Don't be parting out vehicles in California.

yupididit said:

I miss California :( 

Being back I the land of rust, snow, and humidity, I do too. Never, ever thought I would, but I do. 

At least all the places I lived didn't have nosey neighbors, the closest were at least a half mile away.

That law wouldn't effect me anymore then the Ohio law that prohibits selling more then 6 vehicles a year without a license. A law usually broken and avoided via title jumping which is already illegal. 

The0retical said:

yupididit said:

I miss California :( 

I've softened on it recently. When I was living there it seemed like a huge hassle since they seem to hate everything I like but since I left I've basically become apathetic towards cars and guns. I'm not a huge gun fetishist anyway and the second kid just makes me want a quiet couch with a warranty to drive.

I also never realized how much even just surface rust bothers me until I moved back to the northeast.

I didn't miss my guns while in California and don't even think about them now I'm in Texas. And none of the Cali laws ever hindered my car hobby. 

RevRico said:

yupididit said:

I miss California :( 

Being back I the land of rust, snow, and humidity, I do too. Never, ever thought I would, but I do. 

At least all the places I lived didn't have nosey neighbors, the closest were at least a half mile away.

I hope to never live in a land where it snows or rust ever again. 

In reply to FuzzWuzzy :

Making an activity illegal does not in and of itself make it easy to enforce said law, difficult to engage in said activity, nor can it omnisciently predict all of the ways in which said law/enforcement might be circumvented in the future...And if an additional law to address those common shortcomings is also of no material detriment to law abiding citizens, what exactly is the complaint?

Ok..... I understand the idea of the law so is the city going to buy a freon removal system they will bring over and suck the old freon out before I pull the motor ?

And since they are "helping" the environment can they save me a trip to AutoZone on take my old oil and filters away too ????

Since this is a 2 year old law that no one ever heard of , I think it's another law which they can throw at a shop they do not like.....

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There was a time when I knew every DMV worker by name and they me. Fact the State of Taxachusett sent me a used car dealer app.  Stupid me didn't fill it out at the time.

Kreb said:

Oh boy, here we go again. I know of zero effect that law has had on people who do what we do. But if it gives you another reason to hate California, I guess go for it. Your state sucks too because (check what applies: weather, lack of economic opportunity, low-lifes (insert ethic/social group here), insects, just plain boring, additional grievances to be named....)

Don't take it personally. It wasn't meant that way. 

The poster popped up on my FB feed and I thought it was interesting. Also relevant on here because there are quite a few members that dismantle vehicles for fun and profit. 

accordionfolder said:

Think with your thinkin' parts. They're fighting chop shops - if you dismantled 6 cars in a year, they're probably not going to track you down and eat you for lunch.

Right up until they do. (tinfoil hat)

California is like racing: if the rules don't specifically say you can do it, you can't do it.

Appleseed said:

Tell me again why I want to live in California? 

Every New Year’s Day I would watch the Rose Bowl parade as folks were there with light jackets or sweatshirts on when meanwhile in Chicago it was cold and usually snowy and I always thought I should move to Southern California. Now 45 years later I still question my sanity. 

My son just left Irvine after five years and might move back in two years when he is done in Boston.   

My plan is to live in the garage apartment and be like a live in gardener/handyman for him when he goes back allowing me ample Datsun 510 time every day.  

Interesting observation since the purpose of the Rose Parade and the reason they have it on January 1st is because it was originally created to promote Pasadena and get people to move there once they see how nice it is in Pasadena when most of the country is rather cold.

The only thing I have to add to the original topic is that I did learn that you cannot take a stripped car body to a recycling center (at least in CA), but.... if you cut it in half, it's just fine!  That is how I learned how easy it is to cut a car in half with a good sawzall.

Smells likes rent-seeking to me.  Lobby the govt to require expensive licensing in order to pursue a money-making venture that has an otherwise-low capital investment cost and it protects the large, existing businesses against small competitors.  Same thing as NY taxi medallians.

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Sorry, but this one always gets my panties in a bunch 

In reply to Kreb :

Didn't need to be deleted. It wasn't that bad tbh.

FWIW, in Ohio you can't legally "reduce a car to scrap" either.   You need a title to dispose of a shell no matter how little of it remains, therefore you are selling a car, not disposing of scrap.

When I scrapped my Quantum, they took photos of me and my driver's license, as well as my signed-over title.  It apparently weighed 1100lb including a bunch of extra mass I threw into it.

If you're not a car thief, you'll have a title, so this isn't a problem, and as much of a hassle as it is, it's better than not having these anti-thief rules in place.

yupididit said:

In reply to Kreb :

Didn't need to be deleted. It wasn't that bad tbh.

Thanks. I love California. The reason that the state gets away with imposing the regulations that they do is that there are so many wonderful things about the place. If it truly sucked here, we'd have revolted long ago. When I spoke about all the guns, motorcycles and cars that are owned by my staff, the point was to say that when one really wants something, one finds a way to get it, or a close facsimile thereof.

In reply to Kreb :

Other than the price of real estate and fuel, California is amazing. 

I did like visiting the times I was in Cali, but I wouldn't want to live there.

I turned down a job in California because I didn't want to relocate. It would've been in the Bay Area, and real estate and cost of living was just *stupid* there. Add in the traffic and the weather being meh, it just wasn't worth uprooting a family. Beyond that, I also don't like their resolution/ballot measure of doing things, and I'm not a fan of the way they've gone with their gun laws. 

I feel the same exact way about Texas, but for very different reasons. Nice to visit, but it would take a serious life change to get me to move there.

I like threads like these. I figure a E36 M3load of anti-California propaganda might be the only way to drive the cost of real estate low enough that I may be able to afford a place there some day. I picture myself browsing parts at the Pomona swap meet, or chillin on the front porch of a hippie cabin with Willie Nelson in Mendocino county, or becoming an undercover surf cop to break up Patrick Swayze's bank robbery ring. So just keep on pouring on the hate, it's my ticket off the frozen tundra.

I've never liked Cali. Been several times, north and south. There's no way I could handle y'alls level of oversight and idiocy, the high CoL and all that entails. That's probably why I live where I live and visit elsewheres. 

If I was to move out of the midwest, it would be somplace that the weather never changes. Like Hawaii. But that brings on it's own issues. 

"California" has a lot of range...it spans the most beautiful to the ugliest that this country has to offer.  

Everything great about California has nothing to do with policy.  

In reply to Tyler H :

I beg to differ on the "most beautiful" part. There are beautiful places for sure, but most? That would be a hard sell IMO. 

In reply to bobzilla :

SOME of the most beautiful. Better?