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Reply to "Pantera Failed Hawaiian Safety Inspection, Ideas?"

Oh, that's just wrong to have to put that crap on your car at the whim of a village idiot inspector on a power-trip. Reminds me of when I removed a wall between a family room and living room to open up a great room... Did everything to the structural engineers plans, which the city had approved when I got my permits, then the inspector comes out and decides I need additional steel straps in various places - no, he doesn't have a structural engineering degree. I complied then a different inspector who was also on a power-trip showed up 2 days later, and he didn't like the additional straps I added (exactly per the last inspector) and told me that that guy told me the wrong thing, and that I now needed to remove them and do some different additional bracing. I asked to see his engineering degree... I reminded him that the structural engineer said I don't need the additional strapping, and the city plans inspector (his boss) agreed I don't need the additional strapping, my permit/plans show that I don't need the additional strapping, and that I've already complied to the permit/plans and gone above and beyond what was asked and required and don't intend to change it again. I then offered to call his boss to discuss the matter... He conceded and signed off on the inspection, but then found other "bull" to hassle me over - I had cut 4 holes in the ceiling for can lights and had fished a spare piece of Romex wire between two of them to see if it was the right length - he cited me for having exposed wiring and wouldn't 'final' the inspection. I yanked it out of the ceiling to demonstrate it wasn't connected to anything and explained that I was merely checking the length, but he told me "it's too late. I've already seen it." Absolutely ludicrous!

I sure hope you file suit for your trouble. It's absurd to put pipe-bumpers on an exotic sports car making it non-original to comply with some inspector's whimsy in order to pass inspection.
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