OT. Is is time to bring back the inspection

[Walkthedawg]

Sticker process? Lights that are so bright they blind you whether they are dimmed or not and increasingly they aren’t dimmed. Exhaust systems that disturb the peace, ridiculous. Windows tinted so dark, etc, etc

Negative. There are laws for that. They just need to be enforced. There is a law for those trucks and SUVs that looked like a dog with worms dragging is ***. Guess what? I still see them. They either love that so much they are paying ticket after ticket or it’s not being enforced.

Where I used to go to get an inspection sticker required you to have 5 bucks to get one. Guess what? If you were on a first name basis with him… you could get a couple more for your vehicles at home to save you the trip.

 

[TaleofTwoDogs]

A $5 inspection sticker is a joke. Who gets that money? Half to the state, half to the mechanic? That’s not enough $ to care about doing a good job. Make it $50 and you’ll start to get some serious buy-in from mechanics, LEO, and drivers.

$50 is a little steep. $25 - $30 is probably more realistic. The state should send a rep to Texas to learn how to do proper inspections including the mechanic driving the car to test braking.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

Reading through these posts, it’s clear to see why Mississippi Stste fans are their own worst enemies. Y’all are a bunch of crotchety, old 17s with nothing better to do than complain about someone else’s headlights and tail pipes. You bastards are sad.

Found the guy that drives a truck with the back end dropped

 

[turkish]

Sticker process? Lights that are so bright they blind you whether they are dimmed or not and increasingly they aren’t dimmed. Exhaust systems that disturb the peace, ridiculous. Windows tinted so dark, etc, etc

What issue do you have with window tint?

 

[ronpolk]

I'd say 20 years or more. . Don't remember the last time. I don't want to go back, it was an annoyance.

I’m not sure when it was but definitely was not 20 years ago. It was after 2013. I was not living in MS until 2013 and I got a ticket once for an expired inspection sticker.

 

[PBRME]

It must have been lax wherever you got a sticker because around here you couldn’t find anyone that would just slap one on no questions asked. And they would get out the tint meter to check your glass at every place.

There was a pace in Byhalia that would overlook defects. I had a cj7 in college with no working horn. Lots of other issues because of the previous owners, but that was all that would fail inspection everywhere else.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

I’m not sure when it was but definitely was not 20 years ago. It was after 2013. I was not living in MS until 2013 and I got a ticket once for an expired inspection sticker.

I took the effort to look up, according to CL it was 2013.

 

[ronpolk]

I took the effort to look up, according to CL it was 2013.

That makes sense… I think I remember the law going into effect in July or something… I think I got the ticket in April. I knew there was a reason that I didn’t think I’d need one. Learned the difference between approved by law makers but not signed into law yet

 

[40mikemike]

Careful…..You’ll get there one day, son******
Na. I plan on minding my own business well into my retirement years.

 

[40mikemike]

Found the guy that drives a truck with the back end dropped

Naw. My truck is stock. I just don’t care what other people waste their money on.

 

[Mr. Cook]

I’m

Na. I plan on minding my own business well into my retirement years.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

What issue do you have with window tint?

The window tint, is a law enforcement issue. They don't like to walk up to a vehicle, that they have stopped, and can't see inside.

 

[RocketDawg]

The police cars aren't any better. Met a MHP the other day, blue lights going and front lights flashing bright side to side, had to stop because I couldn't see. Passing a roadblock or someone pulled over isn't any better with those flashing blues. Have had to close my eyes to creep past them. I don't see how they aren't causing accidents. I understand their need to be seen but they don't have to use solar flares.

The HP has some bright blue lights for sure. After a football game where there are several of them at an intersection, you can't see a thing.

 

[RocketDawg]

Speaking of loud exhaust. Golf buddy just bought a new Denali with the 6.2 engine. It has a switch that changes the exhaust sound. One mode sounds like it’s got glass packs on it. It will howl when you get on it. I assume it’s bypassing something?

My car has a different sound when you pull back on the shift leaver for Sport mode, or when you switch to Dynamic mode in a little more complicated process (it makes some suspension changes as well as transmission shift points), and it also makes the engine sound a bit louder - or at least inside the car. It's fake cutout noise, only heard through the inside speakers. It called "soundaktor" or something of the sort. Audi SQ5.

 

[OopsICroomedmypants]

 

[Arnept]

They need to bring back a proper driving test.

Everybody on the road that got their license in 2020 or later never had to complete a driving test to get their license.

 

[Jack Klompus.sixpack]

Did they care about any of that when the inspection process was ongoing? The place I was getting my sticker before they stopped didn't "inspect" anything - the guy would take my $5 while a young worker would go slap a sticker on the windshield.

The time to do it right wasn’t worth it for a mechanic. He got half of that fee. A whopping $2.50 for you non math scholars.

 

[40mikemike]

The window tint, is a law enforcement issue. They don't like to walk up to a vehicle, that they have stopped, and can't see inside.

I’ll worry about my tint when they get rid of theirs.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

I’ll worry about my tint when they get rid of theirs.

That's ok with me, I'm not going to pull you over, Good Luck.

 

[mcdawg22]

The time to do it right wasn’t worth it for a mechanic. He got half of that fee. A whopping $2.50 for you non math scholars.

Typically mechanics didn’t get a cut period. The issue was getting in trouble for passing a car that shouldn’t pass. I worked for Splash N Dash when we did inspections. We also serviced MHP cars so I knew those guys well. The owner did not have a good system for inventory. One day one of the MHP came in and asked me about a sticker number because he just pulled over a car with a 2 day old inspection sticker with bad lights and a cracked windshield that was clearly more than two days old. We looked at the book that you sell them out of and you could clearly see it wasn’t any of the mechanic’s handwriting. We were able to find several stickers like that and narrow down the time were taken by the stickers before and after. We looked at video and caught one of the car wash employees stealing them. He was selling them to people he knew that couldn’t pass inspection. Obviously he got in deep ****, but if it had been a legit sell we would have been.

 

[Jack Klompus.sixpack]

Typically mechanics didn’t get a cut period. The issue was getting in trouble for passing a car that shouldn’t pass. I worked for Splash N Dash when we did inspections. We also serviced MHP cars so I knew those guys well. The owner did not have a good system for inventory. One day one of the MHP came in and asked me about a sticker number because he just pulled over a car with a 2 day old inspection sticker with bad lights and a cracked windshield that was clearly more than two days old. We looked at the book that you sell them out of and you could clearly see it wasn’t any of the mechanic’s handwriting. We were able to find several stickers like that and narrow down the time were taken by the stickers before and after. We looked at video and caught one of the car wash employees stealing them. He was selling them to people he knew that couldn’t pass inspection. Obviously he got in deep ****, but if it had been a legit sell we would have been.

I have no idea what Splash and Dash is or was. My dad was one of the mechanics who did inspections for the state of Mississippi and worked himself to death under charging the people he loved, his customers. It definitely was not worth his time to earn $2.50 to do this. Times have changed, but the percentage of earnings have definitely not. It didn’t enforce what it was supposed to 40 plus years ago and won’t enforce it now for sure.

 

[champdawg.sixpack]

Reading through these posts, it’s clear to see why Mississippi Stste fans are their own worst enemies. Y’all are a bunch of crotchety, old 17s with nothing better to do than complain about someone else’s headlights and tail pipes. You bastards are sad.

You left out “collecting social security”. You wet behind the ears,left nutt ain’t dropped,don’t know **** little snowflake!

 

[HotMop]

Did they care about any of that when the inspection process was ongoing? The place I was getting my sticker before they stopped didn't "inspect" anything - the guy would take my $5 while a young worker would go slap a sticker on the windshield.

This is where I wanted to go, when I still lived in Starkville I visited a place because of a cracked windshield. I had to get it fixed as they put a hold on my tag for 30 days.

 

[mcdawg22]

I have no idea what Splash and Dash is or was. My dad was one of the mechanics who did inspections for the state of Mississippi and worked himself to death under charging the people he loved, his customers. It definitely was not worth his time to earn $2.50 to do this. Times have changed, but the percentage of earnings have definitely not. It didn’t enforce what it was supposed to 40 plus years ago and won’t enforce it now for sure.

Sorry, I assumed anyone that went to State between 1990 and 2005 knew about Splash N Dash and forget we have younger and older people on here. The company made money off of the stickers there, not the mechanics. It took us more time to fill out the sticker and book than pass the car.

 

[The Peeper]

Electronic exhaust diverter. I put one on my 10 Camaro.

Is that what makes all those little foreign "Fast and the Furious" wannabees sound like weedeaters when in fact they're only doing about 35mph?

 

[o_Hot Rock]

Inspection stickers were a joke and just a means to generate revenue. They never stopped people from driving junky cars.

No one ever checked anything but you got tickets for not having one.

What really needs to happen is at certain age you should have to prove you still have ability to drive and not just a pencil whipped test.

I know we messed up with y dad letting him drive into his mid 90s. We Finally took his keys after several fender benders. Luckily it only cost us a few $$$.

 

[The Cooterpoot]

I'm always amazed at the people who want the government telling everyone what they can and can't do. If I want to drive a piece of **** car that's my business. It's not like inspections checked for serious issues anyway. If you don't like loud exhaust in you hood, take it up with your neighbor or the HOA.

 

[o_Hot Rock]

I'm always amazed at the people who want the government telling everyone what they can and can't do. If I want to drive a piece of **** car that's my business. It's not like inspections checked for serious issues anyway. If you don't like loud exhaust in you hood, take it up with your neighbor or the HOA.

Wrong, so wrong

Driving a piece of **** does endanger others not just you. It’s not just the stuff that causes wrecks like lights and brakes but it’s the loud pipes, tint too dark. to smog control that hurt others and even kill them. Yes kill:

my first wife’s family had to leave Chattanooga or let her die as a child from the smog. Yes it was that bad in Chattanooga and her asthma that next level bad.

Driving is not a right but a privilege earned!

 

[aTotal360]

Reading through these posts, it’s clear to see why Mississippi Stste fans are their own worst enemies. Y’all are a bunch of crotchety, old 17s with nothing better to do than complain about someone else’s headlights and tail pipes. You bastards are sad.

Wait till you read about the fans that complain about the complaining fans…

 

[The Cooterpoot]

Wrong, so wrong

Driving a piece of **** does endanger others not just you. It’s not just the stuff that causes wrecks like lights and brakes but it’s the loud pipes, tint too dark. to smog control that hurt others and even kill them. Yes kill:

my first wife’s family had to leave Chattanooga or let her die as a child from the smog. Yes it was that bad in Chattanooga and her asthma that next level bad.

Driving is not a right but a privilege earned!

No it doesn't. The inspections let just about anything on the road anyway. They check your windshield, lights, blinkers and that's about it unless you've got obvious issues like a blown out window or crap hanging off your car. It's a tax and nothing more. If you think the government cares about yuu or anyone else beyond your tax money, you're a fool.

 

[johnson86-1]

No it doesn't. The inspections let just about anything on the road anyway. They check your windshield, lights, blinkers and that's about it unless you've got obvious issues like a blown out window or crap hanging off your car. It's a tax and nothing more. If you think the government cares about yuu or anyone else beyond your tax money, you're a fool.

It was a super inefficient tax. $5 doesn't cover the time for a real inspection, much less the cost of the sticker and administrative work.

If they did a $50 inspection at say year 5 and then maybe every other year after year 10? That might actually accomplish something from a safety standpoint and not just be a pure tax. Not saying I'd be in favor of that, but that would at least not be absurd on its face.

 

[The Cooterpoot]

It was a super inefficient tax. $5 doesn't cover the time for a real inspection, much less the cost of the sticker and administrative work.

If they did a $50 inspection at say year 5 and then maybe every other year after year 10? That might actually accomplish something from a safety standpoint and not just be a pure tax. Not saying I'd be in favor of that, but that would at least not be absurd on its face.

We already pay high fuel taxes, and tag taxes and MS is high tax state. People aren't dying due to older cars. Cars today aren't coming apart at 75K like the old cars (except Nissan Altimas) they're going 250K easily these days. I'm more fearful of an 18 wheeler, log truck, dump truck than an old car on the road. Auto prices are mortgages these days too, so screw all that government waste of time. Waive those car tag costs and/or cut those fuel taxes and then we can talk. Also not a fan of burdening people with silly, expensive repairs that I'm sure they'd slap on people with their overreach.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

Wrong, so wrong

Driving a piece of **** does endanger others not just you. It’s not just the stuff that causes wrecks like lights and brakes but it’s the loud pipes, tint too dark. to smog control that hurt others and even kill them. Yes kill:

my first wife’s family had to leave Chattanooga or let her die as a child from the smog. Yes it was that bad in Chattanooga and her asthma that next level bad.

Driving is not a right but a privilege earned!

I admire your ideals, but problem is, Mississippi incentivizes cheap cars (due to their high tax) and has the worst roads and soil conditions in the country. Not to mention the rural/ag aspect of it, folks going off road, many gravel roads, etc. So to me, the inspections are a total waste of time.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

It was a super inefficient tax. $5 doesn't cover the time for a real inspection, much less the cost of the sticker and administrative work.

If they did a $50 inspection at say year 5 and then maybe every other year after year 10? That might actually accomplish something from a safety standpoint and not just be a pure tax. Not saying I'd be in favor of that, but that would at least not be absurd on its face.

We already pay high fuel taxes, and tag taxes and MS is high tax state. People aren't dying due to older cars. Cars today aren't coming apart at 75K like the old cars (except Nissan Altimas) they're going 250K easily these days. I'm more fearful of an 18 wheeler, log truck, dump truck than an old car on the road. Auto prices are mortgages these days too, so screw all that government waste of time. Waive those car tag costs and/or cut those fuel taxes and then we can talk. Also not a fan of burdening people with silly, expensive repairs that I'm sure they'd slap on people with their overreach.

You two always run directly to the government waste stuff. You do realize that other states, that test for emissions and such, is done by the private market? Government gets nothing except the income tax for the service. And for the record, I agree with you on MS' inspection.

Sometimes the government does want to do good things, like maintain clean air. That's the purpose, invest in things for the entire public, not just the rich folks (where they would theoretically turn a 'profit').

 

[JY1947]

I’m not sure when it was but definitely was not 20 years ago. It was after 2013. I was not living in MS until 2013 and I got a ticket once for an expired inspection sticker.

2015 is when the law was passed. went into effect july 1

 

[johnson86-1]

You two always run directly to the government waste stuff. You do realize that other states, that test for emissions and such, is done by the private market? Government gets nothing except the income tax for the service. And for the record, I agree with you on MS' inspection.

You realize our inspections were done by the private market?

Sometimes the government does want to do good things, like maintain clean air. That's the purpose, invest in things for the entire public, not just the rich folks (where they would theoretically turn a 'profit').

Did you read my post? Because that was basically the entire point of it, what an inspection program that was actually trying to accomplish something would look like, as opposed to just checking a box and collecting a minuscule amount of revenue for the state that is well less than the costs imposed.