Re: brake light

[s1wood@ibm.net]

Also a vent, I recently had the CQ inspected here in NC.  It failed.  Why? 
Well, a couple of the lights in the third brake light were burnt out (?!?) 
For crying out loud!  The brake light worked fine, over 80% lit up, and
there was no mistaking it was on even in the middle of the day.  I guess I
just don't understand how some of the junk on the roads get passed and I
fail for a couple of lights.  From the third brake light no less!  Makes me
wonder...

Scott Wood
90 CQ
Charlotte, NC

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> From: Dennis Ruffing <dennisr@altia.com>
> To: rdodd@bellatlantic.net
> Cc: quattro@coimbra.ans.net; ruffingf@aol.com
> Subject: brake light
> Date: Tuesday, August 25, 1998 6:30 PM
> 
> 
> Are you serious?  What's wrong with these people?  Have they no soul? 
> What would they think if they discovered I had unhooked the door
> chimer?   I'd probably be in jail.  Heretic!!  
> 
> First, I'd go back to the inspection person (or nimrod, as is usually
> the case) and explain all you've done to check the problem.  Demonstrate
> that the light is operated by a switch on the handle, and that though
> the wiring may be faulty, the operation of the praking brake is not. 
> It's a *parking-brake* *indicator*  *light*, fer-cryin'-out-loud!  Ask
> them if they drive 55mph on the highway.  
> 
> If this were all that was wrong with my 88 90, I'd be thrilled to death!
> 
> Failing that, I'd take it to another inspection station, but not without
> parting the first one with a big ol' "You have got to be sh%^&&#ing me"
> to make them feel bad.
> 
> Growing up in NH, I was once failed for a wiper blade being sub-par. 
> How the inspector determined this was beyond me.  He was, oddly enough, 
> happy to sell me a new one. I said "no thanks", walked across the lot to
> K-mart, plunked down $1.79 and walked back.  He wasn't too happy.
> 
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