I heard today that in North Carolina vehicles 35 years old or older will not need to be state inspected. Has anyone else heard this? o No:
I am unaware of that. I suspect someone is thinking of the exemption under NC Gen. Stat. 20-183.3 for vehicles in counties now mandated to give the emissions sniff test. Historically you must have the sniff if you are in a designated county and if you have an auto less than 26 model years old or was built after 1996. All stiil must have inspections for horn, brakes ,etc even if exempt from sniff. Historic plate cars have the annual registraton now reduced to $10.00 per annum.
Found this on the winston salem journal web site. . I have a 1967 Ford Mustang. A repair shop told me my car doesn't need to be inspected any more. Is that true? I need to find out because my inspection expires this month. - R.B. A. It's true. You're free. The state law regarding safety inspections of vehicles recently changed. A new law, effective Oct. 1, exempts vehicles of a certain age from annual safety inspections. The car must be 35 years or older, based on the manufacture date.
WOW! I thoguht I was lucky when we got rid of emissions inspections.. I'm not sure I like the fact that they did away with safety inspections thoughuzzled:
No more. We got this across the new state inspection computer at work a couple of weeks ago. I put a copy of it in my 70 just in case I get pulled.
Obd Ii Effective Jan. 1 all 96 and newer (OBD II) vehicles will get an emissions inspection. The ecm will communicate with the states computer and check for the "check engine" light operation and all emission monitors. So if your check engine light is on it will not pass and have to be fixed or spend $250 trying to get the car to pass and then apply for a waiver and they can turn it down and make you get it fixed anyway. All 95 and older, up to 35 years old, will just have the safety inspection done which is $9.25 and the new inspection cost $35. The tail pipe sniffer is being fased out due to it not being very accurate.
Over here in NYC I finally got a break since my Dodge Coronet is 1968 it just needs a saftey inspection. That is just wipers, glass, lights simple. No emissions I had some problems when I had to get emissions done on my Electra. Any car over 25 years old just has a saftey inspection.
Coolness! Oddly enough I feel even more responsible to make sure everything is working right. uzzled:
in ontario, the only vehicle inspection required, is when u sell your car, before the ownership can be re-registered to the purchaser. we have emissions inspections every 2 years for cars 20 years old & newer.
I did inspections in PA and we/they have changed the emissions program three times now. Used to be $8.00 for a sniff test and a shop had to do a lot of work just to pay for the machine! Then they decided the state would take this over and contracted for a mess of photo-hut like testing places to be built. Before this program was even used, they changed their mind on it and the building were never used! I even heard the idea was dropped BEFORE they were built but the company with the construction contract was getting paid if the buildings went up or not! Now, it is still handled in private shops but it is a $30 test. The county I live in doesn't need emission testing but now a visual inspection is a part of the annual safety inspection and the mechanic has to fill out ANOTHER form. I wasn't too happy to hear about this because it would require a car to have everything on it that it left the factory with. Not a big deal for a 72 or older car but if you have a 455 in a Regal, it should have the parts of a Regal! I really think the problem of bad emissions is being taken care of with the standards the new cars need to meet and the whole testing thing is just a revenue generator. My new diesel has a catatonic perverter on it AND an EGR!!! Even with the old system, a guy spent $50 a year and got a waiver because he had so much cam in the car it was NEVER going to pass! Now how did that save a tree???? Ken
ken: was there a law in pennsylvania, that forbid u from removing your oem exhaust & replacing it with a performance exhaust? this would be in the 1970's.
I'm not sure of such a law back in the days but I had heard rumers that things like headers weren't "legal". I think back then you pretty much got away with what ever you wanted! When I was going to the inspection meetings, there would always be one thing that was the topic of the year. One meeting it was hood scoops but no one could really point to an actual law that determined what was too high. Next year it was roof lights which was just about the time both Ford and GM had them FROM THE FACTORY on the little trucks. I never ran into one but I could just see telling someone the truck they just bought had to have the roof lights taken off or they weren't getting an inspection sticker!! Just seems that you could pretty much do what you want as long as you weren't causing trouble but you have to keep in mind how your car would be looked at! I had a 6" pro-stock scoop on a car I had because it had a high rise intake and I needed the room for an air cleaner and I never got too much trouble over it. It wasn't my favorite look but it did give me a nice place to mount my gauges and believe me, the times I was stopped, it wasn't for the hood! Once for the exhaust, once because a lady SAID I was speeding past her house, and once I got caught red handed as could be and the guy gave me a BIG warning! He could hear plain as day that I had run three gears out but couldn't pin a speed on me and I wasn't with any other cars. I still to this day appreciate him just letting it go. The idiot lady was really on my list and I used to leave a NICE chirp in second EVERY time I went by he house at about 5mph under the speed limit! She was three houses from a stop sign and I know for a fact I never was speeding past her house as a friend of my dads lived right across the street from her and I was smart enough to know how news of my behavior traveled! Ken
