Which is all perfectly legal.
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Which is all perfectly legal.
If they are my CDs...
eeek, my computer can do that. I'd best ask the government to make it illegal for me to change a light bulb in my house.
That makes perfect sense, the land of the free. Carry all the guns you want to, but think about touching your cars electrical system and Guantanamo awaits.
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Car makers have agreed a phase over to 12/48V electrical systems, the 48v cables will be in orange sheaths. As 50v DC is considered lethal, they will probably use that as an excuse to ban DIY work at some point.
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It is inevitable.
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Why is this an issue? If you want a faster car, buy a better one.
The barry boys who tart up their "beemers" with hilarious exhausts that make an unsophisticated racket, belching thick black smoke because they've fiddled with the engine and suspension that leaves their wheel arches scraping their tyres are a danger on the road and shouldn't really be allowed.
There should certainly be more control over what people can do to their vehicles. Obviously impossible to regulate on the whole but should certainly be discouraged.
The barry boys who tart up their "beemers" with hilarious exhausts that make an unsophisticated racket, belching thick black smoke because they've fiddled with the engine and suspension that leaves their wheel arches scraping their tyres are a danger on the road and shouldn't really be allowed.
There should certainly be more control over what people can do to their vehicles. Obviously impossible to regulate on the whole but should certainly be discouraged.
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Even if this does happen (which I doubt it will) it won't stop it happening. Besides, even now if you have a friendly MOTer they will overlook some things on your car (as long as it is road worthy and not dangerous) , it won't be any different in the future.
But how does say retrofitting parking sensors, or adding the onboard trip computer button harm anyone?
I can understand potentially problematic or dangerous modifications, but blanket blocking any "electronic" tampering is a bit pathetic.
For low level modifications it makes financial sense though. Remaps being the main one, for the price of a decent remap for my octavia (say from shark performance) for £400, I couldn't really upgrade to a significantly better/faster car without going much older/higher miles etc. Also the entire tuning scene would be ruined if you started clamping down on exhausts etc. Personally I like to go to trax and see ridiculous 800bhp skylines etc, if they were all standard then shows like that would be pretty boring. Oh look a huge line of OE spec cars which are all exactly the same, how thrilling.