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jkjeeper06 t1_j1w15p3 wrote

You do not need new fenders for your car, but you do need them patched. On fenders you can do a bondo job or whatever you want but it has to be smooth. The reasoning is pedestrian safety(for fenders). If you hit someone, those sharp holes can do a lot of extra damage

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czo79 t1_j1w2pfv wrote

I thought Bondo was out now and it has to be metal?

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jkjeeper06 t1_j1w2y3x wrote

You are right. Once you fail, bondo is out. If you bondo before and hit it with a mediocre paint job, it will pass.

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Otto-Korrect t1_j1wefia wrote

I passed once with duct tape and spray paint. Ahh, the good old days.

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thisoneisnotasbad t1_j1w852e wrote

Really? That sucks. I’ve always used fiberglass and had good luck. Didn’t realize bondo was not acceptable anymore.

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jkjeeper06 t1_j1w8k0z wrote

Just fix it with bondo before you fail. Sand it smooth and hit it with some paint and you shouldnt have an issue passing

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cpujockey t1_j1z373e wrote

less than $50 dollar sunday afternoon activity. You can even drink while you do it.

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zkentvt t1_j1z4g4i wrote

I have kids. An entire afternoon dedicated to any, one task sounds like a Vacation.

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cpujockey t1_j1z5y6t wrote

As do I. I still do stuff. I got 4 kiddos in our household.

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jkjeeper06 t1_j1zou95 wrote

Unfortunately, the cost of not doing it is so high now with inspection failures. rust repair is never cheap and most of the time you only want to buy another year or 2 on the vehicle, not restore it so it lasts 15 more years

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zkentvt t1_j1zs6ih wrote

I miss the days of driving a car into the ground.

I personally don't think the government should be telling me what I can drive. If they want us to maintain our cars better, they should use more carrots and less sticks.

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jkjeeper06 t1_j1zt89l wrote

I think there is a happy medium. One trip to michigan would show you what it could be like to allow people to do this in a state that has roadsalt. You'll see truck bedsides flapping in the wind as you go down the road. Cracked frames on vehicles, broken windshields, non-functional lights, etc.

For me the happy medium is allowing more budget friendly fixes on non-structutal/safety related components. Rusted cab corners on a truck is not a big deal, just let the owner bondo it and it will hold for a few years.

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vtinpgh t1_j1wjx68 wrote

Could it be that tin tape with some paint over it?

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Karness_Muur t1_j1y2hur wrote

I hit mine with bondo after and it went by no problem

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Plenty-Jaguar2581 t1_j1wlpqg wrote

But there is only 600,000 people i the whole state.. where exactly are these pedestrian obstacle courses? Lol

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jkjeeper06 t1_j1wmvsl wrote

Few and far between. I didn't say the regulation made sense given the rural nature, but thats the end goal of it

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bond___vagabond t1_j1z6fhc wrote

It's for the cows. The city folk that make the rules don't realize yer average cow will just about push over a barbwire fence, just to scratch those hard to reach places, so they are worried about fender holes cheese grating some poor cow in an automobile accident/s

All joking aside, I've been a mechanic in rural Oregon and Vermont for over 20 years. I'm not into hotrods, rolling coal, or any of that idiocy, I believe in climate change, I've built street legal electric vehicles from scratch, owned approximately 20 geo metros, lol, and bike commuted 14 miles to an auto repair job for years. Rural poor people need cars, in our current society. x100 in a "cool" rural place like vermont. They gotta be way over here where they randomly found some janky old house they can afford to rent. They gotta drive way over there to the job where the boss is slightly less exploitative of their desperation. We need to punch up, as a society, not down. Several recent studies show our "carbon footprint" is directly tied to how much we spend, it's like Elon musk being all "we need everyone to use electric cars", then bopping all over in his private jet. We are all out of time on climate change, we need our climate change mitigation to be numbers driven, not just make us feel good, because of classist propaganda we vaguely remember from our childhoods. If you are mad about climate change, punch up, not down.

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