That is sooo true… Here is TN’s vehicle laws, most are NOT enforced…
I can not copy and paste any of the wording, so I will just list the ones not enforced in middle TN…
Tires: See cords and impact bulges all the time…
Brakes: See calipers locked up and the rotor disc has broken away from the rotor hat so the wheel spins freely… Seen a lot of e-brakes that don’t work…
ONLY commercial vehicles are ever checked by the state troopers, but other than that NOTHING is ever checked by law enforcement… Trust me, HAD to release many unsafe vehicles back to customers to be driven on public road, the only legal thing we could do would be to pay to have the customers vehicle towed to there house and then just hand the keys over…
Steering: Lifted vehicles also have modified steering systems-well duhhh…
My sons steering wheel is only 10" diameter and no air bag, he has been pulled over and nothing was ever said about it…
Suspension: Some of the lifted front strut trucks have leveling blocks between the strut tower and the strut mount…
Exhaust: I know of a lot of vehicles with no mufflers or cats, straight pipe(s)… My son had a few neighbors complain on him, the cops showed up to his door and said they didn’t care about it but try to run in a higher gear/lower rpm so the noise will be less…
The ONLY time I ever had anything said about the load exhaust on any of my cars was when I out ran an undercover cop before he gave me the blue light special… the other cops laughed and said he was just mad I beat him… (long story behind that one lol), yes lots of back up marked cars showed up… that was around 1988… Never had anything said since, and my car would set off car alarms while I was driving around looking for a parking spot, I was picky…
Fenders: This one I find funny, I did not know that we are not required to have fenders on our vehicles…
Emissions: This one is not correct, those county’s started have emissions/Marta in the mid 90’s,not in 2005, I am thinking 1995, cause I met my wife in 1996 and I could not drive either hot rod due to the new Marta law when we met…