We don't need no stinkin stickers ..."
Posted on 06/25/2014 7:24:32 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
AUSTIN (AP/KXAN) — Come next March, Texas drivers will no longer be required to have an inspection sticker on their windshield.
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles is getting rid of inspection stickers. You still have to get an inspection, but that inspection will become tied with your registration.
Think of it as a marriage of your registration and your inspection stickers — with that marriage you’ll get one sticker and one anniversary. You won’t have to keep track of two dates.
Starting in March, the inspection stickers stop. You’ll have to get an inspection no more than 90 days before your registration expires — in order to register.
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The nice thing about going to these places is that there aren't too many things they can recommend that they can also do in the shop. Cuts down on the incentive to require unnecessary repairs.
Imho, these inspection stickers are nothing more than a money making enterprise for the state.
Glad to hear it. It was prevalent in the 1970s-early 1980s.
I live in Benton County, Washington State. I don’t need to get my car inspected at all. The only sticker I have tells me when to change the oil. Beat that, Texas.
You are right though. It was real racket back then. When my college roommate got an inspection at a little shell station, they used a blank sticker and wrote in the month number with a black magic marker. He found a state trooper parked at a convenience store, pulled in next to him, and asked if that was legal. DPS led everyone at that gas station away in handcuffs.
There is no penalty for having a late inspection, even months late.
This change though will make it more inconvenient than ever. No only must we get the physical inspection, but we must make a separate trip annually to the county assessor-collector’s office to pay an additional fee to have the passing inspection placed on a computer record. This will make things less efficient, more cumbersome, and cost more. But inspections have never been about safety any more than schools are about “the children.”
We don't need no stinkin stickers ..."
Imho, these inspection stickers are nothing more than a money making enterprise for the state.
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Yeppers. And cops have an eagle eye for the dates on them. If one sticker is expired - BOOM. They pull you over and write you up.
So some counties in Texas have both. Thanks for the info. I am stuck with three $25.00 emission tests every two years. My 2001 SVT Cobra gets driven about 1000 miles per year. Last test showed 0.000 CO emissions. What a waste.
Virginia had twice-a-year “safety” inspections for decades. Many gas stations had a two-tier system: pay $10 and they would conduct the inspection by the book. Pay $20 and they would slap a sticker on the windshield with no inspection. The blatant corruption of the system, plus several academic studies concluding that inspections did not increase auto safety, led to its welcome demise in the 1980s.
So which will dictate when your renewal is? I just did my registration for June (2014) but my current inspection (new truck) runs out next August....
That’s my understanding as well.
“Based on the article, I think your current one is good for 19 months (12+7).”
You can register the next cycle if yours expires but you still have to get inspection on cycle.
To get on the cycle, I will have to be inspected seven months from now. That makes my July 1 inspection (formerly good till Aug 1 2015) now good Feb 2015.
So I take it that new cars that used to have a two year inspection sticker will be cut back to one year. Dealerships used to put the two year inspection sticker on the windshield a few weeks after getting the new cars in stock. Buy a new vehicle six months later and it was only good for 18 months.
Why would they need inspection stickers in Texas...they don’t destroy your car with road salt.
Lodi?
One of the good things Jeb Bush did: got rid of vehicle emissions inspections. This is one of the few instances of a government program being completely shut down, proving that it can be done.
If the vehicle is old enough, 25yo, the emissions requirement goes away and the inspection is only $14. I have 2 - $14 and 2 - $34 stickers.
So you still need an inspection, you just don’t have an extra sticker. The one place that inspected motorcycles nearby had their certification pulled.
Now the nearest is about 45 miles away. I wouldn’t mind but they only inspect during my work hours.
If he did he would have bug splatter on his face. : )
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