I'm really glad that OK stopped the silly inspections. Just as another data point, I accompanied my daughter when she got her MA inspection after having lived there a year, and her car passed without an issue - pay the woman and leave.
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 2:03 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Inspections are a total racket set up for repair shops. > > I used to have to get inspections in Massachusetts and Texas, and they > would always find something wrong that they could then "repair." I > remember once taking the 79TD to get its inspection, and the guy failed > it for insufficient brake fluid. I had just filled it the day before, > having checked the car over for various things I figured they would jump > on. The fluid was halfway between "add" and "fill." So after waiting > around for an hour, paying the $35, I got into an argument with the shop > owner (whose daughter went to school with mine, so I figured I'd toss > him the business). Of course you can't get reinspected right away, you > have to come back tomorrow or later and pay some kind of reinspection > fee, and of course they had scraped off the old sticker which was > problematic. > > Next day I come back with the section printed off the workshop CD, > showed the guy, told him to give me the damn sticker now, no more > screwing around, but of course they need to redo the inspection (diesel > was exempt on the emissions aspect, so it was just a "safety" > inspection). So then he finds a wiper was bad and he wants to put a new > one on for like $15 parts and labor. Thing was, I had put on a new > wiper just recently, had the empty package in the back with the receipt, > so then we got into that. Finally I decided I would just stand around > while their bay was taken up, 3 or 4 other cars waiting, I finally > outlasted him and got the sticker and got out of there. > > Nothing he was "finding" compromised safety in any way, but for the > others who came through and ended up paying more for "repairs" it was > quite a racket. Massachusetts was even worse, those guys were vicious > because they knew there was absolutely nothing you could do about their > scams. > > --FT > > > On 12/4/18 2:37 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: > > Same is true in MD, where one car in 100 passes inspection - even new > ones. > > > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 12:59 PM fmiser via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> > > wrote: > > > >>> Mitch wrote: > >>> Just passed state inspection and is good for another 60 days... > >>> Missouri charges you to inspect your car every other month??? > >> No. But a "current" inspection is required to get new plates. > >> And an inspection is considered current for 60 days. If it's not > >> a new acquisition, then the inspection is every two years. > >> > >> _______________________________________ > >> http://www.okiebenz.com > >> > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >> > >> > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > -- > --FT > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- OK Don *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
