State inspection

What is there to ask? You can do it and get your sticker, but it is against the law and most states will fine you heavily if you get caught.

Why don't you just fix the beater?

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail >

If your looking for the law that shows you that it is illegal to tamper with the vehicle to evade an emissions test or that taking it to a different part of the state to get it inspected and evade the emissions test they are all on the Texas DOT site. The Federal statutes pertaining to emissions tampering are covered in the Clean air act.

Another thing is that they use the address of registration to determine the type of inspection needed. That gets punched into the computer and it tells them what testing needs to be done.

Crabby wrote:

I know emission laws have changed a lot since 1997, but from 1987 to

1997 I lived in Texas. My first five years I lived in Dallas County and the next five years I lived in Collin county, just north of Dallas County. (Bear with this snoozer of a story. There is a point to all of it) Anyway, emission sniffing was a joke at that time. Dallas county required it. Collin county required just a regular safety inspection every year and NOT the emission test. One thing I remember is that when your month was due for inspection the state would give you another 10 days before you got fined, so (being the tightwad that I was) I would always wait a few days after your inspection sticker was void and then I would have the car tested a few days into the next month. That way you would always get 13 months on your 12 month inspection sticker. Has that changed? ;-) In my ten years there, I got an extra 10 months free. When I moved to Collin county, I took my car in on a Saturday to have it inspected. My car was about 6th or 7th in line and I decided to wait to have it done. There was a 16 year old kid doing inspections that day and he was taking about 5 minutes per car. There was a big glass window between the waiting room and the inspection shop, so I watched him do a couple of inspections. He was driving the car in, taking a razor and scraping the old sticker off and applying a new one. I kid you not. His "inspection" was simply taking off and putting on a new sticker. And I paid $20 bucks for that....... Also, some populated counties were exempt from emission testing. If I recall right, El Paso was exempt from emission testing because they claimed all their pollution was drifting across the border from Mexico. Okay..... Then, in ~'96 or'97, the state was implementing centralized emission testing stations. The company building these was granted a multi-million dollar contract to build and run all of these. Too many people complained that they were too far away, had too take off work for the car inspection, etc., etc., and Texas dropped the centralized testing. The company that was awarded the contract sued the state and won and Texas had to pay them millions. Okay, I know a lot has changed in ten years and I'm sure it has been for the bettter. I just thought I'd tell a few of the stories that I remembered.

im an inspector in nc, and nc has tried to prevent people from getting any "free" months. they don't give any grace period, so if your sticker says sept., first day of oct. you can get a ticket. and we have to mark the new sticker with a date 1 year after the date the old sticker expired. unless it has been expired for a year or more. im not sure of what the laws are for the owner of a car that has a sticker from the wrong type of county, but i know the fines are steep for a shop that gets caught doing anything illegel during an inspection, for both the mechacic, and the shop. they are pickey as to penelties too. the even fine you for not opening the master cylinder to check the level, and quality of the fluid.

I know the system in Texas has changed in the last 10 years. But at the time, it was amusing. I still can't imagine a 16 year old kid inspecting a car, not now or then.