Jammer legal in my province but going on a road trip

[frizzlefry]

Here is a question for those who may know how the laws regarding jammers is applied, particularly in Canadian Provinces. I live in Alberta, my jammer is legal and so is my V1. I am driving to a town in Ontario. Radar detectors and jammers are illegal in Manitoba and Ontario. My gut says to not use my V1 (hides a bit, but not 100% from RDD) and turn off the Jammer. But I have heard horror stories about people getting impounded because they had not-in-use-Jammers installed that the RCMP could not remove, for obvious reasons. So they impound the car citing provincial law that’s its illegal to operate a motor vehicle with such a device installed...in use or not. Could they do that if my car is out of province? I don't require front plates in Alberta and they do in Ontario but they can't impound my car for violating plate laws...anyone know what the RCMP are doing about jammers on cars where the registered province allows them but the car is in a province in which they are illegal? I plan on not using the V1 and turning off the jammer. But the horror story I saw posted was a guy waved over for vehicle inspections along with everyone else (they do that in Ontario apparently). Guy was from BC, in Ontario, jammers off, no RD and the RCMP impounded him.

[Woodscolby]

Buy yourself a cheap cobra detector that you can swap for your V1 if you get pulled over for having an RD. JTK with the jammers and you should be fine. Hopefully someone else that lives in ontario or makes a drive through ontario can give you some better advice.

[frizzlefry]

Buy yourself a cheap cobra detector that you can swap for your V1 if you get pulled over for having an RD. JTK with the jammers and you should be fine. Hopefully someone else that lives in ontario or makes a drive through ontario can give you some better advice.

I would think JTG would be ASKING for trouble....luckly for me, my M25 head placement is quite stealth. Looks good. A bit too far from the headlights for garaunteed JTG so I am considering buying a M27 CPU and replacing the M25 CPU (my heads are J-17SC so they are compatible). Granted, if a cop thinks I have a jammer and looks hard enough he will find them but on a passive, standard, inspection when I am the 15th car he has checked out the past 30 minutes I bet they would be overlooked.

[Windstorm]

I've lived in Ontario for 20 years and never heard of a "vehicle inspection"

There is no RCMP in Ontario - there is OPP. OPP hate jammers and yes they are illegal - If you want to play the "it's legal in my province" card I would suggest you hard disconnect the jammer (in a way you can easily demonstrate to the officer) and hope for the best - it's still no guarantee you will be let off. OTOH I use a jammer here...though I yet to experience the pleasure of jamming OPP..I have faith in JTK (He said JTK not JTG).

As far as RDDs go I wouldn't risk using your V1... almost every OPP car has a Spectre. Do without or borrow a STi

[STiMULi]

I am not a Canadian and I was reading about the Search laws as compared to the US and I have heard of that search happening without provocation.

Don't go and spend good money for a piece of crap buy a used piece of crap from Craigslist or eBay and have a stand by if it is your last resort.

You can get a POS RD for very cheap that way. Just make sure you have the mount and cord for it too

[hockey005]

idk about manitoba but the OPP have spectres...i would NOT use your v1..keep in mind if u get caught doing over 150 kph ur car will get impounded for a week and fined like $1000 or something...keep the jammers on and dont JTG

[STiMULi]

Canada sounds fun to drive in and around!!

[hockey005]

Canada sounds fun to drive in and around!!

yea ontarios street racing law which is bs...if ur doing like 94-95mph (150 as stated above) ur done....that with NO rds in most provinces...and laser

[OldGoat]

Buy yourself a cheap cobra detector that you can swap for your V1 if you get pulled over for having an RD. JTK with the jammers and you should be fine. Hopefully someone else that lives in ontario or makes a drive through ontario can give you some better advice.

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keep it someplace warm, so it feels recently used when you hand it to him

Hopefully avoiding this

Detector confiscated by OPP
there's just no way this isn't funny

[dcdave78]

O.k. first off shut the radar detector off... OPP will take your fancy V1 I can promise that. Unless you have a redline, Sti Driver I wouldnt chance it. I have been driving in Ontario with a Li Jammer and a Sti Driver for two years, and have had many encouters with OPP in my area ( 8-10 to be exact) I have been tagged with laser about 7 of the times(laser atlanta/LTI 20-20 seem to be weapon of choice ) and the rest instant on K band.

Play the game once you are hit slow down get under the posted speed limit shut the jammer off. I have a LIDAR gun and sometimes it takes a couple seconds to get a lock the officer will think nothing off it. Everybody is scared to run jammers in Ontario you just have to be smart about it.

And another interesting thing on more than one occasion I have seen OPP using instant on ( considering Ontario has a ban on radardetectors it's weird ) Unless they are catching on and know there is a couple of detectors that Spectre cant net. Thoughts on this are the OPP catching on?