On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 23:12:07 -0400, Clare Snyder posted for all of us to digest...
If you visit U Tube and like automobiles go to the "Just Rolled In" channel. It shows you what a no inspection state is like.
Clare you should send the pix of your truck in! He's running a June competition for pix submitted. I don't know what you would win but your truck certainly qualifies.
There are other channels that show the carnage of poorly maintained vehicles.
In Maryland cars only have to be inspected when sold. Although if a cop notices a violation of the inspection rules, he can order it to get repaired. You get maybe 2 weeks to appear at a police station and show that indeed you've repaired it.
I'm not sure getting the shift lever right is even in the list when there is an inspection.
Plus I opened the hood (not easy) and coudln't shut it on one side. Turns out of of the hinge links was broken off and had moved into the way of the other. I put it where it shoudl be and used WD-40 and the hood worked fine after that. (another thing that woudln't get noticed by a cop, or listed in the inspection checklist)
The rear corners of the hood were bent. I can't imagine how that happened, and it may have been that way when he bought the car.
But he tells me he uses regular gasoline, and only uses ethyl when he pulls the horse trailer, especially when he goes uphill to the Catoctin Mountains.
He has another newer pickup too, but I woudln't want to borrow that. And a Lincoln Continental. And I think he still has the 65 Buick convertible. His wife, who can from an upper-middle-income family and who is an M.D. herself, said she knew when she married him that she'd never own another new car. And she doesn't.
He has and uses a John Deere tractor with a hydraulic bucket from the
1950's.Truck ran fine after limp-in mode was reset.
If it's a minor issue here you get a week or so - Major they pull the plates and call a tow truck - AND write you up.
Yes it is - at least here in Ontario
Hood latches and hinges ARE part of inspection, generally. Definitely are in Ontario.. Trucks are targetted by "blitzes" every year looking for unsafe trucks - commercial or not
The latch let go at speed anf the hood went up.
Trucks towing 2 axle trailers ALL require inspection twice a year here and the inspections are THOROUGH
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