My Experiance with Watkins Shepard!

Geez and I always complained about just having to get my cars smogged every 2 years out here in Cali. Didn't know all the hassles you had to go thru back east. Guess I had it easy lol.

 

They had the same issues with smog stuff here in Cali a while back. It used to be when you smogged your car they gave you a certificate to take in to the DMV. Now its sent electronically.

 

A car or light truck can not get a new sticker in NC unless it has a current, fresh, inspection. The inspection goes into the system, and is checked electronically at the tag office. You can not get around it. You only have so much time arter the first attempt to repair the problem without penalities. A car dealer must inspect a car before it is offered for sale. It does not matter if you had your car inspected this morning, and traded it in the evening, the dealer must have it inspected again.

This is something to think about when buying a 1996 and newer car from an individual. There may be several hundreds of dollars of things wrong with the emission system that keeps the car from passing inspection. Instead of repairing the car, they dis-connect the battery to reset the check engine light. You buy the car, go to get it inspected, and bam, you're out who knows how much. At least with a dealer, the car must pass inspection. Re-setting the ECM doesn't get by the inspection process. The engine has to run through all it's test and drive cycles, and show no codes present, before it will pass.

 

i think it was july when they got the inspection synced with the dmv. i THINK i herd that on the news and i was like thet's when my tags expire.

 

colorado is awesome, i just register everything to a friends house in a county without emissions. if we had full on inspections, well i would probably be walking everywhere.

 

Yeah, I moved to NC from SoCal (couldn't stand more than 8 years in SoCal) and figured most things would be cheaper, then I started getting raped by the state and county because I owned a couple cars.

 

Yeah here in Fl as long as it rolls it's legal! If they put an inspection law into effect 80% of the population wouldn't be driving! You should see some of the crap rolling down the interstates down here!

 

That is why when buying a car from a private sale or a mom and pop lot, you have to test drive the thing for at least 15 minutes or so. That CEL will come right back on and you'll know if you are dealing with a dishonest buyer. Even going to Autozone and reading the codes with the seller in the car is better than risking that.