Topic: Vehicle Inspections by State

[benb61]

That reminds be what the biggest problem with Minnesota's program was.  It exempted older cars, the very cars that were responsible for 99.99% of the pollution! 

I have a 1969 Firebird that I have recently restored, well actually a resto/mod.  I had a Pontiac 455 built for racing, it develops about 600 HP and runs cleaner than my 2006 corvette (see my avatar).  Most people who own "Classic" cars (and I did say most) care for their vehicles and keep the maintenance up, that being said there are another large group of people that own old cars because that can't afford a new one, which means they can't afford to even maintain that, if you will, POS.  I would have no problem if Ca. required me to smog check the Firebird, except for the cost and bureaucracy of the system, but the car would pass with flying colors.

[Pandora]

In 1991, I took my '89 Escort from NJ to CA and had to pay CA a few hundred dollars for the privilege as, it not having been mfg'd in CA, its emissions system was suspect.  When I took it to inspection as a prelude to registering it, I asked the tester if the car met CA's emission standards.  It did.  What was the point to my having to pay the "entry fee", then?

Because they could make me.  He chuckled when he said it.  And then he berated me for never having had the timing checked.  He "knew" that was so because the socket for the computer test plug had electrical tape over it to keep it dirt-free, which is the way it comes from the mfg.

What he didn't know was that both times my father checked the timing, he replaced the tape.

[BigAlSouth]

By the way, fellow Tarheels, I heard today on the radio that cities were asking the state to help them collect parking tickets by refusing to issue a license plate until parking fines were paid.

Big Brutha is watchin you . . .

[Libertas]

That ain't my brutha!

 

[Glock32]

Also in NC, and I imagine other states as well, your annual "safety and emissions" inspection also oddly includes a recording of the vehicle's mileage. What are the odds this hasn't been done in advance of a forthcoming annual mileage tax?

[Alphabet Soup]

In my state the state constitution precludes ongoing toll roads. It's OK to invoke tolls for a particular road project on that thoroughfare, but they (the leftist cork-soakers) haven't been allowed to set them up willy-nilly....until now. Because they have relentlessly spent their allowance on elaborate accommodations for buses that no one rides they don't have the money to fix the infrastructure (forget about new construction - it ain't happening!).

So they're going forward with plans to place tolls on every major road in western Washington. The know how bloody expensive the court battles will be but they consider it funny money anyway so they don't GAS. This way they get to terrorize the commuting public whilst simultaneously raiding the general fund while plundering the transportation fund.

Liebruls are evil!

[warpmine]

By the way, fellow Tarheels, I heard today on the radio that cities were asking the state to help them collect parking tickets by refusing to issue a license plate until parking fines were paid.

Big Brutha is watchin you . . .

Shoot, they gots that in MD. If you fart and don't have permission, you cannot get new registration without paying the fine and then the flag fee on top of that. You're 100% f#$ked thanks to the millions of drones that complain about it all yet are per-programmed to vote DemonRat.

[Libertas]

Lot of Cloward-Piven & Allinsky following asshats out there, the destruction cannot be tabulated fast enough to keep up with these demons!

In Minnie we are attempting to crush entreprenurialism once and for all, expand voting rights to absurd no-holds-barred levels and promote homosexers deviancy...

I cannot tell people to go to Hell anymore, there bringing it here!