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Originally Posted by hometeam
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in reality its a visual inspection only, and nobody listens to that shit. Just have your buddy pass it.
You also 'can't' motor swap in missouri and a host of other things.
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I've seen guys leave in handcuffs but never due to the inspection, more the lack of one. No invoice found matching date and time, vehicle was proven not to be in area when inspected. But they (MO HP) did take it serious, just no one else did.
I agree, the MO state inspection is the biggest farce that we just can't get rid of.
I would like to see, prefer an emission test over the "just look at one brake pad", "the exhaust isn't leaking enough now to fail" inspection, or the "how loose is loose" re inspections. I don't get the point of knowing that the brake was a **** hair over 1/64" when it was inspected 11 months ago. If you cause an accident due to clearly evident, faulty equipment you should have a judge tell you how long you will miss your family. I've never been satisfied the law saved lives. Honestly the exhaust leak part was the only good part...
Clean air is more important to me. I am in favor of older and custom power train vehicles to be allowed to be driven as unrestricted vehicles and not legislated out of existence. But, if you want to pump HC, CO, CO2 and NOx
gases into the air you should get to pay for the right. same with drive with a "check engine" light on.
Old cars should pay a flat fee for full use and collector cars not be penalized, both should have to show they are not over polluting (belching smoke. running on -2 cyls.).
Customized vehicles are another story all together.
Motor swap not allowed in an inspection? I've been away for 8 years but that's new to me...Can't swap engines? really?