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Its the same all across NY, its not the inspection that costs $$ its the repairs to get the car to pass, when you THOUGHT the car was running fine. This is recent, in the past year or so, if your car is OK then your fine... but if it has a trouble code in it... and diagnostic labor is about $80/hr... it adds up quickly. ALOT of people are getting NASTY surprizes when they get inspections now... and all stations are the same, you get plugged into the DMV system... there is no way around it or to avoid it... if there is something wrong you fail. Keith ' > 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 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >