That is the very video I was referring to.

C'mon up, I'll show you around my neck of the woods.

I love it up there and hope to come up again. When they passed the exclusion box rule is when I quit, boxes would take alot of room for me to haul up.

Maybe if Mink prices come back....I think a fella could catch a charge of them.

lots of places that could go , anyone who is jumping on vehicle inspection because they saw that video had an agenda

how do you know it wasn't a vehicle form an inspected

it was in California

https://abc7.com/118-freeway-crash-caught-on-video-chatsworth/13024626/

since California is a state vehicle inspection state I would put that as a nope didn't work.

Back to inspections....

Stickers cost me 2 dollars each for years, until we got Wolfe as a governor...a democrat. Right now they cost me 9 dollars each! In essence, he put a 7 dollar tax on every vehicle in the state but people don't realize it.

The inspection fee is $15 here, pass or fail. I'm all for safe vehicles, but the state has set up a predatory system where there is little recourse. I don't doubt someone could go to three different inspection stations and all could come up with different issues to fail the vehicle.

some of our county's also have a emissions inspection. gotta have clean air! but obummer got rid of all the clunkers! mercer county,pa has it. to the west of them is youngstown ohio. who's air did they sample?

exactly the issue if the state doesn't staff the inspection site with a state employee how are you getting a unbiased inspection.

and if they staff with a state employee how can it be cost effective

a civil suit of a vehicle that meets all the state standards that is failed by private inspection place would be interesting.


I worked for a national auto service chain in the 90s for a while, the whole point in bringing cars in for oil changes for 20 dollars was to find the other work they needed in the inspection.

All ya have to do is report them if you think they did ya wrong and they'll check it out.

Here, every so often they have an undercover guy drive around and have you inspect his car. don't do it right and you're fined and license revoked.

There's more checks and balances than meets the eye.

That's all we have here. Emissions test -$20 But it is a farce. Most cars nowadays run clean or they don't run.

No safety inspection.

We call them "city slicker stickers" here. Our county doesn't have them so it's easy to tell who isn't from around here.

And! I can't do a safety inspection on a car that needs one unless it has a new city slicker sticker on it.

We used to have state employees running the emissions test centers here. But then they found the state employees cheating/taking bribes. It got shut down one day with police taking people out of the building at gunpoint. Big scandal.

Now run by the private sector.

Stickahs here are 40-45.00

Fail for glazed ovah head light lenses
Bald tires
Loose ball joint .
Steering components
Excessive rust
rotted out body mounts.
Burning excessive oil
Cracked glass

Stickers we don’t need no stinking sticker!

We don’t have them in Idaho but I take my vehicles to a garage every year to get a complete inspection for my piece of mind

Yep, never heard of such nonsense...

Friend of mine moved to Tennessee. He said .

You should see the junk on the road here ! He said .
I pray every day ,that no one comes into my lane

For a nice head on collision...because of worn out steering paahts.

It's motor vehicles and multi-axle trailers here and a total waste of time and money. There was some talk of doing away with it a few years ago but it didn't go anywhere.

I remember a TV doc. on auto mech. fraud. Undercover camera footage.
Small pump oil can, secretly squirt a little on a shock. Show the customer.
"This ones leaking ..... better change both" ( maybe all 4 would be wise)
Chaaaa Chinggggg $ $ $
Day in, day out. Easy job, minimal training, cheap labor, big markup, monster profits.

Every year battle in NY. Safety and emission inspection. Biggest problem is have any kind of code on the computer. Fix the problem. Wipe the code off and still have to drive sometimes hundreds of miles to have it clear the code for the inspection. Can't remember when they didn't have inspection NY. $21 bucks every year and sometimes lots of hassle