Re: Fix-a-Flat Makes a Tire Un-patchable?



Steve <no@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in article
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scott21230@xxxxxxxxx wrote in article
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I am also thinking that they just didn't want to clean the inside of
the tire. Maybe it is a lot of extra work and maybe they would want
too much money for that or are just plain lazy (I have no idea).
Either way, patching a tire is very easy (witha plug) and you should
always just do it yourself.




In some states - Maine being one - a tire with an externally-inserted
plug
is reason to fail a vehicle in the annual state inspection program
(PMVI).

That's just crazy. Almost as crazy as states that have NO safety
inspection (California, for example). You can have no brakes, holes in
the floorboards, spring-mounts broken, and one headlamp, but if the
exhaust is clean enough, you can drive it in California. :-/




Show me a non-inspection state where the
accidents-caused-by-defective-equipment rate is higher than an inspection
state..............

They are few and far between.

There are only 18 states in the USA that currently have any sort of PMVI
program in place.

Does that mean that 32 states have significantly higher accident rates
attributable to faulty equipment?

Don't think so.................


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