Re: Maryland Inspection (again)
From: atikovi (atikovi@email.com)
Date: Fri 12 Mar 2004 - 19:51:19 EST
No legit inspector is going to pass a car if it has obvious defects.
It's the borderline items that can turn a cheap inspection into an
expensive one and a lot of what borderline items he determines will
pass or fail can be influenced by what side of the bed the inspector
got up on or if his boss got on his back earlier in the day. If you
get cars inspected regularly it's a good idea to stick to one
inspector and "get to know him" and be nice and friendly, showing
interest in what he is doing and making sure he knows that you do all
the work on your car yourself. That last bit is quite important since
the MD inspection system has an inherent conflict of interest because
the more defects the inspector finds, the more money the shop makes
since they assume that if you already have the car there, you will
just let them do the repairs instead of spending more time taking it
somewhere else and coming back for a re-inspection. As to the
inspection itself, it doesn't matter if the car is a Peugeot or a
Pontiac, they all have tires, brakes, mufflers, lights etc. that go
bad. While you may think "everything on it is good.. except maybe the
headlight adjusters," there are many unexpected items that can cause
a car to fail such as a missing battery hold down, inoperative
windows, inoperative speedometer or odometer, aftermarket window
tint, missing emissions parts, missing lug nuts, etc. Again, if you
get MD inspections regularly, it would be a good idea to get a copy
of the inspection manual which lists the 25 or so areas that are
checked and what constitutes a failure. At $50 to $80, the MD
inspection is one if the most expensive state inspections in the
country and the repairs required to pass can easily cost over $1,000
on older vehicles. If you think the inspectors failed an item that
clearly should have passed, you may be able to get the MD state
police to have a look at it since they supervise the inspection
system. The next time you by an older car you may want to include in
the negotiations that the seller get an inspection certificate before
the sale or at the very least the car go in for an inspection so at
least you know what it needs.
--- In peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com, biggyg@h... wrote:
>
> Time to take my recently aquired 1989 SW8 turbo through Maryland
state
> inspection.. and I am not looking forward to it. I know everything
on
> it is good.. except maybe the headlight adjusters.. but I would like
> to know if anyone knows someone who knows these cars... and is
> preferably Peugeot friendly (cause the word "French" hasn't been one
> of the highly regarded words lately) that can do such an
inspection..
>
> Please let me know.
>
> Thanks
>
> Gashaw.
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