Last I checked, Illinois only requires emissions testing every two years, and that’s about it.
Edit: Great simulpost!
Just wait until you see the roaches crawl out of the hoarders car.
I’ve seen that a couple times. <shudder> Usually its a car full of fast food trash. I saw one car that had at least thirty burger bags in it.
This one seems clean, with clean papers (mishelved documents) and weird items mixed in (water bottles, some small boxes, and other stuff, but no garbage that I can see).
I wonder what would happen if a rear window was left cracked during a storm. All that paper would get water logged, then mildewed. Yuck.
Print up some “FREE CAR” posters, giving its location, make and model, and post them throughout your city.
I think Free Hat posters would be better.
Rats. I saw it on Pimp My Ride. The girl had rats living in her car.
I should think so. After all, those babies attacked Hat. He was just defending himself.
Yeah, and you get that many babies together and they’re like piranha.
Closest California comes to a required inspection is the smog check, which is biannual or when the car changes hands. Oregon (at least when I lived there) had no inspection requirement at all that I ever heard of.
It blows my mind too. NY is incredibly anal about the car stuff but I am grateful in the end.
Was she buried in a sweet ass Marlboro jacket?
Oregon requires smog checks, but I don’t know the specific rules. I was visiting cousin there about a year ago. She had just had her car shipped over from Hawaii. (Arrived at port of Oakland; I drove it up there.) Had to smog check to register car in Oregon. But if there are smog check stations, then there must be some regular testing requirements for all cars there.
How are newer cars smog checked these days anyway? Do on-board sensors just keep statistics, to be uploaded to the smog check computer? Here’s how they smog checked cousin’s car: Plugged in a wire from smog check computer to a socket under the dashboard. Fifteen seconds later, unplugged it. Check completed.
I really can’t believe there are states that do not require vehicle safety inspections. I guess I’m so used to New England states that do.
So basically, in states not requiring inspections, you can drive around on completely bald tires?
What about brakes that are within 1/64" of failure?
Man, my driving world just got scarier.
You can, but you’d be an idiot to. I’m reminded of the Christian notion of atheist morality - “What? Without God, what stops you from murdering people and fornicating with barnyard animals?” Umm…the fact that I’m a decent human being, perhaps?
We do have a vehicle code, of course, and it covers brakes and tires and more. But yes, we rely on the cars’ owners to maintain their vehicles. You can’t drive on bald tires legally, but enforcement is pretty much dependent on a police officer noticing your bald tires and issuing you a ticket. If they’re truly bald and a clear and present danger to the public, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d seize the vehicle and impound it immediately, but I’ve never had bald tires, so I can’t swear to it.
As I read it, Rhode Island is every two years, and Connecticut only requires emissions inspection, not safety. Be careful out there.
We only inspect commercial vehicles in Arizona. You can still get equipment violations - I got one for a cracked taillight some years ago - but there are no inspection requirements unless you’re trying to convert a salvage title into a reconstructed title or getting a VIN for a homemade vehicle.
What are the stats when it comes to accidents caused by passenger vehicle equipment failure that compulsory inspections would have caught? Obviously there are some, but I’m wondering how many, and how many relative to accidents not caused that way?
Again, that blows my mind. There are plenty of wear items on a car, that at failure could affect the car’s safety (ball joints, tie rod ends, etc…). I highly doubt owners inspect these things themselves.
Oregon didn’t require this in the early 90s, but that’s my most recent data point from that state (moved to California in 1994).
When I took the car for smog check last summer, some very noisy thing called a “dynamo” was involved, and there was some sort of tester gadget (I didn’t watch the process and am not that mechanically ept anyway) that measured the composition of what was exiting the tailpipe. They did also check the car’s on-board computer for any error codes.