Ontario Driver's Licence Rant

JetFan · Guru

Ontario Driver's Licence Rant

dualquadpete · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Didn't know "Premier Dad" was at it again!!! This guy is bound & bent to save everyone from everything by legeslating us to the ground!!! Hope everyone remembers this in a yr. from now [if we last that long without more interfearance from the Mc GOOFY Government

73SC · A Poncho Legend!

When I was 15 my dad was sending me 17 miles along HWY 124 in Onatrio to get gas for the boat at the General store, it was a '73 LeMans Sport Coupe I was driving, imagine that today!

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

I hear ya Ray. I (at age 16-with my beginners license) was also driving my mom to the hospital every day during the month of December in a 77 LeMans Sport Coupe when my dad had a brain anurism. Mom was too upset and tired to drive. It would have been a real problem if I couldn't have done it.

Ghost Post · Poncho Master!

Total foolishness and what more could we expect from the McGuilty goverment!!!

It's tough enough wangling your way through the insurance thing these days but my kids are all rolling nicely through their driver's training courses and the current Ontario licencing system..

Is there something w/ the system that's broken and needs $ spent trying to 'fix' it?.

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forespeed · Poncho Master!

I have a question along the same lines. Early in the summer, there was news that the RCMP was going to be stopping and fining vehicles, particularly in Ontario, that didn't have their original engines in them.
For that reason I didn't attend Autofest this year or any other events in Canada. I didn't think it would be too hard to notice a tangerine Acadian with full exhaust but loud enough to be noticed.
Anybody know of anyone being stopped this summer?

87 player bird · Poncho Master!

STOP VOTING LIBERAL!!! How hard is this to understand????? These idiots are nuts! They are trying to save us from what???? LIFE? Maybe time to move to another provence as B.C was getting real goofy when I left 7 years ago.

73SC · A Poncho Legend!

forespeed wrote:

I have a question along the same lines. Early in the summer, there was news that the RCMP was going to be stopping and fining vehicles, particularly in Ontario, that didn't have their original engines in them.
For that reason I didn't attend Autofest this year or any other events in Canada. I didn't think it would be too hard to notice a tangerine Acadian with full exhaust but loud enough to be noticed.
Anybody know of anyone being stopped this summer?

Norm, the RCMP does not police Ontario, rather the Ontario Provincial Police does.
I am not aware of anything such as you mention happening but perhaps other members know.

ga · Addicted!

very unlikely, would require alot of effort and Resources, that

would be usually put toward regular type enforecment, ie a speeding

fine would generate the same revenue with way less effort.

The mto people might pick it up as part of a smog check, but thats

not really what they are looking at, it again is usually way more

straight forward, ie, no cats or someting smilar. ontario requires

like 5 straight minutes of black smoke at the tail pipe to even set

the wheels in motion for inspection at the roadside, the drive clean program

is a much easier way to get extra money and ensure cars have their smog equip.

they wont do the test without the equipment and usually wont pass without it,

most off the old stuff is exempt from drive claen, so not a big worry.

its about dollars, having the mto check for smog parts is time consuming, and

expensive, but frcing u to pay someone else to ensure its present and working

is way cheaper (drive clean), been on a few mto roadside smog checks, never heard

the question asked or even brought up, its cats, mufflers, pcv present, have

a nice day

-- Edited by ga on Tuesday 21st of September 2010 03:34:26 PM

-- Edited by ga on Tuesday 21st of September 2010 03:35:47 PM

rabbit64cs · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

MOVE WEST, and stop voting LIBERAL ....

the other thing about politics,,,,They have now distracted you with their left hand,,,you better pay attention to where the right one is digging !!

I realize moving west is not an option...and almost all the dry cars are gone anyways...so that's not an insentive...LOL !

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

rabbit64cs wrote:

...and almost all the dry cars are gone anyways...so that's not an insentive...LOL !

Of course they are. I've seen the pictures. They're all at your place..

JetFan · Guru

73SC wrote:

forespeed wrote:

I have a question along the same lines. Early in the summer, there was news that the RCMP was going to be stopping and fining vehicles, particularly in Ontario, that didn't have their original engines in them.
For that reason I didn't attend Autofest this year or any other events in Canada. I didn't think it would be too hard to notice a tangerine Acadian with full exhaust but loud enough to be noticed.
Anybody know of anyone being stopped this summer?

Norm, the RCMP does not police Ontario, rather the Ontario Provincial Police does.
I am not aware of anything such as you mention happening but perhaps other members know.

Keep it under your hat. McGinty would love the idea. Remember the forced snow tire idea. Imagine storing 4 sets of tires -- like, in the living room??? Duh!

65Camino · Uber Guru

4 sets. Try having winter and summer cars!

2drpost · Uber Guru

87 player bird wrote:

STOP VOTING LIBERAL!!! How hard is this to understand????? These idiots are nuts! They are trying to save us from what???? LIFE? Maybe time to move to another provence as B.C was getting real goofy when I left 7 years ago.

agreed!!!!!!!!!!

dualquadpete · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

They got one guy in Lindsay on his way to the cruise, stopped for visual emm. equipment check, then they invoked the new street racing law that states if officer thinks car is equiped to street race or suspected of it the vehicle can be confiscated. The guys said it was a "mid " 80's Olds cutlass,with B/B Chevy "blown & nitrious!! Pulled the plates & towed it to yard "apparently"!!!! Yep The "NANNY Province & Premier "DAD" gets another criminal [Cutlass] of the streets!!! Thats the 4th one I know of thats either been taken off the road or fined, but the 1st. on the "street racing law"

CDN2PLS2 · Uber Guru

Who DOESN'T have a winter and summer car??

57poncho · Uber Guru

That is crazy. My dad had me driving the farm truck on the field by the time I was 12. I was to small to throw bails so he taught me how to drive. It was a 59 Chevy 1 ton 4 speed with a flat deck and if I jerked when I was started off he would bang on the roof. By the time I was 15 I could drive a 3/4 ton crew cad with a 4 horse trailer and back in pretty much any where. Till this day I can still back a trailer in better than most people I know. If it wasn't for the training I got when I was young I probably would be like most of my friends and just go where I could drive threw. If kids are not taught at a young age when will they learn once they have moved out of home and have no one to teach them. OH right I forgot kids don't move out of home any more.

mike667 · Poncho Master!

CDN2PLS2 wrote:

Who DOESN'T have a winter and summer car??

I don't. I pay 4g a year for insurance (clean record). If I were to get a winter car, they add a lot more. Insurance BS

CDN2PLS2 · Uber Guru

Yup,that sounds like my sons rates.I don't know how a young guy can started these days.

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

It would be nice for a kid to get some local driving experience before they have to drive to university!

red rat · Guru

I asked my son to drive the pickup around one day when we were cutting firewood in a farmer's field. He was only 13 or so and was quite surprised at me even asking. He got pretty good at it, best time to learn is when you are young.

67BBSD · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

87 player bird wrote:

STOP VOTING LIBERAL!!! How hard is this to understand????? These idiots are nuts! They are trying to save us from what???? LIFe?

ditto

87 player bird · Poncho Master!

69-Tin Indian wrote:

In MY humble opinion, as far as I'm concerned, if an E-Test is only done on cars 1987 and newer, then NO ONE should be able to just do a visual inspection of ANY engine compartment and make a
call something isn't right! tub and hold him under until the bubbles quit, or tie him to the exhaust or......JUST JOKING GUYS!McGuinty shoulda been needled at birth man! It's not too late to run the

JUST JOKING!
I agree!!! Shoulda started with Trudeau in my opinion.

ga · Addicted!

dualquadpete wrote:

They got one guy in Lindsay on his way to the cruise, stopped for visual emm. equipment check, then they invoked the new street racing law that states if officer thinks car is equiped to street race or suspected of it the vehicle can be confiscated. The guys said it was a "mid " 80's Olds cutlass,with B/B Chevy "blown & nitrious!! Pulled the plates & towed it to yard "apparently"!!!! Yep The "NANNY Province & Premier "DAD" gets another criminal [Cutlass] of the streets!!! Thats the 4th one I know of thats either been taken off the road or fined, but the 1st. on the "street racing law"

that would be exactly what would stand out for this kind of thing
mid eighties cutlass should have all the smog goodies that are usually
all missing and replaced with a blower and nitrious, it wouldnt be
the fact the the eingine might be a diffrent year that would send up
the flag, it would be all the other stuff, like a blower on a street car

Pontiacanada · A Poncho Legend!

I cut all ties with Ontario and ripped-up my licence! Too bad I still have friends & family there! biggrin