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Final version of bill to end vehicle inspections heads to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk (Texas to end vehicle inspections)
Texas Standard ^ | 5/29/2023 | Sean Saldana

Posted on 05/29/2023 6:15:38 PM PDT by vespa300

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To: Chad C. Mulligan

They don’t require annual inspection but pretty sure cops can pull you over and declare a vehicle unsafe at any time


81 posted on 05/29/2023 8:49:36 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Recompennation
I don’t know how happy you should be about lost jobs repairing and maintaining automobiles. The byproduct will be a reduction of safety on the highways.

IMO, Texas went too far when it linked the state vehicle inspection system with the vehicle registrations. The result is now vehicle year-model driven, with an OBD computer scan being mandatory on cars so equipped.

Lots of cars can't "pass" a state inspection because their owners are waiting months to get the parts needed to extinguish the "Check Engine Light". Therefore, they can't proceed to re-register the car for the coming year. Some beancounter probably raised the alarm over drop in registration payments.

Perhaps the *emissions* inspection should be removed from the Texas process. The damned CEL is mostly to tell you that something related to emissions control needs service, not that there's an unsafe condition. Keep the safety inspection part (tires, brakes, wipers, horn, etc.) and let people proceed with their registrations based on that.

82 posted on 05/29/2023 8:59:23 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Nik Naym

OMG!! What we would do without inspections!!! /sarc.

Since the 20’s, people did their own inspections. If the car was NOT road ready, people fixed the issues and made it road ready! Like somebody else said, it is just a money grab by the state governments. They should have added, that emission inspections be eliminated.


83 posted on 05/29/2023 9:07:50 PM PDT by ktw (72 ID, Finally Retired after 25 years!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
No brakes, bald tires, broken lights—what could possibly go wrong?

You can be pulled over for those without an inspection.
84 posted on 05/29/2023 9:32:05 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Fai Mao
On Guam only cars over three years old have to be inspected.

Most cars in Texas are WAY over three years old.
85 posted on 05/29/2023 9:32:50 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: Reno89519

I think they can still pull you over for driving a junker.


86 posted on 05/29/2023 9:34:26 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: marktwain

You can’t re-register your car until it’s passed inspection.


87 posted on 05/29/2023 9:35:30 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: vespa300

Vehicle inspections are racist.

In my blue state, democrats love their vehicle inspections which are just about guaranteed to add $1500 to the price of an older cheap used car, thus keeping poor and poor minorities out of the America as n dream.


88 posted on 05/29/2023 9:45:58 PM PDT by cyclotic
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To: vespa300

In Illinois, the 6-county area around Chicago requires emission inspections. I now live 6 miles outside that area, so it’s been years since I needed to go through that.


89 posted on 05/29/2023 10:29:21 PM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: Revel
This is actually pretty stupid because so many people will keep driving until something breaks. Tie rod ends letting go can kill people.

Oh the humanity!

I used to do vehicle inspections when I worked as a mechanic. It's a money grabbing scam, it makes nothing any safer. The amount the mechanic made from doing the inspection was so low that we didn't actually look at anything, no one is going to put a vehicle on a lift and check tie rod ends when they're making $5, it's not worth the time. The real reason for it was the state made $50 if you were caught with an expired inspection sticker, which was very easy to let lapse. Thank God they did away with that BS.

90 posted on 05/29/2023 11:10:38 PM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: vespa300

I live in IL and we got rid of that 40 yrs ago


91 posted on 05/29/2023 11:27:11 PM PDT by roving (👌⚓)
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To: Revel

haha! Do you seriously think they inspect the tie rods? It is a dumb nanny state waste of time and money. Good riddance. I’m having a hard time believing people support this.


92 posted on 05/29/2023 11:47:22 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: Reno89519

Texas probably ALREADY has very high rates.

Renewed 21 May for 6 months: $2634 for 2001 and 2017 autos.

Had same agent and company for 25 years, with NO claims filed.

Reason for the high rates = accidents in the DFW area of Texas. Rural residents are probably much lower.


93 posted on 05/30/2023 2:42:39 AM PDT by octex
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To: Irish Eyes
Inspection of tires and brakes should be manditory.

I'd add headlights, brake lights, and turn signals.

But that's it.

94 posted on 05/30/2023 3:17:33 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: cableguymn
Minnesota doesn’t inspect cars. You should see the junk on the roads

I watch the "Just Rolled In" channel on YouTube. Basically, it's a mechanic documenting the horribly unsafe cars that come into his shop, the criminally bad work by other "mechanics", and the stupid and dangerous stuff that owners do to their vehicles. Here's a sample...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYeSaW6d5c4

Yeah, I don't like mandatory inspections, but I always take care of my vehicles. But many people don't, and even when their vehicles are showing unmistakable symptoms of major problems, they keep driving them.

95 posted on 05/30/2023 3:54:23 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Soros on assisting the Nazis with the Holocaust: "That's when my character was made.")
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To: vespa300

Mississippi did it a few years ago - I haven’t seen any problems caused by it and there’s a lot less hassle trying to find a place to do the inspections...


96 posted on 05/30/2023 4:47:02 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: BobL
high car insurance rates

Somebody's got to pay for those irritating, non-stop Progressive and Liberty Mutual ads.

97 posted on 05/30/2023 4:58:12 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it. )
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To: roving

>>>I live in IL and we got rid of that 40 yrs ago>>>

Well, according to the alarmnists here, who resemble the hysterics we see on the LEFT about things like guns, your going to have all kinds of problems. LOL.....right.


98 posted on 05/30/2023 5:10:44 AM PDT by vespa300
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To: Wayne07

>>>haha! Do you seriously think they inspect the tie rods? It is a dumb nanny state waste of time and money. Good riddance. I’m having a hard time believing people support this.>>>

FR can be a bizarre place sometimes. People supporting more Government hassle. And it is people on their phones that are causing most of the accidents these days. Not bald tires or bad brakes or wind shield wipers. Everybody is on their phone and that is why I no longer ride a motorcycle.

Bald tires is causing all the accidents right? sure........


99 posted on 05/30/2023 5:14:45 AM PDT by vespa300
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To: GaryCrow

Bingo!! Thanks.


100 posted on 05/30/2023 5:16:02 AM PDT by vespa300
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