Why NYS Inspections Are A Joke
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Date: 2023-07-24
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Mr.
Yep, the bad techs pass em bc they don't make any money on them. Many years ago I was a MO state inspector and with a maximum fee of 12 most techs stop caring.
Inspections are not for safety (at least anymore. They are to help direct revenue to the state or highway patrol/licensing bureau.
If it was actually about safety they'd get hardcore on inspection procedures and fines for improperly done.
I mean for just the brakes alone we were only required to pull any one wheel of our choice. (most techs don't even pull one, they just eyeball the pads thru the wheel.
How does this prove the brakes are safe?
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Yep, the bad techs pass em bc they don't make any money on them. Many years ago I was a MO state inspector and with a maximum fee of 12 most techs stop caring.
Inspections are not for safety (at least anymore. They are to help direct revenue to the state or highway patrol/licensing bureau.
If it was actually about safety they'd get hardcore on inspection procedures and fines for improperly done.
I mean for just the brakes alone we were only required to pull any one wheel of our choice. (most techs don't even pull one, they just eyeball the pads thru the wheel.
How does this prove the brakes are safe?
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JT
I'm glad I live in a state that doesn't do vehicle inspections at all. It may seem kind of backwards, but for one we don't have rust issues down here in Alabama. I've been working on vehicles for about 3 years now, and the crappiest hoopties that come into my shop, aren't that bad. They may come in with the engine bay brutalized, and the codes cleared out 25 miles ago, no emissions equipment left to speak of, but I don't let anything leave my shop that would be unsafe on the road. My customers know this, and they all seem to respect that.
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I'm glad I live in a state that doesn't do vehicle inspections at all. It may seem kind of backwards, but for one we don't have rust issues down here in Alabama. I've been working on vehicles for about 3 years now, and the crappiest hoopties that come into my shop, aren't that bad. They may come in with the engine bay brutalized, and the codes cleared out 25 miles ago, no emissions equipment left to speak of, but I don't let anything leave my shop that would be unsafe on the road. My customers know this, and they all seem to respect that.
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Affra
I live in a different country, we used to have state managed shops only to do the inspections, everything was good back then, now days anyone can get a license to do the inspections and sign off a vehicle. Recently a shop near my location got busted, they basically drove the car through their garage and out the other side then you got a paper, well they got majorly busted, owner went to jail, but it's far from the only place doing it: /
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I live in a different country, we used to have state managed shops only to do the inspections, everything was good back then, now days anyone can get a license to do the inspections and sign off a vehicle. Recently a shop near my location got busted, they basically drove the car through their garage and out the other side then you got a paper, well they got majorly busted, owner went to jail, but it's far from the only place doing it: /
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Hack
PRNY. That answers a lot of questions. Unfortunately, the disease is spreading. IMHO, vehicle inspections can be a good thing, considering the amount of junk that's running up and down the roads. Yet, there's always a way to 'get around' the intent of the law. I sure as heck don't want to get t-boned by some vehicle, who's brake lines decided to give out, as they are approaching a stop light/sign at a high speed.
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PRNY. That answers a lot of questions. Unfortunately, the disease is spreading. IMHO, vehicle inspections can be a good thing, considering the amount of junk that's running up and down the roads. Yet, there's always a way to 'get around' the intent of the law. I sure as heck don't want to get t-boned by some vehicle, who's brake lines decided to give out, as they are approaching a stop light/sign at a high speed.
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pete
Most NY inspection shops are simply a lick and stick. No safety inspections and at level best a emissions test plug in and if it passes that you got a sticker. I remember a shop that the owner had an 11 year old son doing inspections for his dad and on weekends the cars were lined up like cord-wood. Eric with all that said you can see why the color lettering on your sign was illegal. LOL
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Most NY inspection shops are simply a lick and stick. No safety inspections and at level best a emissions test plug in and if it passes that you got a sticker. I remember a shop that the owner had an 11 year old son doing inspections for his dad and on weekends the cars were lined up like cord-wood. Eric with all that said you can see why the color lettering on your sign was illegal. LOL
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Big
I think you're incorrect in one way. Now you have thousands upon thousands of people that can call. Even if you have 20% influence that Scotty Kilmer would have that's a lot! It's just unsafe. And unfair. Look at that thing! I don't blame the customer, it's just too tempting to go cheap with little extra funds. That scraping sound at the wheel is what should drive anyone nuts and fix it.
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I think you're incorrect in one way. Now you have thousands upon thousands of people that can call. Even if you have 20% influence that Scotty Kilmer would have that's a lot! It's just unsafe. And unfair. Look at that thing! I don't blame the customer, it's just too tempting to go cheap with little extra funds. That scraping sound at the wheel is what should drive anyone nuts and fix it.
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Foodskewed919
That s about like NC. your tint can t be les than 32 % on a sedan but you can paint your suv windows black and that s ok. But, you only fail for steering if it causes 3 of steering wheel play. Oh and you can ride around with 4 donut tires, but in order to fail you have to have LESS than 2/32 tread depth on 2 adjacent tread patterns. It s all a ploy just to get money
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That s about like NC. your tint can t be les than 32 % on a sedan but you can paint your suv windows black and that s ok. But, you only fail for steering if it causes 3 of steering wheel play. Oh and you can ride around with 4 donut tires, but in order to fail you have to have LESS than 2/32 tread depth on 2 adjacent tread patterns. It s all a ploy just to get money
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James
I get it- follow the law and do an honest job. I completely agree. But, for all the people in the comments getting the vapors about dangerous vehicles being let back on the road. Un-twist your panties. Most places have no inspections at all and people are responsible to maintain their own cars. Oh the horror.
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I get it- follow the law and do an honest job. I completely agree. But, for all the people in the comments getting the vapors about dangerous vehicles being let back on the road. Un-twist your panties. Most places have no inspections at all and people are responsible to maintain their own cars. Oh the horror.
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Music
They re getting rid of state inspections altogether in TX in the next couple of years. They re pretty much a joke here though. Lights and horn is all that I ve ever had checked. Out of nowhere, last time I went in, my horn wouldn t work for some reason. Guy said, I heard it, if you did.
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They re getting rid of state inspections altogether in TX in the next couple of years. They re pretty much a joke here though. Lights and horn is all that I ve ever had checked. Out of nowhere, last time I went in, my horn wouldn t work for some reason. Guy said, I heard it, if you did.
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paradislarry
I live in Mass. know people who own inspection stations, it always appeared to me that the money made, versus the costs of being an Inspection station, was almost NOT WORTH IT, I can only imagine (other than it might produce work, that you could almost live without it as well.
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I live in Mass. know people who own inspection stations, it always appeared to me that the money made, versus the costs of being an Inspection station, was almost NOT WORTH IT, I can only imagine (other than it might produce work, that you could almost live without it as well.
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Stanley
Sometimes you just have to go outside and blow off some steam, and walk back in your office and realize that you're better than the people that are just looking for an easy way out. Just take one day at a time someone will cross your path and give you reason to keep on going
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Sometimes you just have to go outside and blow off some steam, and walk back in your office and realize that you're better than the people that are just looking for an easy way out. Just take one day at a time someone will cross your path and give you reason to keep on going
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scrappy
The inspections should be done by the state, and repairs done by repair shops. That is way it was done here in NJ. Now all the state does is check for emission codes. Tons of junk running around here, but the air is clean. What a joke the system is.
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The inspections should be done by the state, and repairs done by repair shops. That is way it was done here in NJ. Now all the state does is check for emission codes. Tons of junk running around here, but the air is clean. What a joke the system is.
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vincent
you care too much about your family and business to lower yourself to the standards of these get over garages. as far as the state being picky the e. p. a shut my job down for a few percentage points on the scale. 200 people out of work
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you care too much about your family and business to lower yourself to the standards of these get over garages. as far as the state being picky the e. p. a shut my job down for a few percentage points on the scale. 200 people out of work
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Si
Ya need to move to a freeER state than communist NY. We d love to have ya down here in the good ol Commonwealth of VIRGINIA! We ARE South of the mason dixon and therefore we re nicer eh never mind lol but yeah we d love ya down here!
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Ya need to move to a freeER state than communist NY. We d love to have ya down here in the good ol Commonwealth of VIRGINIA! We ARE South of the mason dixon and therefore we re nicer eh never mind lol but yeah we d love ya down here!
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Marco
Here in Montreal we only have to inspect if vehicle has not been used for 12m+. But we have many language inspectors checking business signs, and your emails dont have English in them. Until they meet the short fuse, wrong owner.
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Here in Montreal we only have to inspect if vehicle has not been used for 12m+. But we have many language inspectors checking business signs, and your emails dont have English in them. Until they meet the short fuse, wrong owner.
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Chuck
It would be funny if it weren't so sad. Hope the owner doesn't hurt himself or others (and the original 'inspector' cleans up his act or is removed from the process. This car may be dead (and not know it yet.
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It would be funny if it weren't so sad. Hope the owner doesn't hurt himself or others (and the original 'inspector' cleans up his act or is removed from the process. This car may be dead (and not know it yet.
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LexTeakMiaLoki
Any inspector that would shut down one of the best and most honest shops ever, because of a sign issue, needs to be taken in the back room for a little massage with Big Nasty!
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Any inspector that would shut down one of the best and most honest shops ever, because of a sign issue, needs to be taken in the back room for a little massage with Big Nasty!
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Paul
Illinois does not have inspections. Yet. Where there's red tape and bureaucracy involved, Illinois will be there. They used to inspect pickups and trucks, but that was forty years ago.
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Illinois does not have inspections. Yet. Where there's red tape and bureaucracy involved, Illinois will be there. They used to inspect pickups and trucks, but that was forty years ago.
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Lucas
Frustrations are completely warranted. Keep doing what you re doing. The amazing part of what you do and how you do it is that you have saved more lives than you ll ever know.
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Frustrations are completely warranted. Keep doing what you re doing. The amazing part of what you do and how you do it is that you have saved more lives than you ll ever know.
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