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A lot of the reasons people get pulled over is that they've done enough dumb shit that they have some kind of profile built up over time for prior shenanigans. Its not actually your car!
So the automatic system in every patrol car sees your number plate, cop wants to know what you are and it'll tell them if you've got a history and current parole, arrest records, defects, DUI, speeding and so on. They'll pull you over all the time and its really not something you can ever shake, or worse yet if you've bought a car from someone with that record, best to get a new set of plates or you'll inherit some of their bullshit for a time until the system figures out you're nobody in particular.
I've driven modified cars since about 2000, mostly northern Sydney for about 15 years which is pretty heavily policed, but never got pinged for anything as I don't have a record for nothing
Closest I got was a mistaken identity one night, but that got cleared quickly as they looked at the car and figured out the S13 wasn't the Commo they were looking for and on my way, packing shit because I'd bodged a direct air vent bov as a temp fix, the car was practically straight through exhaust, massive IC up front, big tubbo, induction roar, too dark tint, probably too low and it was prone to shooting flames out during gear shifts.
Only other times I've been pulled over was cops going 'oh, thats an extremely rare JDM car' and we end up talking cars for about half an hour

Out here in the country, no one gives a fuck what you're driving around really, as long as its not going sideways or doing 200km/h