PA State Inspection

[theleisure]

It passed! My heaterless car is now legal in Pennsylvania. I'm pretty happy about it.

 

[tao724]

Yinz did good

 

[regularman]

Luckily, NC exempts cars once they are over 35 years old. No grease monkey touching my midget. Most have no idea about the car, can't even change the gears, work the pedals or put them up on a rack without damage.

 

[tao724]

BTW: I like how your wiper blade rides so straight over the windshield rubber. (most are angled 10 to 30 degrees).

 

[DrEntropy]

It used to be a real trial to get my LBC's inspected in PA. I found the "right place" after coming back from the military and moving into Sewickley. :wink:

 

[theleisure]

I took it to Boffo motors in new Brighton. Anybody that recognizes that name could tell you that the "grease monkey" experience that Kimm described above would never happen there. Jim boffo used to have an Austin, mg, british leyland dealership in the same location.

 

[Guest]

Luckily, NC exempts cars once they are over 35 years old. No grease monkey touching my midget. Most have no idea about the car, can't even change the gears, work the pedals or put them up on a rack without damage.

You poor guys !!!! All it takes here is $5 and they fill it out before they even look at the car !!!!

Emmisions-Smissions.....if the car runs good enough to get there, it PASSES !!!!

They have cracked down a bit......now they actually have to walk outside!

Nobody touches my cars either....

($5 is the cost of the sticker, not a bribe)


Like I said before, if you can get past the culture shock, it's not a bad place to live.

 

[bugimike]

Yinz did good, now red it up an' ride!! :thumbsup:

 

[Sarastro]

What does the inspection in PA consist of? When I was a kid (Philadelphia) they checked the lights, took off one wheel and checked the brake linings, and that was pretty much it. Had to do the ritual twice a year.

Here in CA, we have only emissions inspection, and that applies only to 1976 and later cars.

 

[racingenglishcars]

Luckily, NC exempts cars once they are over 35 years old. No grease monkey touching my midget. Most have no idea about the car, can't even change the gears, work the pedals or put them up on a rack without damage.

You poor guys !!!! All it takes here is $5 and they fill it out before they even look at the car !!!!

Emmisions-Smissions.....if the car runs good enough to get there, it PASSES !!!!

They have cracked down a bit......now they actually have to walk outside!

Nobody touches my cars either....

($5 is the cost of the sticker, not a bribe)


Like I said before, if you can get past the culture shock, it's not a bad place to live.

Please see here!
https://en.cop15.dk/

 

[JPSmit]

Not sure what I'm looking for Donn?

 

[DrEntropy]

I took it to Boffo motors in new Brighton. Anybody that recognizes that name could tell you that the "grease monkey" experience that Kimm described above would never happen there. Jim boffo used to have an Austin, mg, british leyland dealership in the same location.

Heheeee!!!! I've known Jim for YEARS (about forty, actually). One of the finest gentlemen on the planet, too.

He and his brother raced Mini's and were C-Sedan National champs back inna day. Any time I sojourn up to the old homestead, he is one of the few folk I make it a point to visit.

 

[racingenglishcars]

I just think I wanted to make the point that some people are working very hard to be environmentally conscious, trying to get people to understand that we can not keep just blowing all the exhaust gas and pollutants into the atmosphere without regard. I don't want to use derogatory language so I only give reference to what other people are doing. Statements like

"Emmisions

-Smissions

.....if the car runs good enough to get there, it PASSES !!!!"

belong in the past and certainly not in a forum where people are trying to find information about getting their cars working properly.

Don't even get me started on the safety aspect of inspection stations. Just remember that there is a reason for the inspections, and to take them lightly could not only mean your own life, but the lives of completely innocent people nearby.

 

[DrEntropy]

The Pennsylvania inspection process ~IS~ about safety and emissions. He took it to a place where the work is VERY diligently performed.

As for MS inspection, I've no direct experience but it would seem to me the shops doing the inspection would be less-than motivated to do the work for whatever part of five bucks they get...

but that falls under the issue of "States' Rights" as well.

I just think I wanted to make the point that some people are working very hard to be environmentally conscious, <span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">trying to get people to understand that we can not keep just blowing all the exhaust gas and pollutants into the atmosphere without regard.</span></span>

"...without regard"? That's not happening any longer. There's where F.I. and fuel management on autos, "scrubbers" on industrial chimneys, water processing on effluent outlets, etc. have already come to exist.


And sayin' much about what that link to COP15 does to buck up the example of the hard work some people are doing and what it aims at accomplishing will put this thread straight into the bin.

Matter o' fact, it likely already has.

 

[KSIS]

My NYS inspection consisted of me driving my car into the bay, showing the mechanic the lift points, Doing my own under body inspection as I answer his questions about the car.
We brought it down and lifted the hood. Then everyone in the shop came over for a peak. When I latched the hood, the inspection was over. He asked me if everything looked good, I said YEP!

 

[vagt6]

In VA if you purchase antique vehicle tags your car is exempt from state inspections. Good thing. This resulted from from some diligent lobbying and hard work in the state capitol by car enthusiasts, antique car clubs and car-friendly state legislators. A lot of folks were involved.

One of the legislators who helped pass the legislation owns and drives a beautifully restored Triumph TR3. He's retired now but attends many of the local LBC shows, and wins lots of awards.

He helped with the legislative effort because he knows that antique cars are <span style="text-decoration: underline">not</span> a significant part of the pollution/safety problem on our highways. Antique car enthusiasts tend to take very good care of their engines, which of course minimizes pollution.

Virginians who love their antique cars got the state inspection exemption the old-fashioned way: <span style="font-style: italic">we earned it</span>.

 

[Guest]

I just think I wanted to make the point that some people are working very hard to be environmentally conscious, trying to get people to understand that we can not keep just blowing all the exhaust gas and pollutants into the atmosphere without regard. I don't want to use derogatory language so I only give reference to what other people are doing. Statements like

"Emmisions

-Smissions

.....if the car runs good enough to get there, it PASSES !!!!"

belong in the past and certainly not in a forum where people are trying to find information about getting their cars working properly.

Don't even get me started on the safety aspect of inspection stations. Just remember that there is a reason for the inspections, and to take them lightly could not only mean your own life, but the lives of completely innocent people nearby.

once again....it's all my fault.

(did I fail to mention the fact that I DON'T WORK THERE !!!!)

Without getting into a politcal debate, you can spin anything anyway you like.

Me, I'm VERY environmentally conscience.

See...my car puts out CO2...some think more than most.

This is a GOOD thing as plants NEED CO2.

CO2 creates a "greenhouse" effect...which is great as it'll help the plants grow EVEN BETTER...especially now that they have all this "extra" CO2.

Plants like warm green houses and CO2...right?

Now this polar ice cap thing...that SOUNDS BAD...until you consider that all these plants that are growing so well now NEED MORE WATER!!! Folks are having a water shortage out west, might as well give them a sip or two. As an added benifit, there is CO2 trapped in the icecaps..which'll only make it warmer and plants heathier..which'll only make the plants grow EVEN MORE !!! Hope we have enough water !!!!

We should be overrun by vegitation in the next 5-10 years. Folks should start droppin' dead from lack of O2 anyday now too....

Like I said, you can spin anything. You say it's bad...I say it's good.
After all, if I'm endangering innocent bystanders...then you must want to kill ALL of us by starving plants to death. Somone gave me a sticker and I'm trying to kill people.......

~THAT'S~ not a stretch !!!!!

Oh, I'm a licensed dealer here...and...BY LAW...we're NOT REQUIRED to have inspection stickers on our cars.....AND I DON'T !!! I must be a mass murderer or serial killer !!!! Guess it's all them assalt rifles I have...

BTW we've had snow here TWO YEARS IN A ROW and earlier than ever. This is UNHEARD OF here.....which I'm sure is my fault too. I better go scrape that sticker off before the world ends.....must be from all that Global warming from MY car.


OH, and do you know WHY it's so laxed down here?????
1. MS has FAR FEWER cars on the road.
2. There ARE NO EMMISIONS TESTS HERE!!!!!
3. PEOPLE HERE ARE TOO POOR TO COMPLY IF THEY HAD THEM !!!!

you aint against the poor folks....are ya ?!?!?!?!?!

.....sumptin' tells me you ~SAY~ you aint......

I wonder who polutes more, my little '79, or a vintage car race ???

You would think with a screen name of "racingenglishcars", "carbon footprint" wouldn't be an issue....unless that English race car is electric.......which I doubt....



(Oh...and don't forget....NO POLITICAL STUFF HERE !!!!!)

 

[Deleted member 8987]

When I was an Emmissions Specialist here in The Other Washington, we fought the bastards.....they wanted to suddenly go back to 1968 and inspect cars they had not been inspecting.
Things like Fiats, with their obtuse emissions controls rotted off and laying alongside the highway years prior....

Anyway, the WA morons took their cue from the California Head Morons at CARB.....who had decided that "old cars produced emissions, new cars did not", and had credits for mass polluters if they would buy (and scrap) "old" cars....

So, California set up this big roadside media event.

Portable emissions testing equipment, and CHP.....

Pulled over a mom in her environmentally-current soccer-mom-coach.......all the media cameras going....and it failed.

Ooops.

Next car, Yuppie in his new, low emissions small car......failed.

About this time, the bureaucrats are getting edgy....

So, they see this 1973 Cadillac coming down the road.

Ah-HA!

Pulled him over.
Passed.

That caused a major re-think in emissions....our state went from testing 1968 and newer to a sliding scale of 25 years old and newer.

Older cars tend to be BETTER maintained than new ones.

Now, an ancilliary to the story:

As a Washington State Emissions Specialist, we got invited to events just for said specialists.

Had an evening meet at a testing facility.

"Bring your own car, we will hook it up and show you how the entire process works".

So, I took my 1950 Ford Tudor with a Flathead V-8.

Them freaking morons were rolling on the floor laughing.

"It will never pass!"

Shut them up.....and I still have the copy of the test results in the glove box.....marked "pass".

I remember when the "official" mentality was diesels did not pollute......

Finally, they started looking at "particulate" matter, and "oops!".

 

[losmorob]

California had the sliding 25 year rule. But now it's "frozen" at 1976 or newer. You should see the difference in used car prices between a '75 model vs a '76 model.

 

[jlaird]

Yep, looks good, how about a ride??