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
OT. Is is time to bring back the inspection
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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.
Yep, I went to a similar place. All you needed was $5 and a windshield to put it on.
My favorite is car tags covered with dark plastic so you can't read them .
What about all the cars on the road in Ms today with one headlight from either one being burned out or one side of the car being crunched from a wreck. Dangerous as heck. The stupidity of new pickup trucks with there headlights so bright on dim that they totally blind you oncoming. The one that blows my mind and if I was police officer would be really angry about is these people that tint their windows so dark that you can’t tell if someone is actually is driving the vehicle. They even tint their front windshield. On a routine traffic stop a cop can’t tell if the driver is on the other side of the window is holding a gun pointed at them. Yes there were places you could get inspection sticker by just showing up.
The inspection division of the Highway Patrol no longer exists so they’d have to start from scratch. Inspections were a joke, right blinker, left blinker , brake lights, and horn. That’s if they actually did that, most of the time they just slapped a sticker on your windshield. Everything you mentioned is punishable by the Highway Patrol if they wanted to enforce it.
Tell us you are old enough to draw social security without telling us you are old enough to draw social security.
Yes, we need more government oversight in our lives.
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.
The old halogen headlights only put out about 1000 lumens. New cars have LEDs which are more blue light and put out 4000 lumens. Not to mention after market headlights that go much brighter than that… sometime up to 10k lumens.
The real issue though is the positioning. The average driver of a compact SUV is going to go blind meeting a jacked up truck with aftermarket super bright LEDs even though the truck driver has his lights on “dim” due to simple height difference. Truck driver never knows how much of a jerk he’s being because he’s not on the receiving end.
The real issue though is the positioning. The average driver of a compact SUV is going to go blind meeting a jacked up truck with aftermarket super bright LEDs even though the truck driver has his lights on “dim” due to simple height difference. Truck driver never knows how much of a jerk he’s being because he’s not on the receiving end.
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.
I’m 59 and lived in Ms all my life. I’ve never had a vehicle actually inspected beyond turn signals, brake lights, and horn. I knew a guy who owned a shop that used to do inspections, he said that to do an actual inspection it would take a minimum of 30 minutes. He got $2.50 for an inspection and paid a mechanic over $20 an hour to do it. It was a losing proposition for him. No, he wasn’t the only place I got a sticker. I did have a patrolman check window tint at a traffic stop one time. I do understand the need to do something about the bright lights , my wife has eye issues and bright lights absolutely blind her for several seconds. I wouldn’t want to meet her on a two lane rd with overly bright headlights.
Now they would say an inspection is discriminatory because it imposes a "hardship" on poor people. Back in the day we had full testing in Memphis, emissions, lights, brakes. I remember I failed once due to a burned out tail light. I was pissed because the wait to get retested was 30 minutes on a good day and 1 hour plus on a bad one.
If the state would do an actual mechanical inspection and get the dangerous crap off the road, I would be for it. New cars could be exempt and the inspection could be delayed until the vehicle is 8 to 10 years old. It would not have to be yearly; every 3 years should be plenty often. Loud exhausts could be tested at the same time.
And while we are on exhaust noise, large trucks should be required to keep their factory mufflers. All these signs you see saying "No Engine Brake" would not be needed if they weren't running straight pipes on the exhaust. The entire countryside doesn't need to know there is a redneck passing by.
And while we are on exhaust noise, large trucks should be required to keep their factory mufflers. All these signs you see saying "No Engine Brake" would not be needed if they weren't running straight pipes on the exhaust. The entire countryside doesn't need to know there is a redneck passing by.
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.
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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?
I'm sure some inspection places took it seriously, but I would wager the vast majority did not. A buddy of mine went to a place on the point in Biloxi and the old man working would give him the sticker and a scraper to go put his own sticker on while the old man filled out the paperwork.
I would add proof of liability insurance to the inspection sticker list. Fla. used to require it. Remember when they told us "If everyone is required to have liability insurance everyone's rates will drop and no one will be left holding the bag in an accident?" Yeah riiiight.
I remember when the only one was the old one off Washington down town. Right around the corner was an old building where people would be lined up in the parking lot adjusting their headlights against the brick wall so they could get back in line and go through again.
Bad cars aren't so prevalent. Bad drivers are.
Make a real driving test and force a bunch of places into mass transit systems.
Make a real driving test and force a bunch of places into mass transit systems.
I can drive my truck and never be bothered by headlights but am about blinded in my wife’s SUV. Lights are definitely brighter but the height of vehicles play a bigger factor.
And a lot of these new vehicles it’s a pain in the arse to adjust the lights.
My wife’s palisade will blind you with the light of 1000 suns on “dim” if you meet it at the wrong angle. On flat roads it’s fine. But if we’re meeting someone while topping a hill, I can see the people inside the car plain as day.
The dim lights are positioned really low on the vehicle and don’t project out well. My theory is Hyundai made them extra bright to compensate for the poor positioning
The dim lights are positioned really low on the vehicle and don’t project out well. My theory is Hyundai made them extra bright to compensate for the poor positioning
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.
How long have you guys been without inspection? We started losing our inspection in Texas in January.
I'd say 20 years or more. . Don't remember the last time. I don't want to go back, it was an annoyance.
Is it not true? Us crotchety old 17's can complain about one thing and do another simultaneously. It's called multitasking. There's a joke about your momma somewhere in here, I just can't bear to type it**. Seriously, we love you man... Hail State!
I can ***** and complain all at the same time. On a good day I can even lament along with the bitching and complaining but I never want to see inspection stickers again.
Memphis built new multi lane inspection stations and then closed them all in 2013.
this 100%. man I drive a Jeep and these three story trucks coming from the opposite way will blind the crap out of you. I live in a somewhat rural part of Brandon so from my house to Govt. St is about 4 miles of two lane roads so just got to deal with it.
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I did. We had tint machines too. I had people beg and bribe me to pass them and i refused because my *** wasn’t getting in trouble. They’d scream at me up and down. Listen, I didn’t make the law, I just abide by it. Never understood why people get mad at others for doing the right thing. On the flip side we replaced a lot of lights for free if the person went to Autozone and bought the bulb.
The inspection division was losing around $1.5 million a year is why it was closed.
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