Anyone know where my best bet would be to get my car passed for state inspection with illegal tint?

5/10/2006 3:03:31 PM

search - this has been covered numerous times

5/10/2006 3:04:29 PM

make it unilligal

5/10/2006 3:07:17 PM

######## they passed my 20%

[Edited on May 10, 2006 at 4:21 PM. Reason : .]

5/10/2006 4:01:42 PM

^this guy is shear genious.
Care to get rid of that comment?

5/10/2006 4:11:36 PM

^^asshole

5/10/2006 4:12:36 PM

any shop with high turnover like that will pass a lot of things that they aren't supposed to, it can't be stopped. there is always another shop down the street. I had the same question, but i just went to the mechanics in the shops and outright asked them if they would pass it. the first said no, and the second said yes.

i seriously doubt that would have had any effect at all. but, it seemed to create a stink so it's edited.

5/10/2006 4:25:37 PM

cops read this message board very often - that's why they said what they did

5/10/2006 4:26:45 PM

n00bs fuckin shit up for everyone

5/10/2006 4:29:20 PM

it just seems unlikely that thats a priority, and how would anything be proven, short of going through the customer list and going to each customers home and checking their tint to see if it was "illegally" passed?

5/10/2006 4:32:59 PM

u dumbshit. if some one does something illegal to help you dont broadcast in public. goddamn for being 23 you should be smarter

5/10/2006 4:36:28 PM

it could be proven by sending a decoy in with illegal tint, and when they pass it, they are busted.

5/10/2006 4:40:18 PM

The DMV sends cars in undercover. If the store does not catch everything, there are penalties. If you brodcast the info, their rate of being inspected will go up, and they will start passing less.

5/10/2006 4:41:06 PM

its not like we're broadcasting a murder here. and, its the people that work there that pass it. these places will always have employees who don't care, and when they fire them for something, they get replaced with...... you guessed it someone else who doesn't care. i could say that every chain shop that i've ever been to passed my tint. is there going to be a statewide investigation?

Plus if it was really such a big deal, the past few times that i have been stopped by cops, they would have tested my windows then, and looked to see where i had my inspection.

5/10/2006 4:45:46 PM

Do you think every cop car has a meter in it? Police don't have much else to do in raleigh it seems.

5/10/2006 4:47:15 PM

i'm not trying to be a dick, I just didn't think it was that big of a deal.

consider me schooled

[Edited on May 10, 2006 at 4:49 PM. Reason : .]

5/10/2006 4:49:18 PM

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"Do you think every cop car has a meter in it?"

it seems to me that if they really wanted to catch shops that passed tint "illegally" that would be a more efficient way of doing it.

5/10/2006 4:51:20 PM

The DMV is in charge of inspections, the police just enforce the tint laws when they feel necesary.

5/10/2006 4:52:37 PM

Quote :

"consider me schooled"

again

5/10/2006 4:58:04 PM

Just trying to give you all the information, not trying to be arguementative.

5/10/2006 5:08:25 PM

the inspection on my friend's car expired 2/06
inspected last weekend and the new inspection expires 2/07

if you wait more than a year do they put on an already expired new sticker?

5/10/2006 5:11:37 PM

don't give away trade secrets

makes it harder for those of us with no emissions equipment whatsoever

5/10/2006 5:12:11 PM

5/10/2006 5:12:37 PM

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"if you wait more than a year do they put on an already expired new sticker?"

as with most parts of an inspection - it depends on where you go - if you remove the old sticker you might be able to get away with it (i have a friend that did this last year)

i luckily just got an extra month on mine - ran out in march 06 and i went in april and got it reupped until april 07 - same place wlb420 mentioned earlier if you caught it

[Edited on May 10, 2006 at 5:15 PM. Reason : my old march sticker was still on the car at the time]

5/10/2006 5:14:47 PM

They will put on one year from the date on the sticker. You can't pay for a year and get 15 months.

5/10/2006 5:14:58 PM

what 15 months?

if he got pulled in march or april he would have got a ticket

5/10/2006 5:19:23 PM

maxima was saying that if it ran out in 02/06 and you went in 05/06 - you only get reupped to 02/07 and not 05/07 - waiting gets you nothing

5/10/2006 5:21:12 PM

Quote :

"if you wait more than a year do they put on an already expired new sticker?"

5/10/2006 5:34:14 PM

you should take off yoru sticker if you want more time. otherwise they will just add a year. if it is more than a year old, you can say that the car was parked for some time and you just got it back on the road so now you're getting it inspected and they probably won't say anything and give you a new sticker that expires in the month you sticker was in of the following year, if not a full year from the current month.

5/10/2006 5:37:32 PM

That question makes no sense. Example:
Sticker says 02/04
You go in at 03/04, they put on a 02/05 sticker
You go in at 05/05, they put on a 02/06 sticker
You go in at 05/06, they put on a 02/07 sticker


It isn't expired, you just have to go back in 9 months instead of 12.
If they put on an expired sticker, then you need to go back and have that problem addressed.

[Edited on May 10, 2006 at 5:43 PM. Reason : .]

5/10/2006 5:42:54 PM

the inspector is required to give you 1 year from when your car was due for inspection. You being a slack ass and not getting to the inspection station on time isn't their problem.

5/10/2006 10:21:12 PM

i'm moving up north for a couple years, i'm taking my jeep off the road (its already a solid 15 months PAST inspection)

when i move back south, and go to put the jeep back on the road - how tough is it going to be to get an inspection in 2008 with an inspection from 2004 on it?

5/10/2006 10:33:02 PM

not hard

5/10/2006 10:33:44 PM

if you are moving - your registration location should change - if it doesn't then you will need to keep it current

5/10/2006 10:34:23 PM

the plates will be expired in a year and you will have to reregister it anyway and will have to get it inspected 10 days from when the new registration is issued.

5/10/2006 10:35:19 PM

[Edited on May 16, 2006 at 2:27 AM. Reason : random]

5/16/2006 2:26:30 AM

Quote :

"the inspector is required to give you 1 year from when your car was due for inspection. You being a slack ass and not getting to the inspection station on time isn't their problem."

if inspection expired jan 05 and you go in today, do they put on a jan 06 sticker?

5/16/2006 6:43:37 AM

you won't be able to get it inspected because your registration won't be up to date because it has a block on it is my best guess

5/16/2006 11:01:13 AM

i'm turning the plates in before i leave

and note: i've never gotten the vehicle inspected, so they don't have a record of that

5/16/2006 11:48:29 AM