Ignition Interlock Device

“so if you refuse a test and you are going through the criminal court system the dmv will still be notified of that and you may have to get an interlock device installed in your car if you blow hot on a on a breath test or you do a blood test and it comes back and they revoke you you'll have to get an interlock now the way that we get people's licenses back early is by having that interlock device installed”

“and the rules around when you have an interlock uh depend number one on how many dui's you've had and number two what your bac or your blood alcohol content is so if you have like below a 0.15 so the legal limit for driving if you're over 0.08 that is driving under the influence if you're below 1.15 so almost two times that limit um a lot of first-time offenders will only have to keep an interlock device installed in their car for nine months and a really cool thing that a lot of interlock providers do we we work primarily with intoxilock just because they give our clients discounts which is super cool um but a lot of things that intoxilizer provider providers will do is they'll say well if you go a certain number of months without having any hot hits or any issues we'll let you off early so they can send a petition and the shortest i've seen someone having intox and toxolock in their car was three to four months because they were doing totally fine every time they got in they didn't have any issues um”

“but personally intoxilizers in your car kind of scare me because you have to blow into them while you're driving um and anytime it dings you have to blow and you have to blow long on hard enough which this sounds kind of dirty we are live talking about blowing into things in the car um so but you have to make sure that you've got the breath behind it to support it you have to make sure that you don't have anything that could register as alcohol going on either i've actually had clients who a lot of you may know about the keto diet where you're trying to eat only like a high fat diet yeah you actually produce a lot of acetone in your breath when you're on that diet and that can register as a heart attack yeah yeah it's crazy so there are a lot of different components even though there are some basic tips that we can give you guys for duis there are a lot of different nuances with that but for the most part um someone with an intoxilyzer in their car is going to be going for it's called an interlock but um with an interlock device they'll be looking at any anywhere between four to four months to 24 months depending on the severity okay and then”

“sometimes they can lessen if you're doing doing your thing i mean good choices as with anything if you make the right choices you're going to have a much easier time exactly exactly and then is that something that you get approved like through that interlock company is it the dmv is it the court how do you how do you get off that's a great question how do you get out of that how do you stop blowing yeah so with the the interlock device in your car um you have to get a private company to install it honestly i tell people that have really nice cars you want to get a like a bang-up car because it can really mess with your systems um sometimes the installation you want to go to a certified installer because if you get some janky like back alley person installing it they can mess up with all of your systems in your car then you might get pulled over again because it might turn your headlights off um so you want to make sure you have a certified interlock provider put it in your car um the ignition won't start unless you blow into the device and then they are reading it so these things are pretty sophisticated it has like a little tube that you blow into that measures your bac and then they've got a camera mounted on the dash so they are looking at you when you're blowing into it this is a big deal because if you get in your car and you're drunk and you ask your passenger to blow into it for you they will see that they're gonna see it they take pictures good luck yeah so you'll be on candid camera there we go um but to get it out of your car you have to talk to your interlock provider and say hey am i able to get off early they'll send a note to the dmv and they'll say we have not had any issues with this person we're good with them getting off early and then the dmv will process that so it's kind of a joint effort yeah yeah yeah that's good to know um”