Re: [T3] PA safety inspection

[Aaron Clow <lists@tiserves.com>]

<x-flowed>Keith Park wrote:

> In NY... if your car is 96 or newer, it gets plugged into a system for
> inspection that checks for trouble codes etc.... if you car was serviced
> recently, it will fail, if it doesnt interface with the computer properly,
> even if it works fine, it will fail.  and dont even THINK about driving in
> with a taped over check engine light!!  ALOT of inspections are costing
> people hundreds or even thousands of dollars to pass.
>
> But happily.. with all my older cars, I pass with no problems.  I swore Id
> never own a car with a check engine light.... but I caved and my new 93 RX7
> has one... but I will NEVER own a 96 or newer big brother car!

Keith, I think you need to find a new inspection station. I mostly drove 
second-hand junkers until I got my 96 Jetta and even when I lived in 
Queens (the height of city bureaucracy), I think the most I ever paid 
for them to pass my inspection was a new set of brake pads and rotors 
for like $300-400.

Since then I've driven all cars newer than 1996, right now a 2003 
Forester and a 2005 Saab, and in the past ten years I have never paid 
anything over the inspection fee for them to pass my vehicles. Things 
may be different in upstate NY, but here on Long Island, where we 
normally *expect* to get fleeced by local government (I won't get into 
the republican corruption that has led Long Island into the ditch over 
the past 20-30 years), the one thing it seems like people *don't* get 
fleeced on is their auto inspections.

Unless there's some serious emission problems, or people haven't really 
taken care of their engines at all, generally it's "pass..."

Aaron

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