New law limits DIY auto repairs

[nthach]

Many cities outside of Cali have ordinances that say, for instance, a car can't stay parked for more than 72 hours on a street and such. Almost never enforced unless your neighbors are jerks, it's street cleaning day, or your live where there's snow removal.

also depends on how gentrified your City/neighborhood is. I’ve seen cars parked for weeks before the cops orange tag it. But, the next neighborhood over, people are quick to call the cops for parked cars.

 

[nthach]

this was instituted almost 2 years ago--it's just remanufactured outrage and California bashing, IMO (a lot of other municipalities nationwide have similar ordinances).

The target seems pretty clear: mobile fly-by-night repair shops. I have seen some crazy stuff in California, including the guys doing a transmission swap on the sidewalk outside of a rental condo of mine. Pretty ingenious, actually. They unbolted the subframe and lifted the chassis off of the ground--had it up in the air on some cut 2x4's... They managed the whole thing in about 6 hours.

I think it's a lot of hand wringing over nothing.

Oakland passed a law banning auto repairs at parts stores for the same reason. There was a particular AutoZone in a far from gentrified part of town(but starting to slowly) on Bancroft and 73rd that had many clandestine mechanics operating there.