by a trillionth.

Sheep will always say you'll get caught, but that's because they're simply sheep.

Fact is more offenders don't get caught than do. So if you want to be as black and white as the Victorian Police force then there can only be one answer, and seeing as the majority don't get caught then you won't get caught. Anyway enough of Police stupidity, I've never heard of anyone being done for power mods, and have heaps of mates on 8's and turbo's who have been pulled over and caught out only to have the cops turn a blind eye.

There's probably more plane crashes than P platers who get caught AND THEN prosecuted for exceeding new age P plater power restrictions. Worst case scenario, they catch you and suspect the car has exceeded the power limit. They can't prosecute you until they have proof, they'll order you to take it to a dyno, so if they do that just remove the camshaft, get it dyno'd then put it back in. There's a million ways to boycott this stupid, superficially implemented law. They can't stop you from swapping parts between the period they pull you over to the period they've ordered you to have the dyno, if you don't want to get caught, you won't get caught.

No point following laws that are corrupt and ignorant, you shouldn't have to suffer due to the stupidity of others.

Had an exhaust system on my P's, insurance were aware, made a claim and was paid out with no issues whatsoever.

Of course. If they know, its ok. It's not their job to enforce state laws, just insure your vehicle based on the information provided.

Skidder's point was directed at the OP. no mods = no mods.

As for you, dont confuse duty of disclosure to your insurance company with state laws for provisional license restrictions.

Is that the way it actually is?

I'd assume that the insurance company would be liable as it's their responsibility, not the drivers.

You pay them a premium after informing them of your cars modifications, if they accept payment, then they've accepted to insure you with said modifications.

I'm confused. I was disagreeing with his statement that if they're aware of the mods they still will find a way to wriggle out of it. Yet I read on and find it is true.

If you call up to insure a car, inform them of mods, inform them you're a P plater, inform them you will be driving said car and that you want to be insured to drive it, then they're accepting to insure you under those conditions, it's legally binding.

How can they escape that? It's disgusting, what loop hole could they possibly exploit? Regardless of the law, they've accepted to insure you under those conditions.