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How crappy can your car be and it be OK to drive?

Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,049 ✭✭✭✭
edited February 2011 in General Discussion
I was driving behind this guy today and just looking over his car it looked like duct tape was holding most of it together. He did have some rivets holding 1/2 of his plastic rear window onto the car. The thing that made me back off and stay away from the guy is the rear wheel. It wobbled like a hula dancer from Tahiti.

I just wonder if the police saw this....would they stop him from driving on the road? This can't be "fine" to drive crap like that on the road. He could lose that wheel any moment from the looks of things.
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  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,426 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    was it select in his new camaro??????????
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,521 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by hillbille
    was it select in his new camaro??????????


    [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,491 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Someone wanted a group photo of the fleet. Maybe tomorrow I will get them out , warm up the engines and take a pic. I think I might need a wide angle lens to get all 7 cars in the pic.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Do y'all have "INSPECTION" in Bama? We don't in Fl.We have some of the smokinest piles of dung on the highway U EVER SEEN!
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    They don't call "duct tape" 100mph tape for nothing.[:D]
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    Depends.

    If the engine, transmission, and brakes are ok, and the suspension isn't so clapped out as to make braking problematic, and the tires aren't bald... well then pretty crappy.

    That's being generous too. You can have some pretty major engine and tranny problems and still drive, and be safe, just risk breaking down.
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  • mrseatlemrseatle Member Posts: 15,467 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    [B)]
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  • LesWVaLesWVa Member Posts: 10,490 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Oakie
    Originally posted by hillbille
    was it select in his new camaro??????????


    That is why he hauls his Camaro's around on trailers. Liability issue. The insurance does not cover rusted out wheels, frames and brake lines.
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  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That is why I actually like the inspection law in Virginia. gets crap like that off the road. IMHO no different then being on the road with a drunk driver is to have someone with a unsafe car.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    Sure an inspection gets crap off the road, BUT some ppl cant afford new cars, or they just dont want to go into debt...

    I have seen families going hungry just so they can make the car payment...
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  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,049 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    For the first 5 years of our marriage I drove a car that didn't cost $2000. I didn't have anything like that car I saw earlier.

    I didn't have air...
    The radio may or may not have worked...
    If you let the windows down you had to "help" them back up by pulling them up a little at first...
    The dash was crackled...
    The seats were stained...
    The carpet would pass for linoleum...

    But...it was safe to drive.
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  • torosapotorosapo Member Posts: 4,946
    edited November -1
    It all depends on your skill level.[:D] I've driven pieces of junk for years. Sometimes I don't have the money for a good car, then I drive what I can. There are a lot of folks out there like that.
    I wouldn't buy a brand new car anymore even if I could afford it. I like my old 70's cars and trucks, I can work on them.
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  • oldemagicsoldemagics Member Posts: 5,846 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ask any mechanic, or at least the older ones!
    after fixing other peoples cars all day the last thing you wanted to do was work on another car.... mainly your own
    it used to be almost bragging rights when a bunch of wrenches got together, when the discussion wound around to their vehicles
    "yea she does pretty good, only needs..."
    the next guy
    "sounds about like mine but it also needs..."
    seeing who had either the longest list or the most "really needs to be done!" items but still going and stopping and getting there (petty much) in one peice
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,491 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by LesWVa
    quote:Originally posted by Oakie
    Originally posted by hillbille
    was it select in his new camaro??????????


    That is why he hauls his Camaro's around on trailers. Liability issue. The insurance does not cover rusted out wheels, frames and brake lines.


    for the umpteenth time. I have an enclosed trailer . They go IN the trailer not ON the trailer. geesh. BTW.. They only still have 14 mile on em'[:D]
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  • tapwatertapwater Member Posts: 10,335 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ...Depends on how far I had to go from home. Around 1980, I had a '63(?) Falcon that was a death trap. The bench seat had rusted away from the floor. That's an indication of the shape it was in.
    ...I drove it on gravel roads only: 3 mi. to work, 3 mi. to the fishin' hole and 2 mi. to the woods. Never had plates on it. Did the same with a '60 something Chrysler. A county cop met me at the road after deer hunting one night. He just stared open-mouthed at the car and said to get that pile of chit off the road.
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  • 9 on the floor9 on the floor Member Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You need to be more specific.

    People drive Chevys all the time.

    [}:)]
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  • woodhogwoodhog Member Posts: 13,115 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think it all goes back to the personal responsibility thing. Driving and operating a motor vehicle on public maintaind roads is a privledge not a right, if you abuse or endanger others you should be removed.Most states have minimum standards but LEOs may not always be vigilant to these
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,124 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In the 60's and 70's my Father drove old cars a lot of miles on his rural mail route. He'd buy a $50 car and turn it over to me to make it safe and reliable for the least amount possible. That experience helped me operate through some pretty tough times. If the motor runs w/o too much trouble, the brakes work every time, and the lights work when needed, the vehicle is useable. I've had farm pickups that looked pretty tough but when you turned the key, you found that the motor was perfect and the drivetrain was good to handle the static. The fenders might have been rusted out and the seat had a hole in it but you'd better hold on when you mashed the go pedal.
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  • minitruck83minitruck83 Member Posts: 5,369
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by perry shooter
    That is why I actually like the inspection law in Virginia. gets crap like that off the road. IMHO no different then being on the road with a drunk driver is to have someone with a unsafe car.


    Dunno bout VA, but WV always had a black market in inspection stickers. If the lights, and brakes worked, there was always an 'easy' station or if that failed... somebody with a $30 sticker in their billfold. Getting caught meant you claimed the problem developed after the inspection.
    In fact a few years ago a longtime statehouse employee was caught with a couple thousand of them in her handbag.
    I'd lay odds that any state with 'safety inspections' has the same.
    You aren't as safe as you think.


    Allen
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  • KEVD18KEVD18 Member Posts: 15,037
    edited November -1
    theres unsafe and unseemly. ive seen cars that looked like they were on their third revival from the junkyard, but the motor worked, the brakes worked, and there was a reasonable assurance parts werent going to fall off.

    mass has an inspection law and until a few years ago you could buy a sticker for a failing vehicle for $50(29 is the normal fee). back a few years they put bar codes on the stickers that are traceable back to not only the shop that did the sticker, but the inspector too. and they put the plate number of the vehicle on the sticker. so now its real tough to get a phony sticker. you cant still get an inspector to overlook something thats only inspected visually(lights, seat belts etc), but the emissions is done on the computer and theres no way to skirt that one.
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  • reloader44magreloader44mag Member Posts: 18,783 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "speed tape" anyone know about it?
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  • coltpaxcoltpax Member Posts: 7,516 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 9 on the floor
    You need to be more specific.

    People drive Chevys all the time.

    [}:)]


    Ahahaha and Dodges (stir stir)[:D]
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  • Joe DreesJoe Drees Member Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had a VW Rabbit with plywood floors, left front brake rotor missing, engine would die in tight turns, leaking gas tank, rust everywhere. Drove it from Wisconsin to Bremerton Wa and had it three years. I rode motorcycle most of the time so a cruddy car for a few months a year didn't bother me. Sold it for $100.00 to a fellow squid and bought a VW Thing (Coolest car I ever owned).
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  • PearywPearyw Member Posts: 3,699
    edited November -1
    Remember LF, we are in Alabama. No inspections, plenty of Mexicans,and be careful. We didn't start requiring titles on cars till the mid 1970s.
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  • footlongfootlong Member Posts: 8,009
    edited November -1
    We are talking about Alabama here. The state has just 2 paved roads.

    I-10 I-20

    Where duct tape is the state FLOWER


    [:D]
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  • tomahawktomahawk Member Posts: 11,826
    edited November -1
    as long is it dont have flat tires...... lol[;)]
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  • LesWVaLesWVa Member Posts: 10,490 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by select-fire
    for the umpteenth time. I have an enclosed trailer . They go IN the trailer not ON the trailer. geesh. BTW.. They only still have 14 mile on em'[:D]


    Dont blame you at all for wanting to hide them from public.

    I would be ashamed to be seen with a Obama Motors Camaro too.
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