Posted: 10/19/2014 6:08:08 AM EDT
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I heard that they are doing away with inspection stickers on the windshield, and that around March, you will have inspection stickers on your license plates. Any truth to this? I just got my truck inspected, I don't want to have to pay another $14 and change  Hell, I had a tough time getting mine passed because my low-beam bulbs aren't OEM (but they are DOT), and then complained that one of my lugs weren't torqued to spec  Luckily I passed. I had to haggle with them about my lights. Won't be going there anymore. The place I usually go to isn't that anal. |
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I heard that they are doing away with inspection stickers on the windshield, and that around March, you will have inspection stickers on your license plates.Any truth to this? Not exactly, I think you will need to send in an inspection certificate in order to register your vehicle. Thus registration sticker will provide both registration and proof of inspection. Nothing on plates. |
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The inspection 'certificate' is electronically sent. When they look online to resister your vehicle it will tell if it was done or not. You will get over a year on your current inspection unless you move from a non-emission to and emission county.
Most states have been doing this for years, less hassle with stolen stickers, keeping track of them, re-inspection if the windshield is replaced. Never figured why we do inspection on brand new cars here, just a waste of time. |
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The inspection 'certificate' is electronically sent. When they look online to resister your vehicle it will tell if it was done or not. You will get over a year on your current inspection unless you move from a non-emission to and emission county. Most states have been doing this for years, less hassle with stolen stickers, keeping track of them, re-inspection if the windshield is replaced. Never figured why we do inspection on brand new cars here, just a waste of time. Most states don't have mandatory vehicle inspections. |
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Quoted: I heard that they are doing away with inspection stickers on the windshield, and that around March, you will have inspection stickers on your license plates. Any truth to this? I just got my truck inspected, I don't want to have to pay another $14 and change Hell, I had a tough time getting mine passed because my low-beam bulbs aren't OEM (but they are DOT), and then complained that one of my lugs weren't torqued to spec Luckily I passed. I had to haggle with them about my lights. Won't be going there anymore. The place I usually go to isn't that anal. It is changing. What I've been told by an inspection station is, there's no more sticker, period, in any case for the vehicle window or plate. You get an inspection done, its electronically transferred to to TXDOT and attached to your registration. If you have not had an inspection you cant renew your registration. When you get an inspection, you receive a little card or something that shows you have had it done. The details are still not known by most people yet. And, even what I've posted is not 100%.
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The inspection 'certificate' is electronically sent. When they look online to resister your vehicle it will tell if it was done or not. You will get over a year on your current inspection unless you move from a non-emission to and emission county. Most states have been doing this for years, less hassle with stolen stickers, keeping track of them, re-inspection if the windshield is replaced. Never figured why we do inspection on brand new cars here, just a waste of time. Most states don't have mandatory vehicle inspections. I wish we would follow their lead. Inspections are a fucking joke 
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The inspection 'certificate' is electronically sent. When they look online to resister your vehicle it will tell if it was done or not. You will get over a year on your current inspection unless you move from a non-emission to and emission county. Most states have been doing this for years, less hassle with stolen stickers, keeping track of them, re-inspection if the windshield is replaced. Never figured why we do inspection on brand new cars here, just a waste of time. Most states don't have mandatory vehicle inspections. I wish we would follow their lead. Inspections are a fucking joke I'm happy to live in Texas and always have been. But there are a lot of things that are fucked up here, law wise. |
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I heard that they are doing away with inspection stickers on the windshield, and that around March, you will have inspection stickers on your license plates.Any truth to this? I just got my truck inspected, I don't want to have to pay another $14 and change
Hell, I had a tough time getting mine passed because my low-beam bulbs aren't OEM (but they are DOT), and then complained that one of my lugs weren't torqued to spec
Luckily I passed. I had to haggle with them about my lights. Won't be going there anymore. The place I usually go to isn't that anal. All of the above is the answer. To answer your question on getting another inspection with the new law. There will be a one year crossover period to get both the inspection expiration and registration expiration times into the same month, or within 60 days of each other. Your locale registration office can help you figure out how this will work. MPD165 |
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I wasn't able to do that this year, so they may have done away with them. Quoted:
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How will they treat the multi year registrations? I wasn't able to do that this year, so they may have done away with them. It will be phased in especially with new cars that currently get 2 year inspection stickers |
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Most states don't have mandatory vehicle inspections. Quoted:
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The inspection 'certificate' is electronically sent. When they look online to resister your vehicle it will tell if it was done or not. You will get over a year on your current inspection unless you move from a non-emission to and emission county. Most states have been doing this for years, less hassle with stolen stickers, keeping track of them, re-inspection if the windshield is replaced. Never figured why we do inspection on brand new cars here, just a waste of time. Most states don't have mandatory vehicle inspections. Most at least in some counties have emission tests. They are handled the same way. |
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I'll revive this for those who have questions. The below link is a link to Texas DMV with all of the information on the transition. http://txdmv.gov/motorists/register-your-vehicle/two-steps-one-sticker MPD165 It appears I suck at hotlinking. http://txdmv.gov/motorists/register-your-vehicle/two-steps-one-sticker |
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I heard that they are doing away with inspection stickers on the windshield, and that around March, you will have inspection stickers on your license plates.Any truth to this? I just got my truck inspected, I don't want to have to pay another $14 and change
Hell, I had a tough time getting mine passed because my low-beam bulbs aren't OEM (but they are DOT), and then complained that one of my lugs weren't torqued to spec
Luckily I passed. I had to haggle with them about my lights. Won't be going there anymore. The place I usually go to isn't that anal. There's a whole lot of WTF going on in the part in red. It reminds me of back in the 80's when they used to inspect headlight aiming and damn near everyone "failed" and the shops would charge an extra "headlight aiming service" fee so you could "pass". There was a movement then to get rid of inspections so the DPS eliminated headlight aiming from the criteria as they did a study and found that only about 3% of cars inspected actually failed the headlight aiming standard. There is no state standard for lug nut torque in the vehicle inspection rules in fact the inspection criteria state: "20.31 Wheel Assembly. The inspection of all wheels and rims will be visual. Spare wheels and rims will not be inspected." The criteria also specifically state light bulbs that have DOT or SAE on them are acceptable. |
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There's a whole lot of WTF going on in the part in red. It reminds me of back in the 80's when they used to inspect headlight aiming and damn near everyone "failed" and the shops would charge an extra "headlight aiming service" fee so you could "pass". There was a movement then to get rid of inspections so the DPS eliminated headlight aiming from the criteria as they did a study and found that only about 3% of cars inspected actually failed the headlight aiming standard. There is no state standard for lug nut torque in the vehicle inspection rules in fact the inspection criteria state: "20.31 Wheel Assembly. The inspection of all wheels and rims will be visual. Spare wheels and rims will not be inspected." The criteria also specifically state light bulbs that have DOT or SAE on them are acceptable. Quoted:
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I heard that they are doing away with inspection stickers on the windshield, and that around March, you will have inspection stickers on your license plates.Any truth to this? I just got my truck inspected, I don't want to have to pay another $14 and change
Hell, I had a tough time getting mine passed because my low-beam bulbs aren't OEM (but they are DOT), and then complained that one of my lugs weren't torqued to spec
Luckily I passed. I had to haggle with them about my lights. Won't be going there anymore. The place I usually go to isn't that anal. There's a whole lot of WTF going on in the part in red. It reminds me of back in the 80's when they used to inspect headlight aiming and damn near everyone "failed" and the shops would charge an extra "headlight aiming service" fee so you could "pass". There was a movement then to get rid of inspections so the DPS eliminated headlight aiming from the criteria as they did a study and found that only about 3% of cars inspected actually failed the headlight aiming standard. There is no state standard for lug nut torque in the vehicle inspection rules in fact the inspection criteria state: "20.31 Wheel Assembly. The inspection of all wheels and rims will be visual. Spare wheels and rims will not be inspected." The criteria also specifically state light bulbs that have DOT or SAE on them are acceptable. +1 on the WTF. I was a ASE master tech and a VA state inspector. Did the inspector take your headlight bulbs out to inspect them? I really want to know just how he determined that one lug nut was not torqued correctly. Did he torque them all himself and find one was loose? Sounds like a place you need to avoid. And suggest that everyone else do the same. |
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+1 on the WTF. I was a ASE master tech and a VA state inspector. Did the inspector take your headlight bulbs out to inspect them? I really want to know just how he determined that one lug nut was not torqued correctly. Did he torque them all himself and find one was loose? Sounds like a place you need to avoid. And suggest that everyone else do the same. Quoted:
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I heard that they are doing away with inspection stickers on the windshield, and that around March, you will have inspection stickers on your license plates.Any truth to this? I just got my truck inspected, I don't want to have to pay another $14 and change
Hell, I had a tough time getting mine passed because my low-beam bulbs aren't OEM (but they are DOT), and then complained that one of my lugs weren't torqued to spec
Luckily I passed. I had to haggle with them about my lights. Won't be going there anymore. The place I usually go to isn't that anal. There's a whole lot of WTF going on in the part in red. It reminds me of back in the 80's when they used to inspect headlight aiming and damn near everyone "failed" and the shops would charge an extra "headlight aiming service" fee so you could "pass". There was a movement then to get rid of inspections so the DPS eliminated headlight aiming from the criteria as they did a study and found that only about 3% of cars inspected actually failed the headlight aiming standard. There is no state standard for lug nut torque in the vehicle inspection rules in fact the inspection criteria state: "20.31 Wheel Assembly. The inspection of all wheels and rims will be visual. Spare wheels and rims will not be inspected." The criteria also specifically state light bulbs that have DOT or SAE on them are acceptable. +1 on the WTF. I was a ASE master tech and a VA state inspector. Did the inspector take your headlight bulbs out to inspect them? I really want to know just how he determined that one lug nut was not torqued correctly. Did he torque them all himself and find one was loose? Sounds like a place you need to avoid. And suggest that everyone else do the same. What this guy said. What's the name of this place? |
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+1 on the WTF. I was a ASE master tech and a VA state inspector. Did the inspector take your headlight bulbs out to inspect them? I really want to know just how he determined that one lug nut was not torqued correctly. Did he torque them all himself and find one was loose? Sounds like a place you need to avoid. And suggest that everyone else do the same. Quoted:
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I heard that they are doing away with inspection stickers on the windshield, and that around March, you will have inspection stickers on your license plates.Any truth to this? I just got my truck inspected, I don't want to have to pay another $14 and change
Hell, I had a tough time getting mine passed because my low-beam bulbs aren't OEM (but they are DOT), and then complained that one of my lugs weren't torqued to spec
Luckily I passed. I had to haggle with them about my lights. Won't be going there anymore. The place I usually go to isn't that anal. There's a whole lot of WTF going on in the part in red. It reminds me of back in the 80's when they used to inspect headlight aiming and damn near everyone "failed" and the shops would charge an extra "headlight aiming service" fee so you could "pass". There was a movement then to get rid of inspections so the DPS eliminated headlight aiming from the criteria as they did a study and found that only about 3% of cars inspected actually failed the headlight aiming standard. There is no state standard for lug nut torque in the vehicle inspection rules in fact the inspection criteria state: "20.31 Wheel Assembly. The inspection of all wheels and rims will be visual. Spare wheels and rims will not be inspected." The criteria also specifically state light bulbs that have DOT or SAE on them are acceptable. +1 on the WTF. I was a ASE master tech and a VA state inspector. Did the inspector take your headlight bulbs out to inspect them? I really want to know just how he determined that one lug nut was not torqued correctly. Did he torque them all himself and find one was loose? Sounds like a place you need to avoid. And suggest that everyone else do the same. Sounds like he was trying to sell you some new lights. Thanks to Zaminsky for hotlinking for me. MPD165 |
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I heard that they are doing away with inspection stickers on the windshield, and that around March, you will have inspection stickers on your license plates.Any truth to this? I just got my truck inspected, I don't want to have to pay another $14 and change
Hell, I had a tough time getting mine passed because my low-beam bulbs aren't OEM (but they are DOT), and then complained that one of my lugs weren't torqued to spec
Luckily I passed. I had to haggle with them about my lights. Won't be going there anymore. The place I usually go to isn't that anal. This wasn't at a Kwik Kar oil change/inspection place was it? |