aagh, I hate car laws

[scirocco@macslut.org ('84 Scirocco)]

Ah dude that totally sucks!  fucking Missouri!  I'm due in June, bleh.  So
now what do you have to do for your struts?  Dude, we just need to find a
mechanic who will do us right ;-)  you know, make the fee $27 instead of $7
and get a clean ticket.

Greg


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'84 VW Scirocco
'01 Ford Focus ZX3
St. Louis, MO

> From: <jester@westfailure.net>
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:48:53 -0600
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: aagh, I hate car laws
> 
> hi all,
> 
> If you live where there is no safety/emissions inspection consider
> yourself lucky.
> 
> I failed my sfety inspection :(
> 
> no rearview mirror - okay give em that one
> tie rod worn out - okay give em that one, i noticed that too
> no cat installed - dang iknow itll pass emissions but they have to look
> for "safety" to make sure it has a cat, what a crock...
> struts failed - WTF on this one, 4 brand new bilsteins & 4 brand new
> coilover springs. aack. Guess they put it on a lift & noticed the
> coilovers didnt sit on the perches when you had the car in the air.
> no front swaybar - this one ticked me off, nowhere is a swaybar legally
> required, that might be a tell somebody its missing kinda thing, but to
> fail because of it? maybe since they had failed me anyway what does it
> matter one more thing added on there.
> 
> Really, i'm not ticked at the mechanics so much as living in a state where
> they make you jump through all these damn hoops.
> 
> What made the US great was things like a guy getting a car, fixing it up
> changing it & learning inventiveness through it. Now they want us all to
> drive the same car, no more than 3 model years old dont touch under the
> hood if you change it it has to be certified by somebody we think is
> smarter than you not to pollute.
> 
> Why should the government care what is under my hood as long as the
> tailpipe sniffs clean? screw em all.
> 
> Sorry to vent, I feel better now. I was planning to get throttle bodies
> but after this, I can see having to put the CIS-e back in every 2 years to
> satisfy some &^%#$%^*@#&$% pencil pushing beaurocrats neighboorhood excuse
> for a  mechanic minion. I may do it anyway, who knows. Funny thing is the
> ITB's are more efficient technologically advanced and probably twice as
> clean to the sniffer.
> 
> take care,
> 
> Steve "american ingenuity is being killed" White
> 
> P.S. anyone wanna sign me up for a PO box in a state that doesnt test at
> all? hehe.
> 
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