Polishing my headlights FAQ

The trade off with modern lighting is that to get brighter lighting with the smaller reflectors used they run the bulbs at a higher voltage than they used to. So an older sealed beam may have been tagged as a 12 volt. but the filament was set up to run at 14 or higher. So the sealed beams tended to last a while, unless they were the cheap ones and in poor mountings.

Nope, fog lights are not required lighting. They can stop you for headlights, tail brake (although technically the laws state you need two rear facing brake lights so if the CHMSL is working they cannot give you a ticket for one out UNLESS it is also the turn lamp) And these days for not having them on in the rain.

Florida did away with the car testing under Bob Graham, a Democrat, in

On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 13:51:18 -0500, micky posted for all of us to digest...

It's called a Fixit Ticket. They have these in PA and like Ed mentioned an annual inspection w/smog only for certain counties. Find a good shop.

Even after OBD was invented, there were a lot of cars not set up for it. That number goes down every year.

That's the emission test.

Maryland has long had a separate safety check, although it's only when a car is sold. If you never sell you car, and a cop never notices how bad it is, it could be falling apart.

Pa. used to have safety checks twice a year, but they changed to once.

Required testing started because a lot of people were driving wrecks and causing accidents. I don't have x-ray eyes but the number of cars with visible body damage has gone down in the past decades, and I think so have safety failings. But it's going to take an effort by someone to change the testing requirements in any state.

A different situation: I'd bought an old Dodge pickup where someone with big truck envy had installed clearance lights on the cab. According to New Hampshire law while they certainly weren't required if they were there they had to work.

So, remove them. Caulk the holes with RTV silicon.

Yes, you remind me that the law never required emissions testing everywhere, only in places with high measured air pollution, with the kind of pollution caused by cars.

In Maryland this is only Baltimore City and Baltimore County, and the suburbs of DC, Montgomery, Anne Arundel, and Prince George counties, and surpringly to me, Frederick County. That's still less than half the state and I think in every other state it's less, much less, or much much less.

And I don't have to do it anymore because I'm over some age and drive less than some amount. I do have to tell them every 2? years how little I drive.

Yep. Read my other post. You act like there is one law for the whole country, and that you know what that law is. You're wrong on the first and I doubt you're right about any state.

Since they were added after manufacture, that would probably work, but you never know and I'd check first. And actually it's easier to replace a burned out bulb or two than to remove them.

I changed my address to Chuck County to dodge the PG testing before I could just get out of Maryland completely.

Don't see that in the V&T laws for passenger vehicles. I know for commercial vehicles that is the case though and many states have pick-ups tagged as commercial vehicles so for a pickup truck it would likely apply under the CMV laws.

In Kalifornia you don't have to register your pickup as a commercial vehicle unless you plan to actually carry something in the bed. Really cheesy. Just like our liability insurance -- which goes with the car rather than the driver. If you have 3 cars you have to have 3 liability policies although you can only drive one car at a time.

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Makes me want to vomit.

Most states started as having them commercial, then changed it when they started to become used more like cars than trucks. About that same time was when the double cabs with s 4 foot "bed" started showing up...

Not a surprise on the insurance, anything to fleece the sheep. NY hasn't gone that way yet.

I've got a truck, a car, and three motorcycles. I'm trying for a fleet discount. The truck and motorcycles don't cost much luckily.

This may help.

--scott

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Hi The Real Bev,

You do realize this entire thread is a troll, right? o

You know me. For decades.

This "micky" character has already ruined the home repair newsgroup. o Don't let "it" and it's many sock puppets ruin this one too.

You're real, so I just want to warn you, "micky" is not. o Almost all the responses in this thread are from his known puppets.

Sadly, he died in a bathing accident in Hawaii a decade ago, but his newsgroup lives on because it's nearly impossible to get rid of an alt. group.

He was a great pioneer in the art of internet trolling, and 4chan and the Russian troll farms would likely not exist today had he not shown the way. There should be a statue in his honor at the White House.

--scott