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[Industrial Toys]

People drive vehicles here for ten or even more years without requiring a safety. Maybe emmissions. Which became a joke after they stopped sniffing what was actually coming out the tailpipe.

 

[two_bit_score]

I dunno...I'd like to know that the vehicle coming the other way has working brakes, a front end that doesn't have 3" of slop in it, no holes in the floor that someone could fall thru (let alone allow CO in), etc.

I really could do without the emissions part of the inspection though. When they first instituted it here in N.H. there were only 10 communities that had to comply...Nashua and surrounding towns IIRC. At some point they required it state-wide. I see it primarily as a revenue source for the DMV.

Don’t depend on the MVI to guarantee “the vehicle coming the other way has working brakes, a front end that doesn't have 3" of slop in it, no holes in the floor that someone could fall thru (let alone allow CO in), etc.” unless they just left the inspection station and then only if the inspector didn’t just pass it ‘just because’.

Those are money generators for tickets, just a way to hassle people and provide a side hustle for oil change shops to sell wiper blades, bulbs and mufflers. The inspections are worthless and should be eliminated.



TBS

 

[Industrial Toys]

I remember I once bought a yellow police car for parts identical to the one I drove which had been a brown detective car. I had to get it up to the farm a hundred miles. So I put my plates on it and painted it with brown water based school type paint. Looked like primer.

It had bad floors and an exhaust leak, and I remember we kept nudging the dog sleeping on the back floor to see if it was still alive!

It would have been interesting if we had been stopped.

 

[KennyG]

Based on my experience, I'm skeptical of the value of vehicle inspections. We had truck inspections when I was young in Illinois. It mainly consisted of checking the lights and making sure you had the required flares and emergency reflectors. How many of you feel unsafe without flares and reflectors under the seat of your pickup?

I moved to Virginia and found that vehicle inspections were a business opportunity for the inspecting shops. If you had bad brakes and didn't want to fix them, just find a shop that didn't do brake work. Every place aligned headlights. I had to have my headlights aligned every 6 months the entire time I lived there. If you had your car inspected every day, you would have your headlights re-aligned every day. I haven't needed a headlight alignment since I moved out of the state.

 

[Jstpssng]

Don稚 depend on the MVI to guarantee 甜B]the vehicle coming the other way has working brakes, a front end that doesn't have 3" of slop in it, no holes in the floor that someone could fall thru (let alone allow CO in), etc. [/B] unless they just left the inspection station and then only if the inspector didn稚 just pass it 阻ust because?

Those are money generators for tickets, just a way to hassle people and provide a side hustle for oil change shops to sell wiper blades, bulbs and mufflers. The inspections are worthless and should be eliminated.



TBS

It's not that easy around here, most of the places like that have been closed down. The year that I graduated from HS one of my older brother's classmates put a sticker on a vehicle which he shouldn't have, and the vehicle's brakes failed the next day, causing a fatal accident when he T-boning another vehicle. I believe that he served jail time for manslaughter or a similar charge.

 

[LD48750]

At the very least, once a year people demonstrate that they have working brakes, halfway decent tires, semi solid frame, and their front end isn't about ready to fall apart.
In a perfect world it wouldn't matter, but some people don't have a clue how to keep their vehicle safe; while others just don't care.

And the fact that those people don't get into accidents caused by those terribly unsafe vehicles doesn't matter to you at all.
You STILL insist that they are going to KILL YOU.

Then the fact you are still alive & have never been hit by any of them ..........how does that happen????????


Why don't all the states that don't have these un-necessary inspections don't have more defective equipment accidents then your state?

 

[Code54]

Personally I LIKE that we have a state inspection. I have a great mechanic close by that does ours. He has some good stories of crazy stuff the has seen. I also personally know of people that basically had no brakes but didn't really understand/realize it until it was "found" at inspection. Costs us about $13 bucks and I could care less. A least it helps prevent some unsafe vehicles from being on the same roads as my family.

 

[Jstpssng]

And the fact that those people don't get into accidents caused by those terribly unsafe vehicles doesn't matter to you at all.
You STILL insist that they are going to KILL YOU.

Then the fact you are still alive & have never been hit by any of them ..........how does that happen????????


Why don't all the states that don't have these un-necessary inspections don't have more defective equipment accidents then your state?

Are you sure that they don't?

 

[LD48750]

Are you sure that they don't?

Can you show me they do?

 

[Jstpssng]

I'm not the one who says that they don't. I know of numerous accidents due to mechanical failure, including two which I have cited in this thread. This spring a state trooper was killed while helping a motorist who went off the road; he was struck by a tractor trailer tire and wheel which had come off a passing semi. A local man was seriously injured a couple of years ago when he hit a bump and the frame on his Subaru failed.

A question I've asked before, yet nobody has answered; even though you don't have inspections, are you still required to keep them safe?
If an officer hears metal on metal when you put on the brakes, is he allowed to pull you over and require that you get it fixed? If so, does it happen?