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HaRuMaN:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 20, 2008, 12:12:30 pm ---
Didn't know that.  I've had friends come up from VA and go "holy CRAP wtf is with the salt on everything". 

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I can see that if they came from the East Coast.  I grew up in Norfolk, hardly saw any snow.

RetroACTIVE:
Here in MD they call it "salt"... but its not the stuff we had in NH which was just plain NaCl mixed with sand!  Here its kind of a funny black pebbly compound...supposed to last longer... :dunno

knave:
When I mention an older car, I'm not talking about a Junker.  Buying any used car is a crapshoot since you don't know how well it was maintained.

In 1994 I bought an '88 Jeep Comanche small pickup.  I practically "stole" it from a used car auction.  I knew nothing about it other than it was 6 years old and had 115K miles on it. Turns out I was super lucky.  The truck is awesome (I still have it).

It didn't have any issues that I didn't directly cause for 10 years until I bought another car and it sat for 3 years.  I've since realised that I neglected it and felt guilty. I thought long and hard about putting any money into a truck that now was worth $500-$1000 and decided to go for it.  Most of it's issues were caused my my own inexperience.

I decided to keep it for many reasons but mostly because after 14 years I'm pretty nostalgic about it.  Now that I'm much more knowledgeable it's second life will likely outlast me. At 189,000 miles I swapped cores on the engine. It cost me $1000 and the new core is 4 years newer.  Runs great.  I trust it to be turn key reliable as long as I maintain it.

In CA, passing Smog could be a concern.  I find it a pain every 2 years to go through the hassle but I'd rather do that than do more damage to the environment. New cars get what like 5 years w/o having to pass emissions?

paigeoliver:
Emissions laws are different from state to state and from one part of a state to another.

However one trend catching on is that of pre-96 cars being pre-emissions. That is when the fancier OBD-II crap went on all the cars that lets them just plug in and check the emissions. Pre-96 cars are uncommon enough now where it doesn't make a lot of financial sense to even bother testing that ever shrinking minority of pre-96 cars.

Of course the emissions laws are just a sham anyway, dropping the entire problem of particulate emissions on the family car is ludicrous, and they don't work because the laws vary wildly from one area to another meaning that failing cars often just MOVE from one place to another.

I do support initial installation of basic emissions control equipment, however the continual inspection of said equipment isn't the best idea and in many areas is basically just another anti-poor law.

AtomSmasher:
In most of California vehicles from 1975 and older no longer have to be smogged, which was great news for me because the last time I smogged my 1974 truck it took knowing the guy that ran the smogging equipment and a 6-pack of beer to get him to look the other way on a few things.  I remember some of the smog equipment was actually held on with bailing wire just so that it kind of looked like it was installed  ;D

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