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Old 05-05-2018, 01:54 AM   #328
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Originally Posted by nikitopo View Post
You cannot say yourself if a modification is safe and no one cares if you are responsible or not. Even your dealer cannot say if a modification can cause issues on public roads and it is irrelevant with warranty. You still don't get it. Only a certified inspector by an independent organization can do this or certified people within the factory.
Define "safe". How do you certify someone to determine if something is "safe"? What are the qualifications/certifications that someone needs to have in order to define what "safe" is? What are the qualifications/certifications needed to give someone the qualifications/certifications to define "safe"? And so on...

The point is that "safe" and "reliable" are relative terms. At some point a person or committee made a judgement call to define and quantify these words, then made some rules up to standardize it. Some other person or committee will inevitably come to a different conclusion. And then they will argue and try to force one's standard on the other because clearly 'my conclusion is better than yours'. Now, we can continue to discuss who's committee is more right, but politics is frowned on here.
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