Adventures in car inspection
 

Va requires a safety inspection every year, which is done by the guys at the local gas stations.

"What kind of car is this, a Maserati?"

"No, it's a Tesla"

"Huh. Glad I asked."

And then: http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...3cecf04e8c.jpg

Well, at career day, those guys weren't struggling to choose between NASA, DARPA, and inspection bay.

Funny though.

Inspires confidence in their abilities to perform a proper inspection. ;)

I suppose there is no check box for "logo." Or "name written in big letters on back."

Did he fail you on emissions?

What about the engine? I am sure they found it. lol

My g/f's dad is like that.

He can't spell worth a crap, nor does he have an extended vocabulary, but man, can he diagnose a problem with anything mechanical.

I remember he bought Harley parts from various swap meets. He must have had 10 or so big boxes in his garage, with pistons, con rods, transmission gears, etc. splayed out all over.

A few weeks later, he had built himself a really cool rat bike with the old school foot clutch/jockey shift setup. He rode that bike to a motorcycle rally about 150 miles and parked it in a sea of other newer, custom-built garage queens.

Guess which bike had the most attention ??

I think there are some people who are wired different from what we consider the norm, kinda like musicians.

Well, at career day, those guys weren't struggling to choose between NASA, DARPA, and inspection bay.

Here in Joisey, inspection is free and performed by the state. It consists of looking at your registration / insurance and plugging into the OBDII port. That is all.

You can have visible smoke, a headlight out, a cracked windshield, and no brakes and still pass... :?

Really? When did it become that? I'm still on the 5 (6?) year new car pass on my car, and my wife has paid a private garage for the last few years on her older car.

I remember the state inspection stations being serious ball-busters... a friend of mine once failed inspection (many years ago) because his after-market shift knob didn't have the gear pattern displayed on it.

August 1st, 2010.

Effective August 1, 2010, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission made changes to the New Jersey Vehicle Inspection Program eliminating the mechanical defects (safety) portion of the inspection process for passenger vehicles. Most passenger vehicles will be required to be inspected biennially (every two years) for emissions only.

The NJMVC is a combination of patronage appointees (top), civil service and contract employees (rest). Nobody wants to do anything.

Wow. When I first moved back from CA I started going to private stations so as not to fail due to my window tint, and continued doing so with my wife's car as I bought new car after new car. I missed this whole change.

The inspection station in Randolph were real ball buster's too. There was a station on rt10 in E. Hanover (along side Sleger's motorcycles) that would pass just about anything

Clyde wins the Internet this morning.

:?

:lol2:

Tesla even got a presidential shout-out last night.

I wonder if it's an option in the computer system they use(?)

Yeah, um, FC said it first a few posts up.

Over your head too eh?

hint: some guys want to be mechanics. really.

only the morons though

I'm glad someone caught it.

I'm sorry, but I'm the one most glad someone caught it. :D

I am usually multi-tasking when I'm here during the day. I really ought to stop "trying to help".

Do I get at least some points for knowing there was something to get, even though I wasn't getting it?

It's ok. At career day, not everyone is struggling to choose between NASA, DARPA, and word play.

:bustingup

Do we need a "career day" thread now?

I could use one.

I want to see the part of the form where they state they checked the exhaust system and that is OK. :)

I remember when we lived in VA, EVERY inspection ended up needing the headlights aimed. It was an easy extra few bucks in their pocket.

A friend of my Dad's complained about it, that the headlights had just been aimed, etc. He ended with a list of about $500 worth of repairs (in the 60s). And the law was, if you got your car inspected, the original station that did the inspection had to pass it.

Headlight aiming is included in the cost of the inspection.

In VA? I am not sure that it is. We had the same experience Pinecone did with one of our cars.

So slimy! Not to mention I would despise having those criminals touch my car.

In Maryland, where Pinecone lives.

I've never been to an inspection place that charged me extra for a headlight adjustment. It's always been included in the base "inspection" fee.

In WA we don't have safety inspections. We have emissions testing every other year in urbanized counties but not safety inspections.

I haven't seen anything noting that we're lacking in road safety or that we have a higher accident rate because of a lack of safety inspections. So . . . . I'm glad we don't have them here. It seems like such a racket.

What a clyde/bono/jv thing to post.

And glad someone beat us to it. :lol:

maybe these are not considered safety issues, but it seems to me that I can't drive 2 miles without seeing a car with a damaged windshield or failed headlight/taillights :dunno:

Welcome to Washington.

Each of my cars (except the E9) has a damaged windshield. I hate it.

:lol:

It's never too late to move!

I guess I need to go back to having my afternoon cup of coffee. Yikes.

We are already discussing our next home

Here in NV, all we have is a yearly smog test, and from what I've heard, it's pretty "lax".

I have a coworker who also owns 2 smog shops, so he gives me a substantial discount and saves me a good $12 per vehicle. And when you have 4, that savings add up to close to $50 !! :)

I used to live in NJ where they had yearly inspections. It sucked.