do they have annual safety inspections on cars where you live?

 

When I moved to PA in 1999, I was shocked that people told me, "Yeah you can get a coupon and it's only $60."

I moved from NYS where it was $14.

Today, for the 21st year in a row, I got yet another car inspected. Yes, she passed, as I maintain our cars and likely I would not take it in if destined to fail, at least not knowingly.

My feeling it's a scam, so we try to pay as little as we can. I clipped a coupon for $29.95, and after taxes it was $43.

I once went to a Toyota dealer in 2016 and they charged $76, had nowhere to sit so I stood up, in a crowded dealership.

I also go to BMW where they provide a loaner car and charge $40.

The above imho is an example of how the more well off one is, the less one generally pays.

It's all fine and dandy when you're like the average Joe who never drives a car older than 36 mos. old. But our cars are 1998-2011, so it's just not a pleasant thing to head into an inspection.

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plus emissions

plunder wrote:

Some states, like PA apparently, do complete safety checks. Other states, like Ohio, do just emissions testing.

Phil

Sometime back any station doing PA emissions testing had to buy more intensive equipment if they wanted to continue doing the tests. A guy I know who owns a shop said the upgrade was in the 10's of thousands of dollars in cost. They had to make up that cost so, higher prices. The emissions tests cost me (out of pocket) over twice the actual safety inspection. The safety inspection is more work.

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Washington State

Washington state is stopping vehicle emission testing as of 1/1/2020. Actually it was only several counties (Clark, King, Pierce, Snohomish and Spokane counties) within the state that had to go through the test and pay the $15 fee. This was started as an air quality concern and not safety related.

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