<VV> Police Harassment / Antique Plates
Tony Underwood
tonyu at roava.net
Tue Oct 4 17:57:04 EDT 2005
At 08:21 hours 10/04/2005, mhicks130 at cox.net wrote:
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> However, if for whatever reason the car is involved
>in an accident which was shown to have been caused by the failure of
>a piece of equipment that a VA safety inspection would have
>uncovered, it's your ass.
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>If you're in an accident because something fails it's your ass no
>matter what. Just because your car got inspected doesn't mean it's
>fine for 1 year. Anything can happen. What looks fine today may
>fail tomorrow.
I was talking about worn out brakes, bald tires, ball joints held
together by a film of grease, steer gear falling off a rusted-through
frame member... obvious stuff, not fluke failures.
>My brakes locked up right after I bought the car due to bad hoses
>which looked just fine on the outside. As far as I know the
>inspectors aren't taking the flex lines off to look inside.
>
>I agree vintage car owners should be vigilant about making sure
>their car is roadworthy but so should people with regular
>registrations. don't count on the inspections only.
My comment was about ignoring or overlooking via apathy obvious
issues which a safety inspection would have grounded the vehicle
for. It's these things that the vintage vehicle operator need worry
about, and do their own safety inspection *often*.
tony..
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