Speaking of DMV inspection
 

my friend failed at state inspection with his STOCK (not a THING changed from the factory) STI for:

his "aftermarket hood scoop" which apparently measured (the way they did it) over the legal height.

and his "aftermarket wing" which was an obstruction of view.

He had to stay at the inspection station arguing for an hour telling them to call subaru and verify everything since they refused to believe it was unmodified :lol:

maybe ill stick to CT emissions rather then do inspections lol

OMG!! Apparently these people at the inspection station have nothing better to do then nit-pick on stupid ****!

It's not even nit-picking, its ignorance. That's even worse.

kudos to your friend for fighting back. hopefully they learned that they are not always right

ya dude the dmv station good F up a wet dream!:-x

my buddy went in there his s-10 and it had an aftermarket steering wheel and they swore that it was too small to be legal when in fact it was well in the legal limit...so they argued untill the guy at the DMV actually measured the wheel! made him look like a total idiot:rofl:

yeah I hate dmv. When I first got my Camaro it failed for emissions. The guy said fix it and come back. He was a really nice guy. Well it turned out my cat was bad. So I replaced it and returned and got some b****h women. They failed me again cause they said my trans indicator was missing. :evil: I told them that the last time they didnt say anything about it and she told me its up to the individual inspector. Thats BS.......

uhh, they didnt like the LED side marker bulbs in my GF's maxima.

i failed for laminating my insurance card once..... :shrug:

the dmv is just a dinosaur plain and simple...old and not willing to change....they have no competition so they dont give a damn about better service

this is why all my inspections are done at garages it may be 60 bucks but i always pass

first time i failed in my bird...emissions, tires, parkin brake, shift indicater off, horn not workin, blinkers didnt work....now i fixed it all and passed through a body shop. i passed legally toooo!!!!!!

3 words... brake petal pad :banghead:

I think about this once in a while since my Formula taillights have black spiderweb stripes. I know it is illegal to put stripes or covers over stock taillights, and I'm amazed I never had inspection issues with my stock taillights with stripes.

are you kidding? that is total bs, i hate the dmv and inspections and everything that goes with it. They tried to fail my cavalier for an exhaust leak....when the the exhaust was so new it still had the tags on it and the inside of the pipe didnt have carbon build up yet....AFTER the idiots looked under the car i passed.

Had a 94 Ranger and went to inspection in 2000 after having my brakes done. DMV failed me because the brakes were grabbing too hard. ?????????WTF?
I had a problem 2 years ago when I went to get my motorcycle inspected. The inspector tried to fail me because I didn't have a visor on my helmet. I told her I'm on a cruiser not a crotch rocket. Then she gave me crap @ my eyewear. I had a pair of shop glasses. She told me they were no good. I told her they were ok according to OSHA and she could shove it. She came back 5 min later with my sticker. Yeah, FU:twisted:

DMV = mega crap

that isn't even an issue with the car!

It's too bad the Ridgewood inspection station shut down. From my experience they were the best.

Negative. The old bastard there said that my car was too loud, and that it didn't matter that the tenafly cops said it wasn't. His own words, with my dad as my witness: "The cops are wrong"

When I had taken James' car that started all this talk, they took the registration and insurance, which both say Firebird, and then looked at the side decals, which say Trans Am, and were questioning the discrepancy. The guy who failed it for being too loud was the one questioning it, though he didn't ask me, he asked his coworker.

I just laughed. If that's what it failed for that would have been even funnier, lol.

ridgewood owned! my 88 failed emmisions there, i brought it back with a new O2 sensor and i pulled in n the old guy said his son in law has the same car. i failed emisions again that day, but when i got to the end of the line he goes to me, yea it failed emmisions over there, but it passed over here, as he slapped a new sticker on :)

they dont know the name is technically a Firebird Trans Am ? wow. you'd think after what 30-some years of the car being actually produced they'd get that right

my blood boils everytime i read these stories about the inspection people. everytime i pass by it, i see red. my blood's not boiling because of your stories, but because of how those stupid mother effin' inspection people are..

X2. The ignorance cup runneth over sometimes.

Well, the DMV was always place to be feared. Lines extending to eternity, waiting years to have your named called just for a new license, very rude workers. But that's been fixed. At least in my recent experience, it's gotten a lot better. The last few times I was there to renew registration or my license, I was in and out. Maybe if people do something, write to congress, file complaints, something...maybe we can get the inspection stations fixed.