Thread: Emissions testing in your state/province ?

NJ used to be rather hard to even pass when your car was in good shape. today all they give a crap about is that the cel is off and you have a cat.

light duty commercial trucks like pick ups and any thing under 24,000 gvw they check everything. i mean everything.


best part is inspection is free and good for 2 years at the state locations, or you can pay at a shop, but thats dumb aint it?

Wow, thanks for all those responses... Weird how things can be so different, State, County....... City limits ??? For those of you with NO safety inspections, (sounds pretty dangerous to me, maybe that where all those video with tires&wheels flying off and going in the opposite lane of travel come from ? ) especially in rust bound states, they really let you drive until the car just starts falling apart? Here in R.I. it's a State "wide" inspection, shops need certifications to do it, same price everywhere, if it fails you can fix it on your own ( 5 day tag ) and get the re-test for free, or have the shop do it (kind of a conflict of interest, I think). There is 1 State run inspection facility, but no one wants to go there because they've got nothing better to do but go over your stuff with a microscope ! I think it's mostly there to settle disputes between shops & customers, or to punish repeat offenders that the cops are sick of... like " If I see you racin' around in my town again, Imma gonna impound this thing and take it to Cranston and they'll take this thing apart ! "

Oh, you guys may not believe me, but the State run facility is located on.............Pontiac Avenue !!! look it up.

Originally Posted by cheatah faheatah

For those of you with NO safety inspections, (sounds pretty dangerous to me, maybe that where all those video with tires&wheels flying off and going in the opposite lane of travel come from ? ) especially in rust bound states, they really let you drive until the car just starts falling apart?

You would think there would be more instances of that in places with no inspection, but people are generally pretty good about self policing. Even people with little to no mechanical knowledge are generally smart enough to know when a vehicle isn't (at the very least) safe to be on the road. The human species has a pretty strong desire to survive.

I have seen wheels come off of vehicles that came directly from a repair facility. You know... a place where the people are trained to inspect/repair vehicles.