A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Car Inspection......

Today HD took my car to get it inspected. It passed and only had one light bulb to replace. Man got on the computer to recored it all, pressed the button and it was all entered. Then a sign popped up . It said to the man, Your License to test auto's has expired.. Ho Ho Ho ..Luck of ther Irish for sure. Now my car isnt inspected. He has to go to renew his License. Can you top that one? Gees. fortunately I have till end of march .

Only in America--Right ???

Yes only in America..
Your got it made in America.

I posted here yesterday but it seems that it disappeared.

Is it a requirement to have your car inspected Barb??

they don't inspect here anymore, but you are required to have insurance on it. And then through the year they sit up check points and write tickets if you have a bulb out or something else unsafe with the car.

State Law
Requires Inspection and Insurance, to drive and own a vehicle.
With out one, you cant have the other .

Crazy penna.

We have to have insurance but that is about it. If they pull you over for having a light out or something they will give you a warning first and then they eventually will give you a ticket if you don't get it fixed but that is about it! I sure am glad we don't have to have an inspection. Just one more thing to pay for!!

Wow, I didn't know there were states that don't require inspection on vehicles.

I know that we have to have ours inspected here in MD. And I believe in WV they have to have it done once a year.

I mean it isn't fun paying for repairs when you fail inspection but I think that in theory it's a good idea to make sure everyone is running a safe vehicle.

One thing they dont want is folkd in puddle jumpers riding down the highway and causing accidents.. The highways would be littered with junk autos.. Our police tag any car settin on the road too long .
It is helpful in that respect.......And probably safer.

i AGREE

they use to do inspections here, but they don't anymore. I',m not sure when they stoppe, but I figure they make more money doing these spot inspections

They tag cars sitting on the highway here too.

We have never had to have car inspections as far as I know. Not for as long as I have been driving anyways. I agree that it could be a good thing. Are we the only state that doesn't require it?? (Maybe others here can comment on whether they have to have it done or not )

they tag them here too and then after the third tag they haul it in

No car inspections here but we Do have to have insurance--at least liability.

And the Police tag cars in IL also.

Don't all states require insurance?

I just switched Mark to comprehensive coverage when he finally got his truck paid off....saving that little bit of money each month is nice. And I put mine from comprehensive to liability, because it's been broke down forever now and hasn't moved.

We carry full coverage on truck and car.. truck is 2002 and only about 15000 miles on it .. car is 2000 and 52,000.
However we pay $399. for 6 months for 2. That isnt so bad.

That is cheap Barb. We pay just about that much for EACH of our cars!

We don't have inspections here, but we do have emissions testing every 2 years. When you go to get your oil changed they test all your lights and turn signals for you but that's as close as we get to inspection.

we pay that for (or just about that) for each of ours too. Here you have to have at least the liabitiy. When I had one broke down for a while I cancelled the insurance. It was just sitting in the yard

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Yes we have the emission thingy with our yearly inspection. FOr a while we didnt. But the big cities did . I t is nice to see how the rest of the USA lives.
I guess each person thinks their state is the best..LOL

That is funny Barb! I don't by any means think our state is the best but I do agree that it is interesting to see how different things are for people all over the USA.

Cheap is definately the word, barb.

I pay like $657.00 for 2 cars for 6 months.
2000 blazer & a 2007 silverado. Full coverage & my insurance does not care about miles on the car.

We pay $810 a year for our 2 vehicles....with liabilty only on mine, and comprehensive on Mark. We don't have accidents against us, and we are supposedly getting pioneer discounts, and a discount for having our homeowners policy thru the company. Had the same company for 11 years now. I pay monthly from December to August, then we get Sept, Oct, Nov off from paying.

Our home owners is with the same company too--and I am supposedly getting a discount for having the anti-theft device on my car--BUt I think we are still paying alot!!!

Loz that does sound like ours.. No wrecks against us and deductions for the good record, and home owners ins.

b

My car is broke down, hasn't run forever and Mark thinks it's on it's last legs. It's an older Ford Probe. If you look in Gardeners Chat at the New Stuff topic you can sorta see it in the trellis pic, it's white. I might just give it to my nephew and see if he wants to fix it up.....at least that way we wouldn't be paying insurance on a vehicle that is not running right now.

When they say you are getting all of those discounts I think they are lying. Never seems like it's going down ever.

Ours has anti theft also.

I think you are right about the discounts. i think they just add that at the end AFTER the decide on the premium--so you will THINK you are paying less.

Like a few weeks ago--we get this letter from our car ins company in the mail telling all their customers that NOW they will be issueing multi policy discounts to their customers---

that would of been great news IF they had not of been telling me I was getting that very discount for at least 2 years now.

Don't you keep the slips ? Ours actually dropped from $429 to $399 this time?

Beats me. Our old one always added more an more each time. UP in price.


I agree all corrupt.

Well lookie there Dodge---They DID give me an extra discount. I paid $697.00 last time & $628.15 this time. thanks for making me look it up.

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