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A Pa. inspection covers brakes and tires, the wipers, turn signals, hi and lo beams, horn, cracks or not in windshield, and ragged/sharp/rusty body. Car has to have its bumpers and fenders, of course. Not sure if muffler system is part of it...but since that isn't about Safety of Other Drivers, I don't think so. I don't ever remember it being checked at an inspection. I think you have to have seatbelts installed. Not sure of that either. All those things are relatively easy, if not very easy, to check before going for an inspection. We will hear what the problem was, I hope. Anyway...(a spin into how politics affect so much), just today I saw a LEGALLY parked car in Philadelphia with a ticket on windshield. Because it was legally parked, I peeked at the ticket. The person was cited for Inspection Out of Date. That is...the Parking Authority checks even LEGALLY PARKED cars for things utterly irrelevant to parking and flow of traffic. They search your car's number, stickers and etc often without probable cause of any violation, with their ever-present computers, for out of date registration, inspection, and unpaid tickets (Car booted for more than 3). Why all this? Easy. Too many people bought the "tax cut" scam of certain public officials and VOTED for them. True. Therefore, municipalities all over the place need OTHER sources of revenue to run things. One way is...parking fees and tickets and fines etc. This is, of course, regressive taxation no matter what they call it...as are "fees" at virtually every other formerly PUBLIC place...museums, parks, forests, beaches, etc. I heard of some places where towns asked residents to PAY if they did NOT want pesticides sprayed in nearby woodlands etc! You need to pay a flipping "registration" "fee" to put your kyack into country ponds, creeks and rivers! Another reason for the parking harrassment is that Insurance Businesses...PRIVATE businesses...have gone beyond just bribing officials to push every "safety" law imaginable (except for industries, of course). They now openly give money to municipalities to do their bidding. See, in Pennsylvania, one cannot get registered UNLESS one has already purchased private insurance from a profiteering business. Idiotically, one cannot get one's car Safety Inspected without a) paying a FEE, and b) proof that you bought insurance from some private firm. In other words, big economic incentives are CREATED by moron officials to break laws and create public endangerment and disrespect for even legitimate laws. By the way, there's no Standard Rate. Rock-minimum basic car insurance is overwhelmingly more expensive in the POOREST neighborhoods (up to and beyond $2000, a YEAR!)...and LEAST expensive in the richest. Insurers say it's more risky in poor areas and officials say "yes sir". Backwards land. Because of unaffordable insurance for MANY people, this led to hundreds of thousands of cars, in this ONE STATE alone, lacking Safety Inspections...maybe w/out brakes, good tires, signals, etc etc, endangering everyone on or near the road...not to mention hundreds of thousands of drivers having a big motive (fines, jail, loss of vehicle, loss of job) to evade the cops and even commit hit and runs. The idea of a PUBLIC auto insruance program, w/ no profiteering allowed, that would cover everyone (except car thieves) just out of a percent of sales cost, a few cents at the pump, and a bit of annual registration, is an idea not on anyone's table. People can be responsible for their OWN insurance via a public program. We don't need insurers' "help". Insurers can then happilly sell extra insurance, beyond the legally required levels, as much as they want to whoever wants it. PS: That antique insurer rule about the antique auto not being your "primary car" means, yes...you have to have another REGISTERED car befor you can get car-2 registered as "antique". ______________________________________________________ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~