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6. wake up next morning to the following.....

 

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Interesting analogy. Only a male gender would see it that way. There is an old saying that "the real blind dates come without brakes".

 

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Some good advice in general especially for the brits !
Sadly, over here the regulations are way too relaxed and they don't have anything close to MOT.
With regards to regulations, you must have a valid driving license on you at all times and the insurance doesn't stop you driving other cars either, it just simply covers the car and the name on the insurance indicates who legally owns the car.

Just a little tip to add to your many above,-
When inspecting a used car to purchase, I used to also check the engine compartment/body work and all door hinges...etc... to see if the screws holding the joints had screwdriver wear marks and or if they were original ! (you can usually see slite chipping on surrounding paint around screwhead as well)
Since paint jobs are excellently matched nowadays, you can only see if a car was totalled or had major body work by inspecting these screw heads.

 

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Oh yeah there are some death traps and nutters on the road !
You will sometimes see a hillbilly driving an old rusty station wagon without any proper working lights/wipers..etc.. in the slow lane blowing out black smoke!
You just stay away from it, that seems to be the general idea with all motorists.

They have this requirement for ''aircare'' on used cars but this is valid for 2 years and is only a 3-5 minute check on gas emmisions- that's all !!!!
No tire checks, fluid checks, brake function checks..etc... like MOT.
There is no official legal limit on tire tread as far as I know, except that if completely bald or near visible bald then they are illegal !
In other words if a 7 yr old kid can see your tire is bald and has no tread, then you know it's illegal !
It just seems bonkers at first !!!

With tires, I also found that the majority of punctures can be repaired, whereas in UK they will only repair or patch legally if it is below a certain size and within a certain area of the tire.- But here, they will patch up anywhere as long as it is not on the side rim of the tire !

There are quite a lot of differences with motorists and I could go on...
But the most amusing one I find is that most motorists don't even know what litre engine size their car is ???
You see, up until recently fuel has always been dirt cheap here and they have never had to give much thought on engine size when purchasing cars.
So most people go for whatever is available and they never thought twice of having something 4.5 litre compared to 2.5 litre, instead they pay more interest in the power of whether the car is 4 cylinder, V6, V8 or V12 !!

It's real funny because when I ask most people what engine size their car is, they say V6 or V8 !!

I know some regulations in UK can be annoying, but they are all there for good reasons and our own welfare.


Another funny episode we had here is when we got pulled over and flashed down by the police.
I immediately did what i would do in UK and that is to get out of the car and see what's up or what the problem is.-BUT, when I got out, the police announced on their huge tannoy speaker for me to 'freeze where I was and put my hands in the air !!!
I thought ''what the hell is going on''
It was like being in a movie stood outside my car with my hands in the air !
I later learned that you never ever get out of your vehicle when stopped and they can end up shooting you because you may have got out to shoot them or threaten them !!!!!!!
....WHAT?????
Yes, the police will think that I have got out and am walking towards them with an intent to harm and they can argue and reason their own rights to shoot me !

 

US is a scandal galore in the used car business. Totalled cars are refinished and sold as used with the welded chassis which can fall through anytime.

What Lucky Singh calls Aircare, we call it Smog check here and the new car does not need it for 3 years. After that it is an yearly business. Everything is computerised and connected directly to DMV. However, the smog testers know how to manipulate it. Hence, you get the Smog certificate even if your car is smoking out more than an industrial chimney.

The intentional "accidents" on the road are a common thing here. especially in Vegas due to millions of tourists renting cars. Many gangs, mainly from eastern Europe got caught last year.

If you get caught speeding, the fines are very high and you have to go to the traffic school in order to avoid the rise in your insurance rates, especially when you are driving in the School Zone.

Well, there is a cure for that too. You can hire a lawyer anywhere from $25.00 to $100.00 who will get your speeding ticket changed into parking violation. It is all done on the phone with your CC. The fine is reduced and no traffic school for 8 hours needed which also costs about $100.00. I have used the $25.00 one twice while picking my kids up, because I was 3 to 5 miles faster than the required speed. But the interesting part is that I have recommended my faceless lawyer to so many "criminals" including the ones with DUI's that he has promised me free services for my crimes in the future.

"May God keep on blessing the US of A, and the hell with the rest of the world" as a redneck, whose face is redder than his neck would say.

Tejwant Singh

 

Does sound to me as if auto-mechanics are sounding more each day like baba derawales lol and you have the right spiritual attitude toward car repairs and spiritual progress.

 

Talking about the Auto- Mechanics, there is a big franchised company in the west spread around in different states, called pxxxxxxx Auto Service owned by a Pakistani is a total rip off. They train their franchisees how to con the customers. It has so many law suits against them and there is a minimum sales in the contract clause for any franchisee. If it goes below that then the franchiser can take it away which often happens. Most of the owners are Asians and Eastern Europeans.

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