"No, I don't thank you for the fish at all" (notindetroit)
10/09/2015 at 13:05 • Filed to: None
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"No, I don't thank you for the fish at all" (notindetroit)
10/09/2015 at 13:05 • Filed to: None | 0
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A lawyer no less who brags about his 78 F-150 and the rough shape it’s in, including, instead of replacing one of the wiper blades he just fixed a ski glove onto the wiper blade.
Hmmm...
Cost of a wiper blade for a 1978 Ford F-150: $4.21
http://www.partstrain.com/store/details/…
Cost of a ski glove: $23.89
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...ok.
CalzoneGolem
> No, I don't thank you for the fish at all
10/09/2015 at 13:12 |
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I’m sure dude guy just had a glove laying around in his truck and slapped it on there, but your point stands.
MonkeePuzzle
> No, I don't thank you for the fish at all
10/09/2015 at 13:17 |
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I always feel so safe driving around in a state with no physical inspection requirements. Oh look, that car has a rusty swiss cheese body, I’m sure they have excellent tyres and well maintained brakes!
jariten1781
> MonkeePuzzle
10/09/2015 at 13:33 |
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Lived lots of time in both, the condition of cars at the bottom end of the scale aren’t appreciably different nor are the numbers. If someone insists on driving a death trap they’ll either get a shady inspection, fake the inspection, or...most often...not bother getting it inspected/registered and just risk the tickets. The inspections do help keeping clueless appliance drivers keep up with periodic maintenance (brakes, wipers, tires, etc.) but they also introduce unscrupulous stations that fail them for compliant parts hoping they’ll roll over and pay for a service they don’t need.
I’m sure that, statistically, inspection states are marginally ‘safer'; but it’s totally in the noise. Well maintained cars are still well maintained, mid-tier cars are very slightly better maintained, and shit boxes are still accidents waiting to happen.
I’d rather get rid of them.
Pixel
> No, I don't thank you for the fish at all
10/09/2015 at 13:46 |
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Ah the joys of false economies.
I knew someone who needed to replace the exhaust on their shitbox s10 pickup. They decided to piece one together from the generic muffler & pipe sections at autozone. An entire of weekend of cutting & fitting and clamping and going back for more pieces and trying to figure out how to make things work and they’d spent about $90 and 15 hours making this frankenstein thing. On their last trip to pick up one more clamp she decided to ask the counter person how much the direct-fit exhaust system was. It was $150.
Jake Huitt - Two Alfas And A Nissan, Not A Single Running Car
> MonkeePuzzle
10/09/2015 at 14:24 |
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It’s true for my car. Lots of rust but brand new tires today and brakes Tuesday. My brakes are getting bad so I’m borrowing a different car until I can do them. They’re at the wear indicators. Tires were starting to get low as well. :)
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> MonkeePuzzle
10/09/2015 at 14:30 |
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That’s what I love about Charlie! He
looks
like he’s about to fall apart on the road, but everything underneath has been completely rebuilt and modified. It’s great when you show up at a track event to people laughing at your car then CRUSH THEM.
Master Cylinder
> No, I don't thank you for the fish at all
10/09/2015 at 14:35 |
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Hey, it’s rough out there for lawyers these days.
Also yay sierra trading post
BigBlock440
> Pixel
10/09/2015 at 14:35 |
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They saved $60, that’s a win
Berang
> jariten1781
10/09/2015 at 14:55 |
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I have to say, having lived in both, the inspections seem to make a difference. Total shitboxes are rare in Texas, in fact compared to other states I’ve lived in older cars in general are rare (I know a lot of them go to Mexico and would go even without inspections though). I don’t know if it actually makes the roads safer, but there are a lot less cars running around the streets in failure mode.
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Pixel
> BigBlock440
10/09/2015 at 15:12 |
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At a cost of 15 hours of work(vs 1-2 for putting in a stock system), multiple trips to the auto parts store, and had a kludged-together system with a higher chance of leaking and which would probably not last as long.
False economy.