Speed racer

By ZThirteen - 25/10/2009 10:08 - United States

Today, I got a speeding ticket. My speedometer got busted a few weeks back, rendering it useless. My father, a former mechanic, decided it's not worth the trouble of going in and fixing it. "Just keep with traffic when you're on the highway; you'll be fine." This $150 fee says otherwise. FML
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McA513M 0

YDI for not getting it fixed, regardless what your father said.

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WonderBlunder 0

What if you're the only car on the street, on a school zone?

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twixbarlover 0

YDI for not keeping with trafic like he said. i drove around for a weekend without a speedometer and was just fine!

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lans4 1

They probably did and the person in front was speeding, or they were alone.

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your_face 15

Yeah - you could have (well, really should have) gotten another fine for driving with faulty equipment.

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kukopia 0

Even a current, good mechanic can't fix a speedometer. It takes highly specialized tools and skills to work on speedometers. OP should buy a cheap GPS, they show your speed. Cheaper than having the speedo fixed.

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alleyes 0

BULL SHIT!!! A simple swap out takes less than an hour with basic tools and average mechanical knowledge, cheeper than $150 too. I'm not the type of person to make a claim unless I've done the work personaly. Granted I've never worked on high end stuff like lambo's and ferrari, etc..

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kukopia 0

IF it would be a simple swap... IF he had a good speedo to swap... plz... If you had half a brain...

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thekillercure21 0

You must suck at driving then, or at least getting out of a ticket, because my friend has been pulled over about 4 times with a busted speedometer and they all let him go.

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con1303 0

exactly! The speedometer on my car was broken (still is actually but I don't drive it much) and I was fine. I drove it like that for a long time. You must suck at driving because it isn't that hard to go the right speed. And because cops generally have a certain leeway, you were probably really speeding. Telling the cop its broken doesn't mean shit. Its just too bad for you. I took a gps for a long trip and it worked fine too. If for some reason you can't judge your speed, you should have either gotten it fixed, or gotten a gps. YDI I got a ticket for going 80 in a 55. But I obviously knew I was speeding, and I didn't try too hard to talk out of it. The cop didn't care my speedo was broken. And my fine was only 125. So how fast were you going?

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orangefish_65 8

my dad drove for ages without his speedometer working. we've now got a new car.

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usernamesarehard 4

Your dad was right, you just didn't hear the 'D' ;)

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jazzyk 0

Well, I agree FYL. My fist car was a used car and when I started driving it the speedometer stopped working. I ended up getting it fixed but it cost me the price of a mechanic going in, finding that he couldn't fix it, shipping me to the dealership that charged me 700$ for the piece, plus the cost of labour. If I would have known, I would have avoided getting it changed too.

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