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Re: Foggy headlights

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puma guy wrote:I know I would be annoyed when I got charged for an adjustment.
Excuse me. That's MY prerogative. Get your own. :mrgreen:
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The Annoyed Man wrote:
puma guy wrote:I know I would be annoyed when I got charged for an adjustment.
Excuse me. That's MY prerogative. Get your own. :mrgreen:
Pardon moi mon ami I was perturbed, though.
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puma guy wrote:
The Annoyed Man wrote:
puma guy wrote:I know I would be annoyed when I got charged for an adjustment.
Excuse me. That's MY prerogative. Get your own. :mrgreen:
Pardon moi mon ami I was perturbed, though.
We need to change your screen name to The Perturbed Puma Guy :lol:
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Keith B wrote:
puma guy wrote:
The Annoyed Man wrote:
puma guy wrote:I know I would be annoyed when I got charged for an adjustment.
Excuse me. That's MY prerogative. Get your own. :mrgreen:
Pardon moi mon ami I was perturbed, though.
We need to change your screen name to The Perturbed Puma Guy :lol:
"rlol" But then I would be abbreviated PPG and that's a painter, not a panther.... Oh! Wait a minute painter is a colloquialism/synonym for puma. Gotta think about this a while!
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SwimFan85 wrote:
puma guy wrote:My suggestion to my Reps was to reinstate headlight inspection for alignment and brightness as we used to have. As it stands LEO's are supposed to watch out for inspection infractions, but they have enough to do and can't carry around photometric equipment. It doesn't take any equipment to see clear and smoked/blacked out tail lights.
They eliminated headlight aiming because of incompetence or fraud by the inspectors.

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/vi/Misc/fa ... em.htm#aim" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Each year almost 50% of the citizens were being charged for headlight aim testing as they received their vehicle inspection.
Through review of a substantial number of vehicles,
only 3% actually required headlight aim adjustment.
They have a new one now! My locking gas cap won't pass inspection. The guy has a supply of caps willing to sell! So I'm out an additional $11.50 plus tax, so I can leave and reinstall my locking cap. The gentleman the told me the old cap would have been releasing lots of vapors and I would see an increase in my gas mileage. He must think the vapor pressure of gasoline is something akin to butane.
I am, at least temporarily , Perturbed Puma Guy! :grumble
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One solution is to buy a car with real, tempered GLASS headlights, like a Volvo! (I know, I know, buying a Volvo is like voting for you-know-who, but the NRA window sticker on mine has got to confuse people).
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puma guy wrote:
SwimFan85 wrote:
puma guy wrote:My suggestion to my Reps was to reinstate headlight inspection for alignment and brightness as we used to have. As it stands LEO's are supposed to watch out for inspection infractions, but they have enough to do and can't carry around photometric equipment. It doesn't take any equipment to see clear and smoked/blacked out tail lights.
They eliminated headlight aiming because of incompetence or fraud by the inspectors.

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/vi/Misc/fa ... em.htm#aim" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Each year almost 50% of the citizens were being charged for headlight aim testing as they received their vehicle inspection.
Through review of a substantial number of vehicles,
only 3% actually required headlight aim adjustment.
They have a new one now! My locking gas cap won't pass inspection. The guy has a supply of caps willing to sell! So I'm out an additional $11.50 plus tax, so I can leave and reinstall my locking cap. The gentleman the told me the old cap would have been releasing lots of vapors and I would see an increase in my gas mileage. He must think the vapor pressure of gasoline is something akin to butane.
I am, at least temporarily , Perturbed Puma Guy! :grumble
Gas cap thing can be real - even though it sounds like a scam
Its related to the the newer cars with fuel injection - many cars these days will even throw a check engine light if your cap is defective or if you fail to put it back on correctly
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