(not my image. I just find these comical and incredibly dangerous)
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Aren‘t vehicles and/or custom parts checked for safety and roadworthiness in the US??? 😱
Not in Texas. I can basically guarantee that this is in houston, they are all over the place down there. They're called elbows or swangas and are popular throughout the "slow loud and bangin"(slab) car culture native to the area.
In South Florida we have late model Chevy sedans jacked up 2 feet with 40+inch rims, candy paint jobs, and one time I saw a Caprice with "truck nuts" clearly custom made from soccer balls. I'll take them any day over this.
Houston went through that phase a long time ago. Surprised it’s still around
Slabs are just lowriders whose owners don't know how to shut the trunk.
Houston was my first thought too.
i have never in my 24 years of owning and driving 13 cars while living in two US states experienced such a mandatory check.
I've very distant memories of emissions tests but that was strictly exhaust or OBDII checks specifically for emissions.
Never safety or roadworthiness.
You can literally mount real bull horns to your hood over there
Depends on what state you live in if there are mandatory vehicle inspections (20 of 50 states do NOT have vehicle inspections). The state I live in does not have any mandatory vehicle inspections.
Actually, 38 of 50 states don't have periodic vehicle inspections.
Most countries require annual safety inspections.
That is insane. So they drive their car into the dirt until it's falling apart with no consideration of other roads users. Just insane
They do give tickets even in states with no inspections (fix-it tickets).
What magical place do you live where the police do their job?
that's un-American
My state does have inspections but they are going away after the state admitted all they cared about was the fee. Personally, I don't think they mattered with the number of vehicles I see on a regular basis with valid stickers and obvious safety issues.
This is crazy…
Some of them are surprisingly legal, depending on the width of the car. They're popular in Houston, and so long as the total width of the vehicle doesn't exceed 102 inches they may be legal in Texas. Lots of them do make the vehicle wider than 8 feet, but for probable cause it has to be glaringly obvious they're over 102 inches, and that's not always legally clear. They mostly get tickets for them if they get pulled over for something else and the cops measure them during the stop.
And Texas no longer requires inspections as of like 2 years ago. But they could just remove them before inspections before anyway.
There are no more standards in america if your liked.