John,
Insurance will pay either way.
Many states, my current Washington state included, have no annual safety
inspection, only an emissions inspection every other year. In my eyes, an
annual or every other year safety inspection should be mandatory.
I've seen cars on the road in various places in the US that make me flat out
scared, with metal to metal brakes and flapping body panels. Most people are
pretty good about keeping up on repairs, but there is a portion of the
population that takes the term "driving the car into the ground" quite
literally.
Jack Brooks
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net]On
>Behalf Of John Kipping
>Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 11:29 AM
>To: Herald948@aol.com; fot@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: TR4/6 Master Cylinder
>
>
>Let me just check we have some facts right, here we have two people in the
>US on one yahoo group who have had rusted brake lines fail, and presumably
>you both know about car maintenance and what to do in an emergency. How many
>people are actually killed each year because you have no safety
>inspections? - I'm changing my mind about driving in the US again. Isn't
>your insurance invalid if the company can show you haven't maintained your
>vehicle?
>John Kipping
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <Herald948@aol.com>
>To: <fot@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 3:36 PM
>Subject: Re: TR4/6 Master Cylinder
>
>
>> In a message dated 2/15/03 8:01:31 AM Pacific Standard Time, BillDentin
>> writes:
>>
>> <<I agree with you! I, too, am not convinced it is safer. I had the
>brakes
>> fail on a 1980s Chevrolet 3/4 Ton Van, and it had a dual brake system. I
>had
>>
>> no brakes. My salvation was STANDING on the emergency brake pedal. >>
>>
>> In a message dated 2/15/2003 6:27:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> WEmery7451@aol.com writes:
>>
>> > ... I lost all
>> > brake with two different tow vehicles due to metal lines rusting through
>> > and
>> > failing. While using a 1971 Chrysler Newport, I towed home from the
>Penn
>> > Ohio Truck Stop to Pittsburgh after crimping shut the right rear wheel
>> > brake
>> > line to correct a leak.
>>
>> Reminds me of last spring. Saturday noontime, in the mid-central part of
>> Pennsylvania (ironically, near Mechanicsburg, as I recall), I blew out a
>> rusted metal rear brake line on my Explorer, with my clunky old trailer
>and a
>> Standard Pennant saloon in tow.
>>
>> Not only was it difficult to find a mechanic in Mechanicsburg, apparently
>> none of them actually works on a Saturday afternoon. Sigh....
>>
>> I gave up searching after about an hour, stocked up with several bottles
>of
>> STP's finest brake fluid, and managed to make it the last six hours home
>on
>> front brakes alone...planning my stops and slowdowns WELL AHEAD OF TIME.
>>
>> Dual circuit brakes do seem to have their place, but I would have to say
>it
>> wasn't outrageously better having only one of the two circuits than having
>> nothing at all.
>>
>> Oh, the "emergency" brake on the Explorer never was worth much of anything
>as
>> far as I was concerned....
>>
>> --Andy Mace
>>
>> "There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary,
>and
>> those who don't."
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