No, I'm sick of you being an insulting know it **** on every subject that comes across this site, I honestly done know why they haven't ip banned you yet. I simply stated it would need an enhanced inspection and you go off on your rampage like normal. Typical BillG no one knows anything but BillG, because he's been there, done that and knows everything. I'm done with you.
You gotta laugh at all the stainless braided brake lines that are good for 1 year, not DOT rated and on cars 15 years later...... Every single one of the tards that installs them HATE mechanics and inspections!!!
Well Sean if an inspection sticker is not a tax then who gets the money from it? Vehicle license plates are also a tax. Vehicle title transfer fees are taxes. Any fee levied by a taxing body is a tax. I have no idea how much your plates cost in PA. Around about 2019 the Illinois Democrats were hurting for money to fund their pet projects. They instituted what was basically an across the board 100% increase in all vehicle fees. A plate that was $108 went to $216. A title transfer that was $65 was $130. Now do you think that magically the cost of stamping out license plate doubled over night? Hell no it did not it was a TAX increase. Up until about 1980 we used to have inspections on pickups. It was a joke and folks finally raised enough hell to get it abolished.
Bill, while you may be qualified to fix your vehicle I managed an Autopro in a body shop and saw the carnage caused by no maintenance. I WOULD GLADLY PAY THE TAX AND KEEP MY FAMILY SAFE.
Insurance would definitely be an issue. In the first post it shows what appears to be about a 1974/1977 Ford truck. If you were wreck it the insurance company would want to give you pennies even if you had $30,000 invested in it. Of course prior to insuring it you could have an appraisal done but I bet you will be hard pressed to find someone to appraise it. A proper appraisal requires comparables and those simply will not exist for awhile.
I have to drive up the road every night where my kid's classmate lost their dad at 4 years old. When I get to work I see cars wrapped up in plastic bags marked "bio hazard". That means someone died.
In Australia, Insurance is refusing to insure electric vehicles. Add that these are custom, you may need to pass a structural integrity inspection -that does not exist. Buyer beware.
Didn't even think about the insurance aspect of it. That can be a pain. When I swapped the 12v cummins in my 79, they were more of a pain then the state was. Had several meetings with an appraiser, show proof of costs, and the best was that the engine met or exceeded the model year of my 79.
that was arguably the easiest part.
Summarized quote from Edison:Didn't even think about the insurance aspect of it. That can be a pain. When I swapped the 12v cummins in my 79, they were more of a pain then the state was. Had several meetings with an appraiser, show proof of costs, and the best was that the engine met or exceeded the model year of my 79.
I have a couple examples of the ridiculous inspections here but they are too long to type on a phone.
There are more shops than one that can be patronized and the work can be done by anyone and re inspected. My current argument is a 2002 Crown Vic that has had rotted frame rails for 6 years.
I suspect it would depend on how you license it. For my S10 example if the vehicle is all electric with a generator as a drive motor the charging system is independent of the vehicle whether it be grid, solar or generator. I really would not want to invest into something only to have the government pass a law saying it's obsolete or can't be used. This used to be why we put modern engines in old cars!
What you will find is they will have load sensors and traction sensors that will go out of calibration rendering the vehicle useless with out a factory tech and satellite programming
