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Miles_Away
Aug 07, 2013Explorer
travelnutz wrote:
Miles Away,
Wrong! You are not a commercial carrier or towing/carrying for business or financial compensation.
Please note that my post clearly stated OEM components and also airbags are approved as are elastic support enhancements and steel spring leafs/overloads.
Travelnutz:
WRONG? Having spent my carrier as a traffic homicide investigator, accident re-constructionist and insurance investigator, I can tell you with some authority that no matter what kind of parts you use and how good your intentions and mechanical skill package are, if the vehicle was not manufactured for the extra weight, or re-certified by the DOT after the proper modifications were made, it legally remains what it was when it left the factory. The fact that the vehicle in question is not in commercial service has nothing to do with the liability issue. If your insurance company wants to bail on you in the face of a catastrophic loss because your vehicle was not certified for the upgraded weight, you could be left holding the bag alone. The point of my post was to simply say, don't go blindly down a path without first having looked at the possible consequences.
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