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Skriven 2006-09-21 11:30:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JIM HOLSONBACK
Ärende: Re: Security
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-=> JIM HOLSONBACK wrote to ROSS CASELL <=-

 -=> On 09-19-06 22:10 WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to ROSS CASSELL <=-

 -=> ROSS CASSELL wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RC> Hello WAYNE!

 RC> 19 Sep 06 19:46, you wrote to me:

 WC>> I can imagine.
 WC>> Here in Florida there's a law new cars have to
 WC>> display the VIN number on the dash so it's visable
 WC>> through the front windshield.

 RC>> Every car I have ever owned has had the Vin number visible in
 RC>> this fashion.

 RC>> 1967 Ford Galaxie 500
 RC>> 1965 Ford Galaxie 500
 RC>> 1974 Ford Torino
 RC>> 1977 Ford Pinto
 RC>> 1976 Ford Ltd
 RC>> 1982 Ford Escort
 RC>> 1987 Hyundai Excel
 RC>> 1993 Mazda 323
 RC>> 2001 Ford Focus
 RC>> 2005 Nissan Sentra

 RC>> Not exactly a new law.

 WC> All I'm speaking to is what I read inn hte Saint Petersburg Times.
 WC> If they got it wrong why don't you take it up with them?

 JH> That's funny- - going to the paper's website,
 JH> http://www.sptimes.com/home.shtml  then using the "Search Archives"
 JH> function, which is supposed to be their archive for articles "from
 JH> 1/1/1987 to the present" and searching on the words "VIN windshield"
 JH> comes up with five hits.  One article from 2003 says it is posible for
 JH> a vehicle to be stolen by geting a dealer to make a key off the VIN,
 JH> but doesn't make a big deal of it, and none of those five articles says
 JH> anything about a law requiring the VIN to be on the dash being unique
 JH> to FL.


 JH> But I did find that it is a Federal requirement - - from the
 JH> Code of Federal Regulations - -    (Part 39 or 49, I forget which)

 JH> Page 163
 JH> Nat'l Highway Traffic Safety Admin., DOT
 JH> Para. 565.6
 JH> (f) The VIN for passenger cars, multi-purpose passenger vehicles and
 JH> trucks of 4536 kg or less GVWR shall be located inside the passenger
 JH> compartment. It shall be readable, without moving any part of the
 JH> vehicle, through the vehicle glazing under day-light lighting
 JH> conditions by an ob-server having 20/20 vision (Snellen) whose
 JH> eye-point is located outside the vehicle adjacent to the left
 JH> windshield pillar.

with our servicemen and women being maimed in killed in Iraq it
sure is comforting we have you two here pointing out the *really*
important issues of the day. 
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