Hi ROy,
On Tue 2011-Nov-01 15:19, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Richard Webb:
Roy>> I used to pass a $20 to the smog check guy in California to do
Roy>> that. Eventually the state got smart and tied the smog check
Roy>> machine to a main frame in Sacramento. No more cheating...
RW> YEah but remember this is Louisiana . That costs money!
Roy> LOL! Not as much as it would cost in California. 8^)
RIght but they're adverse to spending that money.
RW>> Louisiana is quite strict with theirs in fact, a hairline
RW>> crack in a windshield or lots of other little issues and you won't
RW>> pass.
Roy>> You can pass here with a cracked windshield, if it isn't a crack
Roy>> that's traveling.
RW> YEah that's when I get concerned about 'em too, otherwise,
RW> it's where they are I worry about. IF they don't obstruct
RW> sight lines, let well enough alone.
Roy> I was sitting at a traffic light in Santee, CA when something hit
Roy> the windshield of my 88 Camaro. It left a big dinger that could have
Roy> been fixed, had I not driven the car any further. As I drove it
Roy> toward the coast to home, that dinger began a crack that went all
Roy> the way across the windshield, before I got home 20 minutes later. I
Roy> hate it when that happens.
YEp, had that happen to one in IOWa that way.
RW>> Xyl and I had a FOrd Aerostar that the driver's side door
RW>> couldn't be opened from the inside, you had to crank down the window
RW>> and open the stupid thing from the outside,
Roy>> Those particular vehicles seem to have lots of problems like that.
Roy>> I got a call one time to unlock an Aerostar and I couldn't do it
Roy>> without using an airbag and a reach tool. Normally it's a wedge the
Roy>> window and slip a tool in the door to unlock too. That and the
Roy>> steering column ignitions never work right.
RW> YEah I had our steering column ignition replaced in that
RW> one.
Roy> Gonna have to do that in my pickup soon. It's to the point that I
Roy> can no longer use the accessory position because it just won't turn
OURs you could turn it to start it without even having the
key in the ignition, natch I didn't care for that.
RW> NEver tried the slim jim bit, never needed to.
Roy> Slim Jims don't work on modern (80s and newer) cars. If you look at
Roy> a slim jim's flatness and can picture in your mind that the rods
Roy> that lock and unlock a car door slide back and forth (left to right
Roy> and back), you'd understand why. Besides, most locking mechanisms
Roy> have a cover over them so that slim jims won't work...
YEp, learned that one from a friend of mine.
RW>> guy wouldn't pass us until I went and got the parts, took the stupid
RW>> door apart and repaired it. IT stopped in the required distance at
RW>> the required speed, lights and horn worked, tires were good, but he
RW>> wouldn't pass us without the ability to open that door from the
RW>> inside.
Roy>> In case you needed to make a hastey exit.
RW> Yup, could understand that I guess. I just kept avoiding it because
RW> it was such a pita to take the door apart to get to it.
Just a pain because we had no driveway, lived in a townhouse on a one-way
street. I bit the bullet after he wouldn't
pass us though.
RW>> IN fact, getting its windshield to pass that year entailed a bit of
RW>> a fight with one of those "we fix your windshield on the spot"
RW>> services.
RW>> because as I've been lead to understand those fixes
RW>> don't cure properly at low temps. HE assures me we're in good
RW>> shape, but then puts in a new windshield as that crack's growing too
RW>> much.
RW>> I think I've seen this one.
RW> YEp, and I might be wrong on the temp, but it was somewhere
RW> real close to the no go mark for temp iirc.
Roy> I find this interesting, as I have a resin repair kit in the garage.
Roy> It doesn't mention low temps, but it does say that you should park
Roy> the vehicle in the shade for a while before attempting a repair.
Roy> Once you've done the repair, they say to park it in the sun to let
Roy> it help to cure the repair resin. I had a chip in the windshield of
Roy> my Rodeo a few years ago and repaired it with a similar repair kit.
Roy> When I was done you couldn't even see what was left of the chip
Roy> unless you knew where to look.
YEp, friend of mine back in the midwest who did repairs and
replacements would only do them if temps were above a
certain point, or you brought it to his shop. Said
otherwise things didn't set up properly or something. I'm
thinking it has to do more with the pliability and
workability of the material.
Roy> I don't think so. Resin creates heat while it's curing.
YEah it does, but to work it, hmmm, I see him again when I'm back in the
midwest I'll have to ask him about this. YOu're right though, a lot of that
stuff, resins and this mix two
parts together to get the product, they're all usually big
heat generators, in fact often there are warnings on the
packaging of that stuff about it .
RW> HE was the cheapest estimate, understood
RW> why, but I made him do it right. Was telling a lawyer lady
RW> I served with on church board I was gonna run that full page add in
RW> the newspaper if he didn't. She told me that if I could prove my
RW> case go for it, because if I couldn't he might sue. I told her I had
RW> no problem, he didn't fix it I'd have taken the judge for a ride
RW> through a car wash or something .
Roy> 8^) With no prior warning about how bad it leaks, of course.
YOu got that right!!! WOuld've been a rotfl moment when the judge in his
soggy suit told the guy he didn't have a libel
case against me . I told my xyl to explain this to him
if he seemed reluctant to do the work properly. I think she did .
Regards,
Richard
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