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OT: OMG!!!!
Why vehicle safety inspections are needed: (hope this link works, you may have to log onto facebook?)
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10202333113648180
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10202333113648180
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I've got a picture I took of a Toyota pick up that just passed NY State Inspection. Sitting alongside the road bent in half with a broken frame.
There are a lot of Federal BS regulations that are put in place because of clueless ----- people. Such as TPMS,
There are a lot of Federal BS regulations that are put in place because of clueless ----- people. Such as TPMS,
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I have never complained about Pennsylvania's vehicle inspection program - I was stationed in Dayton Ohio for the last eight years of my enlistment - Once a year I got my PA inspection sticker, I didn't have to but I wanted to make sure all those cuties I was draggin home were safe
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Wow, interesting. Just this afternoon, while riding in my truck with my son Andy, I noticed a hopped up white Chevy 4X4 and asked him if that was his friend's girlfriend. It was. We replaced all of the brake lines on this truck last spring. One line broke open because of rust and the others weren't too far behind. Andy told me the girl was complaining about a noise in one of her wheels and a couple of people told her it was the wheel bearing and offered to repair it if she brought it in. Finally it got so bad she took it to someone and they found the front wheel bearing completely gone, along with the wrecking the rotor and caliper. I've heard so many vehicles going down the road with something squealing, not just a little chirping but with an all out screaming like a jungle animal being attacked. I've seen the same cars over and over and the owner seem oblivious.
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I know when I left NYS 10 years ago they were in the process of changing the inspection process, it wasn't implemented in all parts of the state at the time. Prior to that, it was not hard to find an "official inspection station" that was willing to hand over a sticker for $25 sight unseen.
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NY went to OBDII testing the emissions monitors (1996 and newer) They're finding out the monitors are doing such a good job that upstate NY won't have to go through a sniffer test.
Now if the check engine light comes on and you spend $450 in repairs and light still won't go out...you get a sticker.
On the other side NY did away with a lot that I consider safety. Such as ball joints, head light aiming, brakes have to be down to the steel to flunk. And a weird one: if the vehicle exhaust makes "more noise than the sound of the engine running" it won't pass inspection.
Now if the check engine light comes on and you spend $450 in repairs and light still won't go out...you get a sticker.
On the other side NY did away with a lot that I consider safety. Such as ball joints, head light aiming, brakes have to be down to the steel to flunk. And a weird one: if the vehicle exhaust makes "more noise than the sound of the engine running" it won't pass inspection.
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NY went to OBDII testing the emissions monitors (1996 and newer) They're finding out the monitors are doing such a good job that upstate NY won't have to go through a sniffer test.
Now if the check engine light comes on and you spend $450 in repairs and light still won't go out...you get a sticker.
On the other side NY did away with a lot that I consider safety. Such as ball joints, head light aiming, brakes have to be down to the steel to flunk. And a weird one: if the vehicle exhaust makes "more noise than the sound of the engine running" it won't pass inspection.
Now if the check engine light comes on and you spend $450 in repairs and light still won't go out...you get a sticker.
On the other side NY did away with a lot that I consider safety. Such as ball joints, head light aiming, brakes have to be down to the steel to flunk. And a weird one: if the vehicle exhaust makes "more noise than the sound of the engine running" it won't pass inspection.
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Back when I was wrenching I had several cars come in with the rotors wore completely through. Yes, they were typically driven by younger women. Nothing as bad as what was in that video but still danged scary