RLXXI

Last time I renewed my sticker was this past Monday, they checked everything, even opened the hood and made a quick test drive in the parking lot to check for brake pull. I issued brake tags my self about 30 years ago and the procedure was only a little different, back then we had to check headlight alignment and do a litmus paper test on the tail pipe to check for leaded fuel usage.

Are there lazy inspection station operators? A resounding yes but the state has been cracking down on them the past few years. They popped the one I go to all the time a couple years ago, huge fine and a watchful eye from that day forward.
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fordguy2100

Mine is even with the factory blue tint in the middle of my windshield and therefore comes down just below the AS1 line on the sides

blkZ28spt

What are these state inspections you speak of? Registered cars in two different states and this is a foreign concept to me. Like, the state inspects your car every year and you need a new sticker showing they approve it? That's a thing? And not in Cali?

RLXXI

It was once a year here in Louisiana for as long as I can remember, they just recently changed to every 2 years. It's a cash cow mostly to fill the states coffer's. Alabama didn't have them when I lived there 15 years ago.

List of states that do not have safety, emissions, or VIN inspections as follows.

Alaska
Arkansas
Iowa
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Montana
North Dakota

This is what my sticker looks like.



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fordguy2100

Indiana should be on that list too. We don't have to do anything and while sometimes I appreciate it other times I see the heeps of junk that should not be allowed on the road for the drivers safety and others... but in the end I much prefer not having inspections.

RLXXI

I have no idea when that list was dated, state laws change all the time. I hear ya about the garbage still rolling around on public hwy's when they should be used for scrap recycling. When I was in bama the unbelievable crap I saw on the roads gave me nightmares.

I don't mind paying to make sure that crap stays off our roads.
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fordf150platinum

Here in Florida we don’t have any emissions, inspections or anything like that. I believe it was 1999 or somewhere around that year that they ended it

BMack37

Yup, I've never had any emissions or inspections in FL. I remember going with my Dad once when I was a little kid in FL but it was gone before I started driving...I always forget it's a thing in other states.

blkZ28spt

There are also (seemingly a lot of) states that only have emissions, or only have emissions in a handful of counties and nothing in the rest of the state.

And FWIW most emissions tests are OBDII plug in so as long as you have no engine light and no incomplete monitors, you pass...even if you have no catalytic converters...or so a friend once told me...I, uh, surely wouldn't know first hand...

Indiana is one of the states I just referenced, ha. Lake County (not sure how many others, but not many I"m sure) had/has emissions. But, only OBDII plug in, no visual...at least that's how it was when my friend didn't have cats on his LS1 F-body

fordguy2100

Must be an old list cause it's been that way for at least the last 40yrs lol

Yeah not sure... if he's up by Gary they do things a little different but I have never heard of anyone in Indiana needing any sort of inspection. I highly doubt one county would be different than the entire state but who knows... politics is a crapshoot lol.

You go to the DMV hand them money and they give you a plate... as long as they get money they are happy lol. Then just keeping paying registration fees every year and the sticker for your plate keeps coming.

Only thing I know Indiana does is a VIN check on out of state purchased vehicles. When I bought my 74 from Texas, when I went to title it in my name they had to check the vin since it came from out of state.