Ferrari Mailing List: Re: 550/575 Off the Road

[Erik Nielsen (judge4re]

That’s what insurance is for, to cover write offs once you prang it.  And they’ve figured out that it is cheaper to scrap things than repair them.  Its why craigslist is full of salvaged cars that someone is trying to get rid of or flip after they bought the hulk back from the insurance company.  A rational minded individual would take the check and walk away.

The rules don’t care if you’re driving a 10 year old garage queen Ferrari with a manual box and 1400 miles that now everyone thinks is worth 3x what i was worth new or a 10 year old Kia held together with duct tape.  Cars by definition are designed to be obsolete consumer goods with the regulations written accordingly.  I expect this to get more stringent going forward with more regulations.  Especially if the rules are slanted to “encourage” electromobility.  Too many players with very deep pockets have a lot of skin in this game.  The don’t care about the last car you bought, only the next one.  The dust hasn’t settled on the regulations related to Takata, but I’m expecting that to bring more complexity with revisions to the regulations.  The other manufactures (Autoliv, Delphi and TRW) are too busy making replacements for the 100s of thousands of recalled vehicles, think they’re interested in a small run of airbags to cover the spares requirement of a series of cars that was less than 2200 units?

Erik

On Mar 22, 2016, at 4:22 PM, Dick Petrick <rtpetrick [at] comcast.net> wrote:

Erik, 

There must be some way around this. 

Do these regulatory bodies seriously expect that a car worth 10s of thousands of dollars should (or would) be taken off the road because the OEM airbag cannot be repaired because OEM parts are no longer available? There must be a fix.

This doesn’t make sense.

 

http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4549.20v1

 

See section B.

 

*(B)** No person shall install or reinstall in any motor vehicle a counterfeit or nonfunctional air bag or any object intended to fulfill the function of an air bag other than an air bag that was designed in conformance with or that is regulated by federal motor vehicle safety standard number 208 for the make, model, and model year of the vehicle, knowing that the object is not in accordance with that standard.*

 

Clyde is right, if the part to repair it back to the legal standard is not available, off the road it goes.

 

Let's not even get started with tort law assuming someone is injured because of a non functioning supplemental restraint system...

 

If you want to play design engineer at home, it makes a lot of sense to start with a chassis made prior to 1967.

 

Careful what you recommend Fellippe, those PE letters after your name come with a tremendous amount of public safety responsibility.

 

YMMV,

Erik

 

 

Regards,

Dick Petrick

 

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