Hey guys I just want to personally chime in on my part.
I'm the son of the OP, and I introduced him to these message boards from M3forum.net and showed him this other world where he can appreciate his car its great.
First things off, I did not receive a wreckless driving ticket, my father confuses his vocab alot, especially now.
Cliffnotes with my ticket situation:
I was traveling down a stretch of road that is 4 lanes wide, and the
speed limit was 30. I put cruise control on 45, and was in the middle lane, at 10 oclock on a Sunday night.
Moreover, as i went into the sidestreets, there was a slab of ice on a turn, and going 20 mph my rear slightly drifted out but i was 100% ready for it, as a gentle tiny slide, and with DSC it was no big deal, and then i drove down the rest of my block, and a fellow friend waves both her arms at me while i traveled another 50 feet to our driveway.
As i step out of my car, a police officer pulls in behind me and starts making false accussations.
He claims I was doing
60MPH++++, completely drifted through that turn, and almost ran over a random lady in the street.
I made him aware of the situation that my dad installed a GPS monitoring system on my car which monitors my Speed, Location, and Time frames, and he quickly got quite. Then he was like "Oh 17 year old with a bimmer huh", turns around and goes, "oh family of bimmers i see."
(we had the m3, 325, and 328xi wagon.)
He comes back claiming he
"cut me a break" , and gave me a
50 in a 30.., unsafe turn, and speed imprudent for almost running someone over.
I have a witness statement for the speed imprudent situation, and she completely defended my case that I was simply driving down the block, pictures of the corner, and a printed statement of my speed that whole night.
I have court soon, and either I will settle on plea bargaining or go into trail, but it all depends because that officer and the judge might not take me seriously, being that im 17.
Honestly, all those charges weren't legitimate, and hopefully I can beat them because I was the only car on the road not doing anything stupid. He just needed to fill up his quota probably.
I drove my father's M3 24/7, and It would be amazing if i could find some setup to choke the ECU @ 300 hp or any type of different figure to limit its power to give my dad a peace of mind. The ECU has a setup of 400, but its not any different from 500, you can simply change it anyway.
I already managed to override that davis software, and i also know how to override his current GPS system,
http://alltrackusa.com/ , is an easy override as well, all you need to do is pull a few fuses and its over.
I'm not going to bother doing it b/c there's no point anyway, and my father is also aware of the situation that I can do it. :dunno:
I can wait until the car isn't so new and he settled with it i guess, but all I simply want to do is take out a few girls, and just pimp it around, as immature as it my sound haha.
I raced HPDE with my father 6 days over the course of last year, and I was pushed into the next group, (white), and I was also signed off after my 2nd session. This season I will most likely be in the blue group before the end of the season, and I have a great amount of car control etc.
I want to also sign up for the ///M performance day in SC that the car came with, and I'm hyped for that.
Possibly after such an event of driving the M6 in more radical situations learning control, etc, can I be able to acquire more respect and confidence??
The average 17 year old in my school is a freaking idiot i'm going to agree, on an average in my school, every 3 weeks someone is in an accident, and every single student in my school thats driving, (out of 50 about 45 have been in accidents, or fender benders.) There's not alot of us left without any records, (knock on wood.)
For now thats all I can say, I see both sides to the situation, especially with that idiot on Travolta's runway, but I simply wouldn't push this car without my dad in it b/c I myself fear the power in this car, and I would only want to experience it with him. I dont want another batch of tickets either after that unpleasant cop experience