State inspection boondoggle this morning

Mine is due this month. I always try to get to the place before 8. Checked lights and wipers before I left. Noticed I needed a new wiper on passenger side. OK, WalMart is a block from the place I use. Replace the wiper and head to the inspection place. There are 3 vehicles in front of me. Almost blew it off but decided to wait. After 15 minutes the line moves and dude walks up to the truck. He says they don't have any one to do it and it will be at least a month before they do. I started to tell him it that is the case then quit sending postcards. So I head back to WalMart to get some other stuff and I remember another place. It is near Rockwall high school and traffic sucks. I pull in there and their machine is not working. Now I have to fight the high school traffic to get out of there. The state just needs to do away with inspections.

it's silly to still require inspections.

I have a guy in bonham that can have ya in and out in 5 mins.

right across the street is one of the best burger places I have ever eaten at.

win/win!

They should be done at insurance offices, might help with minimum coverage enforcement.

The tire place I use has now started requiring reservations for vehicle inspections. The owner says he doesn't have enough employees to stop in the middle of putting on a set of tires or doing rotation/balance or front end alignment to have someone inspect a car for $7.00.

if you live in the metroplex you have to get inspection in the metroplex.

My 3 vehicles all come 3 months in a row. Kwik Lube in Brownwood is quick if no oil change is needed-and since no emission test!

Inspections need to go away. Pretty much useless. If the state needs the revenue, just add it to the registration but do not require the ridiculous wait to get a meaningless inspection.

You joking right.i take mine to the bodega in Dallas,in and out

have y'all not heard were going to die in eight years if we don't get our vehicles inspected?

it's all about global warming...........

I hear ya. It’s even a beating here in Smith County. On son’s truck he did not get it inspected. I went on line and registered it. They sent me an email telling me it needed to be inspected. About a week later the tag came in the mail. No inspection.

You have to love the efficiency and thoroughness of “gubberment” at work.

Henderson county no emissions test,pull up honk horn,ck blinkers and lights, Done $8

Inspection is about to cost my sister $5500 in Austin. Can’t pass emissions test in her jeep unless she replaces her catalytic converter.

Go to Shields up close to the square

State Inspection in a non emissions county is $7... I know its just a dollar, but someone is charging extra!

off but on the subject.

Last time i took my Jeep in for inspection, the service writer had to get an older guy to drive it.... I guess he didn't know what the extra pedal was for.

Stupid question I'm sure, but does Wal-Mart not do them?

They do not.

Last 2 times I got mine inspected I never got out of my truck. I think it was a Covid thing. I have lived in Rockwall for 23 years and the first 20 the same guy was doing them at Vavoline. I called him the little round man. He was as big around at the waist as he was tall. I googled inspections and found a place closer to the house that specializes in inspections. It is off 66 next to Rockwall Deer Processors so real convenient.

3549 & 66 near the deer processing

Oklahoma did away with them years ago, vehicles are in no worse shape because of it

Hit up Shields near the square

She needs to go where the illegal aliens go and pay a little extra to get it to pass

I would think Austin area would have plenty of those shops near 183 highway area

Same thing here in the Centex, two vehicles this month, (work and the boys), never got out, lights, blinkers, and brakes. Paid and was on my way in less than 10 mins. Waste of time

At one time knew a guy that would sell me a sticker. Not an option these days with inspections entered in the computer.

They did not do a brake test. I guess they figured if I could stop when I pulled in the bay then brakes were good.

I am trying to figure out where this boondoogle really sits in the pantheon of boondooglisms.

So you went two places and both were not able to complete the inspection? Is this really a high end boondoogle or is someone crying boondoogle?

I recent had to go to three different stores to find an item I was looking for. It was inconvenient yes... but I never considered it to be a boondoggle.

The car wash a mile away has a vehicle inspection station at the end.
I have never had to wait more than 20 minutes to get an inspection so I guess I am lucky.

Heh. They DID add a big chunk of the inspection fee to registrations. That's why the inspection places only get the $7, which isn't enough to cover labor in my opinion.

I agree thatthese inspections are a waste of time and resources..

Alabama doesn't do inspections either. But it costs me $380 to register two vehicles this year.

I went this morning. Found my new go to inspection place. 20 minutes in and out with 2 people in front of me. I had a license plate bulb out but he said no problem. Not sure if they are required to pass or if one is good. Inspections is all they do.