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Try Safety Insurance too. Friend of mine in Chelmsford insures his 5 ton military cargo truck with them. No garaging requirement, etc etc etc. They are probably who I will go with for all special interest/antique vehicles in the future, assuming they don't quote me the "we don't want your business" price because of my mile long driving record full of inspection sticker violations.
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No such thing as a free lunch, if you want social services and poo poo, someone's gotta pay for em... bend over. They usually end up getting 50-75 bucks out of me for each vehicle I own even though the excise tax is like 25-35, because I'm awful at adulting and don't remember to pay up until they've sent me a warning, a warrant to collect my taxes, and then added a couple penalties to it. Oh well, my fault 
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kimbo305 posted:Overall, the car sounds like it should have all along -- rumbly and bassy on the low end, with fascinating harmonics in the middle, and the same scream at the top end. I kept wondering as I drove it, why would Ferrari bottle this up from the factory? Probably legal reasons. Strangely, Ohio has the most restrictive exhaust volume statutes.
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kimbo305 posted:Yeah, I'm not looking forward to some buyer asking me if I used OEM lid struts to replace the dead ones or if I used THE FORD FOCUS?! ones. All I'm looking at is that CF button pod and holy gently caress I'd hate to have to lay that up. That HAS to be a one-time-use male molded part, unless I'm not seeing the clamshell joint. Also, I had no idea Right to Repair was going to get us dealer software / tools etc. I wonder if the OEMs will throw a tantrum and just put in unlock codes to use the actual dealer stuff, then claim they complied with the letter of the law or something.
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kimbo305 posted:I've not seen these round plugs before: cursedshitbox posted:E: one is a weatherpak (ugh) and the other two are bullet connectors (double ugh). old britshit uses them. they're always making GBS threads up. sharkytm posted:Weatherpak's aren't THAT awful, certainly better than what was used in the 80's and early 90's. Those bullets are terrible, and prone to leaking water badly. The yellow insulated, non-sealed crimps need to go. I'll be that someone broke a socket or two, and bought used ones with short wires attached, then used the crimps to connect them to the factory wiring. Bleh. Weatherpaks were actually introduced in the 80s. They're the least awful 80s connector I've seen on a domestic vehicle, but not that great for a variety of reasons which I can sperg about at great length. Metripack sealed connectors on the other hand are really quite nice, the only connectors I like more than them for automotive engine bay purposes are Delphi Apex 2.8mm, Molex MX150/MX150L, and Deutsch offerings, which are expensive as hell. Metripacks are a great compromise between cost and performance. Those godawful bullet connectors... yeah... gently caress those. Every company has their own slightly different, completely incompatible, low contact pressure, water-hogging, corroded, hosed up, awful, shitpile version. e: I say domestic vehicle because Delphi is actually the remnants of the Packard (yes, that Packard, the one that made cars 50 years ago) Electric Division. Some still-in-production Delphi connectors, including many of the Type 56 series (AWFUL poo poo, only use these where needed to interface to original parts on an old car) have datasheets that were originally released in the mid 50s based off engineer signatures/dates, and are still produced off that design. If you see a "P E D" makers mark molded into a plastic connector housing in a car, best bet is that it's a Delphi connector, because P E D stands for Packard Electric Division. kastein fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Jan 4, 2016 |
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Oh wow, an idiot hosed up a car. Huh.
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Wow! That was some pretty intense bidding at the end. Did I see you on i95 north in the Charger this morning? If you saw a ragged silver Forester go past you on the left at the speed of light, that was me 
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I'm pretty sure the car you're looking for is a Local Motors rallyfighter. They are designed to be abused, uncommon, and cool as all hell. IIRC you get to help build yours, too, as part of the kit-car certification. e: you know this is ideal for Boston traffic 
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uhhhh... I do believe that's what a snorkel is for? It looks like they put an uncovered cone air filter on that thing, which is fine unless you intend to take your rally car/trophy truck mud bogging.
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kimbo305 posted:Mass has the same pre/post OBD rule. It used to do the sniffer test for OBD cars, too, but they stopped at some point in the last few years. Pre-OBD cars just get an exhaust safety inspection. Not quite. If the model year is over 15 years old, mass doesn't give a rats rear end about the CEL, just safety and exhaust leaks. Example: last summer (end of July 2016) I bought my latest shitbox forester, a 2001, registered it and passed inspection with the CEL on for P0420, P0443, and a few others. Lights Windshield Seat belts Horn No rust holes No exhaust leaks Tread depth Suspension safety (balljoints etc) Brakes Tint Airbag light Washers Wipers Parking brake No fuel leaks Boom you just passed mass inspection as long as your car is >15 on the title. ABS warning lamp can even be on. If you need more info or to bounce ideas off me, let me know. I nearly lost my license because of inspection tickets in 2014 and as a result I now know way way too much about inspection laws... and where to take my shitboxes for inspection. Seminal Flu posted:A long time ago I had an Audi coupe quattro. It was black and needed tinted windows to look proper, especially since the interior was puke tan. During that time, the local constabulary had a hard on for ticketing tinted windows. After paying for a couple tickets, I got tired of the hassle. Do you want a tax evasion lawsuit? This is how you get one. All it takes is one cop having a bad day and seeing you. If you wanted to do this, I would recommend a nearby state that you never drive in with lax inspection laws. For instance maine. They don't pull your tags for failure to inspect, and no mass cop cares that your maine car is uninspected if you manage to get pulled over. In border towns like mine the out of state plates are suspicious, but probably not in Boston. But tags from way far away are still suspicious, especially if it is a state well known for lax auto laws like Florida, Montana, Alaska, etc E: if you want to be legal about it, buy a lovely hunting property in northern maine, register your crap there, and as long as you spend at least 6mo a year there or can claim you do with convincing proof, you are following the law. I am not sure what happens if you"live" in 3 states for 4mo each, either 
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Seminal Flu posted:Tax evasion lawsuit? Lol. Again, everything depends on states. There are no tax issues in either Ohio or Texas, the two states I was talking about. Even if there were, it'd be impossible to prove, since I was just borrowing my mom's car. Yes, but Kimbo lives in the same state as me, and we love our tax money. Not to say I haven't considered doing exactly what people were talking about, but I know for a fact some towns here try to bust people for it.
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