AUTO INSPECTION ABUSE

The pet project of this site is to lobby for the elimination of the car-damaging procedures utilized in "IM 240" Auto Inspections, which the EPA has coerced many states into using under threat of withholding federal highway funds. If you have experienced damage to your vehicle as a result of the criminally abusive IM 240 Auto Inspection, give us your input and let's see if we can put the screws to these jerks.

The IM 240 "Dynamometer" inspection procedure involves violent accelleration and repeated kick-pounding of the brakes. Nearly everyone I know who has had this inspection has incurred damage to their vehicle. All kinds of engine and transmission damage, busted brake cylinders & lines, requiring repairs costing hundreds and even thousands of dollars . . . and yet without any effect on the pollution level.

The EPA has openly stated that it is doing this to "get old cars off the road." This is as criminal as hiring gangs to go out with sledgehammers to smash every car they see that's over 5 years old. The government has no right to damage our cars. I've worked way too hard reparing and maintaining my car to allow this to continue unchecked. Too many states already extort money for the "compulsory insurance" boondoggle; They charge sales tax on the inflated "book value" of a car, even when we purchace it from an individual at half that price! (Does a store charge sales tax on the full price of an item when it's on sale?)

It's bad enough that the state is stealing money from car owners. I've almost gotten used to that! But when they start savagely beating my car that I've gingerly maintained and strenuously labored on in all kinds of weather, they're walking on the fightin' side of me.

DON'T BE MISLED: This has nothing to do with "pollution." It has nothing to do with, "Won't somebody PLEASE think of the CHILDREN?!" These phrases too often let us get sidetracked by emotional hysteria while the government just steals more money or helps itself to the abuse of our property.

This group is an effort to lobby for the elimination of this horribly destructive, expensive, and wholly unjustifiable IM 240 "dynamometer" test . . . and replace it with the standard non-abusive car inspection procedures used in several other states. This is the first stage: register your opinion! Let's get some numbers behind us. then we can petition for change, and apply other forms of political prssure until this abuse of our property is finally put to an end.


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