WA has no annual or other regular inspections process. There is a one time inspection to register an out of state vehicle. Mostly minor safety items, brakes, lights, essentials. Based on what is on the road, you can drive anything that will make it down the road.
clay On Apr 12, 2016, at 5:33 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > Absurd, and probably completely ineffective. Again I'd like to see a good > comparison of states that inspect and don't inspect. Then it'd be interesting > to assign a numerical value on each inspection regimen and compare the data > with that as a modifier. Above my pay grade though... > -Curt > > From: Andrew Strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com> > To: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com>; Mercedes Discussion List > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 8:26 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] How insane would this be? > > I pay $75 for a good hour of inspectin'. > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > MA does a pretty perfunctory inspection, ball joints, wheel bearings, tires, > wipers, lights, that sort of thing. Its probably a good idea, I bet a lot of > people don't know about those kind of problems. Sometimes Angie will drive > for awhile with a wheel wobbling badly and forget to tell me, then I drive > her car and "Holy crap!" > It'd be interesting to see an unbiased comparison of accidents in states that > have inspection and those that don't to see if inspection helps anything. > Certainly the 5 minutes the guy spends on my car is not worth the $30 > charged. The inspection station only gets like $5 out of that, most of it is > a scam from the state. > -Curt > > From: OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: OK Don <okd...@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 7:02 PM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] How insane would this be? > > Inspection? What's an inspection? Move to a civilized State ;-) LOL. > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> Would NEVER pass Maryland inspection. >> >> > > > -- > OK Don > > *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of > our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain > > "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who > learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence > for themselves." > > WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* > 2013 F150, 18 mpg > 2012 Passat TDI DSG, 44 mpg > 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
