Cops are pulling people over here running straight through mufflers, passing a long coat hanger type of wire to see if your muffler is chambered or straight through, checking to see if your cats are in place, etc.. They also check for things like if your rear tail lights are too tinted, orange bulbs replaced with clear ones for rear turn signals, automobile glass that is too tinted period, and yes, those "ricer" Civics with the Chinese SUPER blue bulbs, some cases even a very Green. They might even check to see the gap between the top of your tire, and the fender lip, to see if your vehicle is too low. If a cop doesn't like you, and he is a car enthusiast, it's game over.
Even then, as much as I hate cars like that in bad taste, you must give a cop a good reason to "rattle you" by the book like that, on all the aforementioned and even more. And by a "reason", I mean you either were impolite with them when they pulled you over for something simple like a seatbelt infraction, or even speeding, and you were being a prick. Respect them, as much as that may irk some. Humans beings by their own egoistic nature, like to flaunt their authority. Let those who that authority enjoy the ride. Don't go against it, or they have every right to go by the book, and perhaps even exaggerate and exceed the rules themselves, in which case you are looking at $$$$ lawers. This happend to a guy at work in his purple Honda Civic coincidentally!
Coming back to bulbs, I was pulled over 3 years ago by a nice looking lady cop(her partner on the right was a male cop), while I was being slightly reckless in my Alpina Turbo on L'Acadie in Montreal. I actually had my Innovate LC-1 hooked up to the laptop, and was doing some A/F mixture tuning, but that's not the reason I got reckless...some idiot who was tailgating me in his Lexus pissed me off, and boy do I hate tailgaters..so I let him have it...I floored it.
Anyways back to the point, after I got pulled over by the two cops, they gave my fully modded, and tastefully done I might add, E30 Alpina C2 2.7 Turbo a thorough run-through. This was the first time after close to 2 decades of ownership, that something like this happened to me. I specifically remember them looking at my custom headlights, which by the way was a full 6000K job with real Philips ballasts, and Euro Projector lenses. Very tasteful, almost stock looking setup. Long story short, the only question they asked me about my car, after the, ahem, "inspection" was why was the exhaust was slightly too loud. They asked me if it was "stock"? I was honest, and said Alpinas were never brought into the country and sold to begin with due to legislation, so I imported ALL the parts in, and assembled it myself, and that the muffler(a real Alpina muffler), was indeed stock in Europe. They searched the car some more, and in the end, they asked me to explain to them how my Innovate LM-1 worked

, and what was the point of it? Long story short, after they told me that they could have "rattled" me with a reckless violation, they ended up complimenting me on the car, to drive safe, and take good care of it!!
Moral of the story. Quality parts + Good taste + A nice car to begin with + Respect =
