..the other day, "Your Guide to Legal Mods" Ontario edition. What's legal, not legal, how to avoid tickets and trial strategies. There's also a little info on the dreaded insurance. Small soft cover book, interesting info, some of it is pretty basic and common sense, some surprises. Might be of help to someone here, but it's $20!.
Why not give us a synopsis of the more interesting stuff or stuff we probably don't know...
Share the knowledge.
They should be GIVING that book out for free, not selling it.
-Chris-
-Sweetness-
-Turbocharged-
Slowly but surely may some day win this race...
I'm still wondering who the author/publisher is
The author is Mathew John, apparently a builder and a cop. They have a website, legalmods.com, but it's down for maintenance. The book is published by Legal Mods Publishing, ISBN 0-9737430-0-X. The only place I've seen it is at Performance Improvements.
One interesting thing is the insurance rate scale and the chart at the back to determine your car' s rating based on modifications. For example, things like cross drilled rotors give a +2, alarm +20, lowering springs -10, nitrous oxide -250. From there you add + and - mods, 0 being stock +50 extremely low risk, -300 extremely high risk.
See if the library has a copy, at $20 for 171 pages, you decide if it's worth it.
sounds very very useful, although, i cant help but wonder if this is just one man's opinion and his general knowledge... or if this is set in stone legal..
i notice you mentioned a section on fighting tickets.. meaning these arent the views held by every cop. just what this guy thinks
and where is this insurance info from? cause they all deny you once you have lowering springs... but if i have an alarm and different rotors, the math says the lowering springs are cancelled out...
just curious if this is the bible of moding....
its a good find tho... thanks for the info
***Thanks again to stargrrrl***
Yeah... what you just said about the insurance sounds like BS to me. Does it give any source info?
The modifications info, as far as the law is concerned, look to be legit, but the insurance chart turns out to be a proposed guide for insurance companies dealing with modified cars. I went back looking for references or a bilbiography, found the explanation of the insurance guide in the intro.
Ah. Nice. So it's written by an idiot then?
i feel a bit smarter for figuring it out
***Thanks again to stargrrrl***
i live in barrie and i went by the local performance improvements and i was told they don't carry the book where can i find it ? this book sounds interesting...
Thanx.
I found it at Performance Improvements on Kennedy in Scarborough.
well im sure the geniouses at PI in barrie could get it if they tried or got off their chairs for once
Phil Thacker
JCO North President
lmao ya thats what i figured but those guys really don't like me thought they hate my cav lmao oh well...
thanks anyway guys
