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Safety's a thing of the past? Did you guys see this yesterday?

gertsch

gertsch

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Location
West Bountiful
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=19065227
if the bill goes through anything with a gvw less then 10000 ponds won't need a safety inspection!
If it happens get ready to register your machines people lets have some fun with it! Also the video is of my work and it was a story about emmissions testing not safety inspections, silly ksl.

As an inspector I believe in the need for a safety inspection. But I would be sad to see it go either I mean no one but cops being able to tell me I need to keep my fender fairs and my mudflaps. No more having to make sure everything on my jeep is perfectly legal when uhp comes for a visit to the shop and does a parking lot walk through that would be great!
 
gahi

gahi

Active Member
Location
Moab, UT
I'm all for this! I hate the frikkin inspections. Failed for a cracked cab marker light lense... tint thats too dark but passed the year before... mudflaps that dont hang low enough... I feel like its a huge waste of everyone's time. The few shops that do it around here all have a 2 wk waiting list, and I'm sure they'd rather be doing jobs that actually make some money.
 
thenag

thenag

Registered User
Location
Kearns
I have mixed feelings about safety inspection, I do my own maintenance and it is nice to have someone look at it every year. In the past few years they have caught a number of things that did need to be repaired. At some point they would have become obvious. (tie rod ends come to mind) But I have had a car fail for a non-dripping power steering leak. (the book says a "non dripping leak is ok" There was not a drop on my garage floor so it was not dripping) The rack and pinion did have excessive play (which is what they should have failed it for) and the new rack and pinion did make a huge difference.

I didn't realize that the state only got a couple of bucks off each inspection, that is going to hurt the shops more than anyone.

If it goes through I wonder if any shops will offer a "safety inspection" with emissions for a few bucks more.

nathan
99 xj it's barley legal...
 
airmanwilliams

airmanwilliams

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Location
Provo, Utah
Im all for doing away with it. Im always not passing for a stupid cracked marker light lens or something like that and having to pay the fee all over again.
 
Herzog

Herzog

somewhat damaged
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Location
Wydaho
Just because the inspection would go away doesn't mean that the safety laws would. The enforcement would likely still be there and probably be ramped up. I'm pretty sure you'd still get ticketed by the UHP for stupid little things.

Some people have also made the comment that many people have safety issues for most of the year anyways because they wait last minute (inspection time) to fix it. I've done this with cracked windows. Why replace it promptly when there's a chance it will get cracked again before inspection because of all the road work?
 
sixstringsteve

sixstringsteve

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Location
UT
I vote to get rid of it. If people still want to make sure their car is safe, they can take it to a mechanic and pay them to verify. Or maybe a comprimise where they ease up on the safety regulations and come up with something that checks steering, brakes, and minor things like that. Not tail lenses.
 
hedonist

hedonist

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Do away with it! I'm sure if you are concerned about the safety of your rig, your mechanic would take a quick look for the 25 bucks. It just wouldn't keep you for getting tags if he found something. That being said, the Gov. will get their money 1 way or the other. Don't expect to save any dough:(
 
gertsch

gertsch

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Location
West Bountiful
My concern for people is most places charge 75 bucks just to look at your car and diagnose stuff. Where the safety is only 17 dollars and as long as you go to a decent shop that does there job right that's not a bad price. As an inspector there's lots of things in the manual I don't agree with. Such as tint over a center brake light or marker lights not working you know stupid simple crap. The things I do like about inspections is brake purposes. The large number of brake pads I've seen worn unevenly or tapered to where the backing is metal on metal and people have no idea.
 
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Raleigh

Raleigh

OMF Dave
Location
VIVA LAS VEGAS
The biggest thing for me if it does pass is my heim steering, I got the guy to pass it last year, but he is an avid wheeler and knows they are strong.
I am not too worried about but it would be nice not to worry at all!
 
Venture13

Venture13

Active Member
Location
Layton
Ha ha, more police on the roads, more pensions and salaries to support rather than a safety inspection. I see plenty of highway vehicles out there and sometimes observe as many as 5 cop cars to pull one person over. Fancy new vehicles they get to drive on the tax payer's dime. The under cover car thing is almost effective as the traffic cameras, fun police for sure.. As for the inspections, well it does add some jobs to the local shops and gives that idiot proof standard for basic things like lights and brakes. I doubt it will go away, sounds like an excuse to find more funding to hire extra police. The police and fire departments are getting way to big, I think the property taxes went up just to support the salaries of SLC police. Gotta love our country and all the not so free services we indirectly pay for..
 
Herzog

Herzog

somewhat damaged
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Location
Wydaho
They also tried billing people extra money in unincorporated areas of the valley because they can't balance their own damn checkbooks and overspend. Luckily that only lasted a couple years.
 
cruiseroutfit

cruiseroutfit

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Sandy, Ut
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gertsch

gertsch

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Location
West Bountiful
A customer came in for a reinspect today and thanked me for catching her front brake rotors were out of specs and her front pads where shot. Her mechanic missed it she said and was glad I caught it. So I guess it helps to have inspectors doing there job correctly.
 
T

Toad

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Location
Millville(logan)
I am an inspector also. There is a lot of gray areas in that book that are open for interpretation. Yes some of the things in the SI are stupid. That being said a lot of people dont have a clue about the cars that they drive. They wait until the car breaks down or they get rejected during a SI. So for these people the SI is needed. Unfortunately cars bring out the worst in people. Nobody is excited to take the car to the shop. If I had a dollar for everybody that has given me a sob story or been pissed with me for their tires being trashed or whatever the issue is I would be doing good.
 
DevinB

DevinB

I like traffic lights
Location
Down Or'm
They should change the inspection process to monitor big ticket items like brakes and steering, things that actually make cars safer, and get rid of all the nitpicky crap like mudflaps and fender flares. I got pulled over in my wrangler for not having side view mirrors. I think not having mirrors has actually made me safer because it forces me to turn and check my blind spots. How many people just check their mirrors and make a lane change without checking their blind spot? Idiots change lanes into me all the time for that reason.
 
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