B4 - Sunday, June 26, 1983 - North Shore News RADIATOR REP) For tast. professional repairs or service on your automotive or marine cooling system, come direct to the coolirfg system specialists. DRIVE IN SERVICE Just off Pemberton, drive around back Mon - Fri 8:00 - 5:30: Sat 8:00 - 3:30 NOR EST RADIATORS 1175. West 14th St..N:V. 984-0374 Over 30 years on the North Shore BCAA. Approved Mufflers To Fit COPS FOR A DAY Things we'd give tickets By THE EDITORS OF POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE Take a drive down any Most Domestic and Import Cars and Trucks! ‘Example: 1975—1979 Honda Civic - $29.97 $31.37 1978—1981 Chev Malibu - $31.37 1975—1979 Ford Granada - *Fast Service - No Appointment Necessary “Mufflers conditionally guaranted for as long as you own your car or truck - 984-4296 975 Marine Dr., N.V. Gust west of Capitano Mall) Sale Ends June 30/83 ONLY $ 3 Gg + PARTS And that’s no joke. We tune your car, check compression, replace plugs if necessary, check ignition and replace defective parts, scope check, set up to specs, and give a6 month written Wynn's Warranty Drop in soon. Our Licenced Mechanics will also check and report on: fluid levels carburetor condition belts & hoses battery brakes tires shocks exhaust coolant all lights Peter Brand Motors 1519 Clyde Ave 922-3231 _ West Vancouver road in the country and you'll see the usual shenanigans: people backing up for missed exits; people coming to a full stop in the acceleration lane, then pull- ing out into the path of on- coming traffic at a 45 degree angle; people pulling homemade trailers that han- dle about as well as a paper cup in a typhoon. Naturaly, the only police you see are manning their radar units, ready to give speeding tickets to vaca- tioners, businessmen, truckers and other generally law-abiding citizens who are driving attentively, but slightly over the speed limit. It might lead you to wonder. If I were a traffic cop for a day, who'd get the tickets, and who'd get off? It’s a fact of life that a police office cannot ticket every law breaker that he sees — if he did, he'd never get more than a half mile from the station house! So he must pick and choose from aé_e garden blooming with violations, ticketing those that are especially dangerous, or are easy to make stick in court, or are his pet peeves, or — in Many cases — are the target of a special campaign against speeding. Here are the folks we'd bust. See if you agree. Things we'd give tickets for: e Failure to dim bright lights — Hey! Give us a break. This guy drives us nuts! It's usually a suburban cowboy in a pickup and he's running with enough aux- iliary halogens to light up Chicago. ; Not only does he want to see the road, but every blade of grass on the shoulder, as well. In the process, he gives everybody in front of him severe radiation bum. These superbright lights have their purpose. But they're not for a detailed ex- amination of your retinas. We'd write him up in a se- cond. |t's nof only a nuisance, but a _ serious menace on the road. e Operating an unsafe vehicle — This includes all the rambling wrecks with bald, underinflated tires, wobbly wheels, nonexistent brakes, dragging exhaust, missing or badly aimed headlights, and so on. ® Backing up on express ways — These people have got to be out to lunch. How can anybody be so ignorant as to msk a massive pile-up by backing up to a missed exit? This should be a capital offense. It often is for the other guy. @ Opening doors into traf- fic — Another suicide mis- sion that can involve inno- cent passersby. e@ Driving too fast for con- ditions ~— Even Mario An- drettti has to slow down for rain, snow, fog and ice. So why not everyone else? Tailgating Tailgaters are usually dangerous, frustrated, unpredictable drivers. We always pull over and let them by. We'd rather have them in front of us, where we can see them. e Driving without light after dusk — This is one which an I.Q. test, given along with the eyesight test down at the Motor Vehicle Branch, might solve. If it’s too dark to read the in- struments, you'd think a per- son would be able to figure out that it was time to turn on the lights. e Driving under the in- fluence — The local police or highway patrol — even the CHiP — can't spot every driver whose erratic lane changing, speeding up and slowing down indicate that they are driving under the in- fluence of alcohol or drugs. The wisest course of ac- tion is to pull off the road at the first opportunity and call the local police emergency number. Give the descrip- tion, license number, loca- tion and direction the car is travelling. They only fade away In the history of the automobile, no battery ever failed when it was financial- ly convenient to the owner or timely, the director of technical services at the Automotive Parts & Ac- cessones Association, Tim Tierney, points out. “A battery can be a year past its 36-month warranty and the car owner still will try to get that last nickel’'s ‘juice’ from it,” Tierney says “So he ends up paying a tow bill and buying the nearest battery with little choice in cost ” SENSIBLE ALTERNATIVE Instead of trying to save a quarter, the car owner should look for the battery's signal that it is weamng out, IKE NAKAYAMA ae fremmatamandonsaiannsanionati PUZOLT P-0O~