Sorry, just have to vent a little. Took 2 hours to get a state inspection done and the guy comes in at the end and goes "here this is for you" (hands me a glass scraper) "you gotta take off your front tint" so i had no choice but to do so, right then and there. The guy proceeds to start telling me all about is mid 90's toyota corolla that he raced, and supposedly beat, against a Supra TT... soooo annoying. Lot of good it did too makin me take off the tint, considering i stopped at the auto store on my way back to work and picked up a new roll of tint, and now my Max is sittin in the garage with some fresh, better tint on his front windows. But man that guy kept goin on and on and on about his friggin corolla... i still put down more hp stock than him and all his mods too. ah the VQ

 

OMFG..what state are you in? I would have told the guy to blow me and went to another garage.

 

 

i would have done that, but i needed the friggin inspection sticker today. i kinda waited till last minute to get it (stupid me) and this was the only place that could do it today. next time i'm goin to my normal shop near my house where they dont care if ya have 5% tint all around like on my old car

 

I thought that 35% was legal all around.Or unless you have a darker tint in front?

 

nah its 35% all around. guess its not legal here in NH... never had a problem with cops, so i'm not too concerned. its tinted again now

 

Here in Jersey, the car will fail inspection if you have the front windows tinted. On my old car, I went to inspection one year with the windows rolled down and got busted when the person doing the inspection rolled up the windows (I guess they thought it was kinda odd to see someone with their windows down in 40 degree weather ) The following year I went, I did the samething. That time they didn't roll the windows up. I guess it I got luckly that time around

 

Oklahoma did away with state inspections 2 or 3 years ago. Don't know if that's good or bad, kind of makes me nervous when I'm driving next to a POS

 

the only legal tint in pa for a car is 70%...i said **** that i got 20% ...i hate PA..

 

Here's a good site to check the tint laws

http://www.pcisys.net/~bpc/auto_law/tint/

 

NH law, no tint on the front, 35% back. I got 50% on the front 'cuz I didn't want to deal with

 

inspection for what? I got 20% all the way around and have no trouble with it at all. Hell in a few places here in AZ we done even have emissions

 

State safety inspection... states are allowed to have different laws about tint... NH just happens to suck a** with what they allow (or don't, as the case may be)

 

To be honest, I have never heard of state saftey inspecion I guess over here in the west coast they dont care

 

yep, every year they check lights, horn, brakes, exhaust (tubing and equipment, like cats... we don't have emissions testing), and other stuff like tint, rust (supposedly illegal to have a rust hole in your car).

it sucks, but it's also good I guess.

 

lucky bastard...haha
never move to PA....there laws suck here

 

Seriously how the hell do you mod a car there, you cant do **** w/o them b!tching about it. So you cant even have an exhaust or wtf that really sucks. We have emissions here but new cars dont need to worry about it for 5 yrs. So I dont have to worry about it til 2006, unless you live in flagstaff then you can register cars and drive them STREET LEGAL like the one on my homepage page 3. Not that is some scary ****

 

well you can get exhaust...you just have to keep the cat. on.
If your cars too loud or what not you can get a ticket...
They gives tickets out like crazy where i live its ****ing gay...
I can't wait to get outa this state...
Oh yeah one more thing...they screw you on inspections and the roads in PA also suck ****in *****...worst roads ever here

 

yep, keep the cat on and you should be fine. But there are states (Mass is one, I think) where it's illegal to modify the exhaust from factory AT ALL. People do it all the time, but I believe it's illegal so if you p*ss off the cop and have a modded exhaust, it's another $200 (IIRC).

BLKMAX005SPD, I have to disagree with you about one thing, though... I am extremely happy the cops are ticketing for loud mufflers. They're ticketing cars, harleys, trucks, people who modified the exhaust, have a hole in the exhaust, new cars, sh*tboxes... ANYTHING that's loud.

I even called the cops and told them where to sit and what time. This kid in a BMW drives by my house every night at 2am and has an exhaust that wakes me up and I sleep with an A/C right next to my head! I laughed out loud when I saw the blues light up at 2am

 

I really dont blame you that would get soooo anoying. What really gets anoying is idiots who turn their stereo up all the way and cruise by the neighborhood after 11pm, with the subs goin its just common sense that your gonna wake alot of people up and it gets on my nerves when they cruise by at like 2-3 bumpin

 

Now in Jersey any car purchased model 2001 and up - u have a 4 year
window before your first inspection- I go to a garage anyway though and pay the money-they only care about emmisions

 

I live in NH as well. Where did you take your car to be inspected?

 

front tint isn't part of inspection in NY

 

d'oh. Maryland only has inspections on used cars when you transfer a title. And emissions inspections every 2 years...

 

Haha, beats me, but people do it enough--Hanover, PA (a few miles away from me) might as well be a 24/7 auto show 'cause there are ricers all OVER the place. Hell at night you always see caravans of ricers driving along Eisenhower Dr.
I just grin when I blow past them in 3rd gear in my VQ30DE ;-)

 

well i have to agree with you on the exhaust if its way to loud...but somthing like the greddy sound is fine with me...Nothing like the riced out honda or chevy's.
But tell the cops where to sit...daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn dude thast just ****.
But whatever we all like different things