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University Daily Kansan, March 23, 1983
Dealer wants stricter car inspections
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
The proposed elimination of the safety inspections required when used cars are sold in a step in the wrong location, a local used car dealer said yesterday.
Harry Campbell, owner of Crystal Motors Trading Post at 632 New Hampshire ST., said that instead of eliminating the inspection program, as Carolin has proposed, the Legislature should raise the program's standards.
"They're not strict enough," he said. Everyone should be required to have a license.
Campbell, whose business is licensed as a vehicle inspection station, said that inspections were even more important now that new cars were so expensive.
"More people are driving used cars than ever before," he said.
THE HOUSE TRANSPORTATION Committee is studying a measure already passed by the Senate that would eliminate state inspection of buses when Chief Charles Crowell, R-Longton, said he expected the committee to vote on the bill today or tomorrow.
Dennis Williams, senior budget analyst for the division of the budget, said that Carlin's proposal would end up making the state more than it would save.
The state highway fund would lose $228,000 a year in fees alone if the program is eliminated, he said.
State law requires that a person wishing to sell a car must have it
Equipment checked in motor vehicle inspections includes horns, windshield wipers, brakes, tires, lights and exhaust systems.
THE STATE RECEIVES 50 cents of the $5.50 inspection charge. Motor vehicle inspection stations, which include service stations and car dealers, pay a $25 annual fee to the highway fund.
And instead of laying off the nine patrolmen who check motor vehicle inspection stations across the state, Williams said, Carlin wants to put them to better use.
Colonel David Hornbaker, superintendent of the state highway Patrol, said he supported elimination of the program because the patrolmen could be used to investigate car thefts and to perform additional spot vehicle in
"We'll have to beef up our random inspections," he said.
But State Rep. Larry Erne, D-Coffeyville, said that more spot inspections would not take care of the problems eliminating the program would create.
"Our present inspection program has taken much of the junk off the highway," he said. "Spot inspections
ERNE SAID HE favored increasing the inspection fee charge and putting more teeth into the inspection regulations.
just force more people to stop on the highway, many for no good reason."
ed Olomon, assistant service manager at Lawrence Toyota-Maida Inc., 2300 W. 29th St., said, "My opinion is that vehicle inspection is necessary, but the specifications are so lenient that the current program is meaningless.
"Eliminating it isn't going to hurt anything."
For example, Olson said, the regulations say that there should be no traffic on the street.
"But what's excessive play?" he said.
Ewing Gunn, service manager at Jim Clark Motors, 2121 W. 29th St. Terrace, said, "Right now safety inspections don't really prove that a car is safe. They should improve the program or eliminate it."
Gunn estimated that his station inspected about five cars a day.
"About half of them need something,
even if it's only a bulb," he said.
CLYDE CHAPMAN, DIRECTOR of the Lawrence Consumer Affairs Association, said he opposed the elimination of the program.
"It's going to put a lot of problem cars on the road," he said. "Used car sales are something that should be regulated, and if this program is eliminated there will be no regulation in the state of Kansas."
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