[Maverick]

Just wanted to share my tale with all of you. I went out last night to rent a movie, and on my way home I decided I wanted to drive a little more (it was a nice night out). So I took a route which I had never taken before, but I was pretty sure that I knew where it would lead me. I was just enjoying myself with the windows down "and the system up". I reached the outskirts of town and realized that I had no idea where I was, so I turned around. As I came over a hill, and back into town, I saw a cop car, but didnt think much of it since I wasnt (fortunatley) speeding. I drove past, but checked my rearview mirror just out of habbit, and sure enough there were the old red and blue lights. It turns out that in the town I was in, if the sound system can be heard from fifty feet, its a ticketable offense. So now I have a $55 ticket to deal with. All I can say is, the stock system in the Taurus is nice, regardless of what people say.

~~Maverick~~

 

[Mcgilles]

we have laws like that in some areas around here. its such crap you can hear someone talking in a normal from 50 feet away. in blacksburg I've heard there is a town ordinance that allows tickets for an exhaust that can be heard more than 50 feet away, that makes about half the cars on the road illegal, with stock exhaust!

 

[RAMdrd]

It's really annoying when others think I want to listen to their system from my car. And there are not enough tickets given for blasting radio/stereos where I live.

That said, I turn my stock system up (it's the Mach System) from time to time. But I also turn it down when I'm stopped in traffic (even though I have *great* taste in music! LOL)

Two things I don't like about my "system" is that the volume does not increase with road noise (and therefore decrease with it) and the tuner is not very sensitive. I can't do anything about the first, but I'll try adding an Am/FM signal booster into the antenna input and see if that helps.

When I play a CD-- it sounds great! If only I could swap in a CD/MP3 disc player.