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1. Safety inspection? (score: 1)
Author: "Eric A. Yates" <eyates@enteract.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:56:12 -0500
In Illinois, we don't have any safety inspection whatsoever. The state doesn't care if your car falls apart at speed, killing all occupants... as long as it has clean exhaust emissions as it careens
/html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00393.html (7,849 bytes)

2. RE: Safety inspection? (score: 1)
Author: "Simmons, Reid W" <reid.w.simmons@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:34:15 -0700
Back when we had safety inspections in Florida some of the things they checked for were: 1) How well your brakes work 2) How well your emergency brake holds under forward power 3) All lights and sid
/html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00406.html (9,016 bytes)

3. Re: Safety inspection? (score: 1)
Author: Kevin Rhodes <krhodes1@maine.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:10:58 -0400
I can give you more or less what Maine looks at, and Maine is fairly tough as I understand. However, while the official standards are tough, in practice the actual inspection varies considerably from
/html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00410.html (11,767 bytes)

4. RE: Safety inspection? (score: 1)
Author: Richard B Gosling <Gosling_Richard_B@perkins.com>
Date: 12 Jul 2000 03:37:10 -0500
This all came up a couple of weeks ago, when someone asked me what an MOT was, and there was discussion for days on whether or not it was a good idea to have a compulsory safety check! The MOT (Mini
/html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00440.html (9,056 bytes)

5. Re: Safety inspection? (score: 1)
Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:56:51 +0100
I don't think safety inspections are especially helpful to people like you (and I hope most of the listers) who check and look after their cars properly. They are designed for the reckless car owner
/html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00441.html (9,262 bytes)

6. Re: Safety inspection? (score: 1)
Author: "DT Gebhard" <kimkell@decaturnet.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 09:12:01 -0500
--Can someone from a state with strict safety inspections put together a list of all the things that are checked? I'd like to go over my own car and be sure all is well. info!!!! Safety can NEVER be
/html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00443.html (9,281 bytes)

7. Re: Safety inspection? (score: 1)
Author: "Nolan Penney" <npenney@mde.state.md.us>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:44:55 -0400
Chuckle, in a Spitfire? Safety is inherently sacrificed by riding around in Safety can NEVER be sacrificed... Dave
/html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00445.html (8,077 bytes)

8. Re: Safety inspection? (score: 1)
Author: "Marcus Schaper" <mschaper@gvpt.umd.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:17:24 -0400
Essentially check if everything in your car works and is within manufacturer's - suspension: are all bushings tight - no play? Any play in joints (ball joints, u-joints, stabilizer bar end links, tie
/html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00447.html (9,383 bytes)

9. RE: Safety inspection? (score: 1)
Author: "Simmons, Reid W" <reid.w.simmons@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 09:01:58 -0700
The safety inspections were started for the most part because the vast majority of car owners never "take a wrench" to their cars and probably wouldn't know how to if they had to. Additionally, they
/html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00449.html (10,356 bytes)

10. RE: Safety inspection? (score: 1)
Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.scranton.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:07:20 -0400 (EDT)
Would that it were truly so. While most of this is true, it is also true that in most places (and I have lived in a number of different parts of the country during my many years in the Army) you can
/html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00456.html (10,252 bytes)

11. Re: Safety inspection? (score: 1)
Author: "DT Gebhard" <kimkell@decaturnet.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 08:15:21 -0500
Nolan, I wholeheartedly disagree with that statement. Yea they're small.Not much protection. But the most BASIC safety precautions have to be observed. Good brakes,tires,steering,seat belts,lights,br
/html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00550.html (9,378 bytes)

12. Re: Safety inspection? (score: 1)
Author: "Nolan Penney" <npenney@mde.state.md.us>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:47:36 -0400
You misunderstand my point. I've ridden motorcycles for many years now, out on the public roads. From New York city to California, Canada to Mexico. I've taught motorcycle safety courses in years pas
/html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00575.html (10,760 bytes)

13. RE: Safety inspection? (score: 1)
Author: Mike Welch <mikew@turbopower.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:17:33 -0600
On my first Spit (a '65) I installed one of those bicycle flags (5' fiberglass pole with an orange triangular flag) off the rear bumper. I did that after a semi merged into my lane and I ended up doi
/html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00581.html (11,363 bytes)

14. Re: Safety inspection? (score: 1)
Author: "alemen@pop.ftconnect.com" <alemen@pop.ftconnect.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 15:40:00 -0400
Mike, Like you my wife had a similar experience with a semi. But she was in a big bright red minivan! Alan On my first Spit (a '65) I installed one of those bicycle flags (5' fiberglass pole with an
/html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00584.html (11,993 bytes)

15. RE: Safety inspection? (score: 1)
Author: Bill Gunshannon <bill@cs.scranton.edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:47:20 -0400 (EDT)
Wouldn't have done any good. The trucker just didn't care. I have been run off the road by trucks on the Interstate frequently and that wasn't in the Spitfire. That was in a Volvo Station Wagon and a
/html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00585.html (9,445 bytes)

16. RE: Safety inspection? (score: 1)
Author: Craig Smith <CraigS@iewc.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:55:10 -0500
Iwas going down I85 towards Atlanta the other week and was passed by an 81 You know what, I bet you could pass under the trailer without touching a thing if you were that stupid to try... Just an ide
/html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00586.html (12,211 bytes)

17. Re: Safety inspection? (score: 1)
Author: "wizardz" <wizardz@maxinter.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:15:00 -0400
BTDT ...got passenger finger prints PUNCHED clean through the dashtop vinyl to prove it. (plus a little odor to deal with) It happened on a bridge no less. It was a choice of crunching up against the
/html/spitfires/2000-07/msg00587.html (12,827 bytes)

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