Car tags and vehicle inspection

[Sheila]

Louisville used to have mandatory Vehicle Emissions Testing, and I never minded the once a year visit to the V.E.T. It was cheap (like under $20). Of course if your car was found to be in violation, the problem had to be fixed. I didn't have a problem with that part either- if your vehicle is spewing out more than it's fair share of fumes, it should be fixed.

Louisville has stopped the VET test, and as I recall, the biggest reason for discontinuing the program was people saying how inconvenient it was to get their cars tested once a year. Wow. It usually only took 30 minutes start to finish.

I got my emission test last week at, " While U Watch". I made sure I filled in the memo space of the check I wrote. I know what I'd think if I saw this in FBB's checkbook! :shock::funn:

 

[Lady D]

There are three vehicle inspection stations here. And the best one to go to is on Washington Avenue downtown as for being the least busy. But the White Station one is very close to us right by the interstate but is always busy now, usually out to the street and wrapped around onto the next street, and the Lamar Ave one is busy also now. The first of the month is the busiest time and it used to be the middle of the month was a great time to go. We kept watching the lines last month around the middle of the month and it was backed up all three lanes out to the street for two weeks solid. So the tag on the one car expired because we could not get it through before we went on vacation. But we lucked up yesterday with the Washington Ave. one yesterday, had only 1 or 2 cars in it. We can check them by webcam that refreshes every 60 seconds. They keep incorporating these Shelby County communities into the city of Memphis and then they have to go through also which doubles the number of cars.

 

[Minnie]

Inspections here are based on the renewal of your car tags, when they expire you can not purchase a new one until you have gone thru and passed inspection.

At least your cracked windshield is an easy fix. My husband's 89 Chevy truck has failed 4 times and we have had it at 3 different repairs shops and it's at number 4 right now, we me driving and picking him up daily from work.

We have spent close to $1000 getting fixed and it still will not pass emissions and it does not even smoke.

We hope the hot weather recently in August with record highs over 100 for days was the cause and a break in the weather with some rain and cooler temps will help. His tag expired on the 31st and we are on a 30 day probation, even though during that time you can still get a ticket and then you have to go to court to get it dismissed.

I want to move so bad. :angry:

 

[Lady D]

Inspections here are based on the renewal of your car tags, when they expire you can not purchase a new one until you have gone thru and passed inspection.

At least your cracked windshield is an easy fix. My husband's 89 Chevy truck has failed 4 times and we have had it at 3 different repairs shops and it's at number 4 right now, we me driving and picking him up daily from work.

We have spent close to $1000 getting fixed and it still will not pass emissions and it does not even smoke.

We hope the hot weather recently in August with record highs over 100 for days was the cause and a break in the weather with some rain and cooler temps will help. His tag expired on the 31st and we are on a 30 day probation, even though during that time you can still get a ticket and then you have to go to court to get it dismissed.

I want to move so bad. :angry:

Minnie, can you tell me what all they replaced on his truck? Sometimes something like the pcv valve can cause an emission problem as can a oxygen sensor. My husband said to ask if they replaced the catalytic convertor. That sometimes plays a big part in emission problems. Things like the air filter can even affect emissions. We want out of Memphis also but cannot afford to move, we would never be able to unload this house. It does make you mad. Our house note went down last month the lowest ever at $708.00 a month, and now all of a sudden I just a notice in the mail from the mortgage company that notified me of the mortgage payment adjustment back in July, now they have raised it back to nearly where it was before it dropped in amount, for all of 1 month we got to enjoy an $18 a month decrease in our mortgage payment. And I am sure it is due to a property tax increase somewhere or a increase in the homeowners insurance premium. Everything sucks here. My husband just got his car through yesterday, the tag on it expired August 31st, and I have to take the one through with the cracked windshield this month as the tags on it are up the end of September.

 

[seaside2]

Lady D, Minnie:

Time to get out of Willie World. Are you wondering why so many people live outside the Memphis city limits or in another county or even the M or A states?

This car inspection thing is the tip of the Willie World iceberg. Memphis politics and procedures SUCK. Taxes are way too high for what you get, the public official corruption makes you want to upchuck, and on and on we go.

Get out while the getting is good!!!

Rant over, soap box back under bed.

 

[ShallowsNole]

No. Thank goodness. But I am sure somebody will propose it eventually.

Florida USED to do them. Cross your fingers they don't re-enact it.

 

[Smiling JOe]

One pain in the butt thing about all of the different requirements needed to be met in order to drive, is the fact that no two are done at the same time and place. I still don't know why we cannot get our driver's license at the same place we get our car tags (and vehicle inspections). I hear that Okaloosa County is one of two counties in FL which will actually make this possible, but why the hell did it take this long, and why isn't Walton Co riding the same bus?

 

[Biff]

OUR state; on that same note S.J.- JUST imposed the objective to take the driving test in Spanish 6 yrs ago; prior to that; if (and I am not intending on getting into the immigration issue or sanction(ed) cities, but.....:roll: ) one were to attempt to take our test and did not speaka da engla~, they would just trot up to Kansas; and Whalla; instant DL...(there were at that time no other options) ...imagine that...???

of course i am sure 911 had some objective in the new implementation/polices for D.L. and such is that...... nation wide....

One pain in the butt thing about all of the different requirements needed to be met in order to drive, is the fact that no two are done at the same time and place. I still don't know why we cannot get our driver's license at the same place we get our car tags (and vehicle inspections). I hear that Okaloosa County is one of two counties in FL which will actually make this possible, but why the hell did it take this long, and why isn't Walton Co riding the same bus?