The Automotive Thread
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yes and no. It does make it difficult to drive a dangerous vehicle (even if you wan to) and you have to provide a valid registration and you need proof of insurance to have a valid registration, so it's another means of keeping uninsured vehicles aren't on the road.
Of course there are still unregisterd, uninsured, and uninspected vehicles running around waiting to ticketed.
Of course there are still unregisterd, uninsured, and uninspected vehicles running around waiting to ticketed.
Dexman PE PMP
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License plates are only held on by 2 or 4 screws. Plus, anytime one is left on the side of the road after a car accident, guess where it goes...
And those year stickers are insanely easy to peel off.
And those year stickers are insanely easy to peel off.
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Dexman PE PMP
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Just think about all of those POS cars in the right lane going 10 under the speed limit. It's not because they can't go faster, they just don't want anyone to look twice at them.
MetsFan
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Yep, one of my coworkers from my old job peeled stole a registration sticker off another car to put on her car.
passenger registrations (except special registrations like vanity plates) are renewed every 2 years (inspections are annually). Driving an unregisterd/uninsured vehicle is an arrest warrant/court offense as opposed to a ticket.
Road Guy
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I got pulled over for a suspected altered tag (crumpled tag due to a wreck) years ago, luckily I still had an active military ID at the time, but I was put in the back of the police car until they figured out that I wasn't running drugs from Miami. Cop told me to remove the tag and throw it away and drive straight to dmv to get a new one and that suspected altered tags usually take you straight to jail- he let me go cause I was in the military, but it was a little unnerving...
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inspections (or the lack of them being needed) is why keep our cars registered in bama
Dexman PE PMP
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The emissions requirements are only needed along the I-25 corridor here in CO. Once you get about 50 miles either side of the freeway, nothing is needed.
Well, I survived the weekend!
Target time for the mountain was a 150. The guy who ran an S2 model 944 earlier this year laid down a 144 (208HP and stiffer suspension vs. my 144 HP base model).
Rained all Saturday morning - first four runs were pretty pathetic. Got one run in where the course was dry on the bottom, laid down a 148.8.
Sunday morning, course dry at the bottom and most of the top. Only got two runs in since I had to leave for the wedding. First run was a 148.6. Last run, decided car was going on the trailer whether it was running or not. Quick into turn 1, did not lift at all for the next 3. Downshifted for the wicked right hander, did not lift again for the next 3. Got into the snakeskin esses - whoooo, this is getting sketchy, but I'm staying in it! A little lift before WOT into the final turn, across the line in... 143.
Man oh man, was that last run ever fun. That bone-ass-stock car is the most neutral handling thing I've ever driven. When the tires let go, all 4 went at the same time for some controlled 3-4 foot slides. I think if I took a bit more weight out of the car and used stickier tires to let me go flat out into two of the turns, there could even be a 139.999 hiding in that thing somewhere...
Scariest part of the entire weekend? Driving the truck and trailer down 28 south from western NC into GA. My shoulders are killing me today. And I still beat Google's time by 1 minute...
Target time for the mountain was a 150. The guy who ran an S2 model 944 earlier this year laid down a 144 (208HP and stiffer suspension vs. my 144 HP base model).
Rained all Saturday morning - first four runs were pretty pathetic. Got one run in where the course was dry on the bottom, laid down a 148.8.
Sunday morning, course dry at the bottom and most of the top. Only got two runs in since I had to leave for the wedding. First run was a 148.6. Last run, decided car was going on the trailer whether it was running or not. Quick into turn 1, did not lift at all for the next 3. Downshifted for the wicked right hander, did not lift again for the next 3. Got into the snakeskin esses - whoooo, this is getting sketchy, but I'm staying in it! A little lift before WOT into the final turn, across the line in... 143.
Man oh man, was that last run ever fun. That bone-ass-stock car is the most neutral handling thing I've ever driven. When the tires let go, all 4 went at the same time for some controlled 3-4 foot slides. I think if I took a bit more weight out of the car and used stickier tires to let me go flat out into two of the turns, there could even be a 139.999 hiding in that thing somewhere...
Scariest part of the entire weekend? Driving the truck and trailer down 28 south from western NC into GA. My shoulders are killing me today. And I still beat Google's time by 1 minute...
Road Guy
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that sounds like a lot of fun, so do they get a permit to close the road? (dumb question)
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So Saturday the wife drove up to pick up one of our kids from horse riding nonsense, on the way home she calls terrified cause her car is smoking up (on the inside) she thinks the hybrid battery is on fire, she pulls over, runs away from the vehicle, calls 911, AAA, me, etc...
I drive to the scene and find the fire department chuckling cause apparently she drove around 20 miles with the parking brake on
now we have a thousand warning lights on the car, hopefully its just the parking brake and didn't affect much else, but it was a un needed crisis on a day before I had to go out of town..
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So Saturday the wife drove up to pick up one of our kids from horse riding nonsense, on the way home she calls terrified cause her car is smoking up (on the inside) she thinks the hybrid battery is on fire, she pulls over, runs away from the vehicle, calls 911, AAA, me, etc...
I drive to the scene and find the fire department chuckling cause apparently she drove around 20 miles with the parking brake on
now we have a thousand warning lights on the car, hopefully its just the parking brake and didn't affect much else, but it was a un needed crisis on a day before I had to go out of town..
Yes. Permits come from DOT, Forest Service, Fire Marshall, and Sheriff's Office. They have some pretty strict regulations, but we've never had any issues. (e.g. when refueling, you HAVE to have someone there doing a fire watch, extinguisher in hand.) We coordinate a lot of it through the woman in charge of county tourism, who has been wonderful to work with. Unfortunately, our current board of directors is sort of running it into the ground...
MetsFan
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The check engine light for my car finally came back on. I guess since I've only driven about 1,000 miles in the last 4 months, it's taken a while to come back. I haven't had a chance to check it yet, but hopefully this will tell me if it's the coil pack, spark plugs, or something else.
snickerd3
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just dropped $50 yesterday on getting a rock (or hail) chip fixed on my windshield.
Here's one for all you vehicular love makers out there (SFW):
http://jalopnik.com/inside-the-bizarre-world-of-chinas-badly-photoshopped-i-1731451832
http://jalopnik.com/inside-the-bizarre-world-of-chinas-badly-photoshopped-i-1731451832
Dexman PE PMP
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I don't care what anyone says, the Camaro is not a very comfortable vehicle for that stuff.
Dexman PE PMP
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Turn off parking brain, turn on driving brain. Otherwise activate budget brain.
