No heater at all ??

[bcschief]

Hell here in Florida you never see State Troopers or DOT doing commercial truck roadside inspections anymore.

 

[Dave999]

here in the UK anything over 40 years, if registered as a historic/club vehicle, No Test...... (although that only been the case for 10 years and they are consulting on changing it back)
unless you want to have a test.
I go after i have taken it all apart and put it back together.... second set of eyes for £34, bargain

Anything else newer, online nationally approved test at qualified certified test centre, test detail is dictated by age of car and the law since it was made.
if it fails on an aspect that makes it dangerous to drive (in the view of the tester) you have to get it fixed there...
any warning lights on the dash on....auto fail
any chip in the windscreen in line of sight while driving auto fail.
the seat back is nt in a fixed position fail
anything loose or sharp fail
tyres outside of fenders fail....
US style plate that fits US style plate frame Fail (if he cares enough or doesn't like you)
noisy bearings
any free play
any rust damage within a specific distance of a load bearing structure
any welding visible deemed not OEM on steering components.....
Emissions
brake efficiency
structure
tyres (you will get a warning if your tyres are aged in any way)
headlamp aim
activation of governor on a diesel
etc etc fail fail fail...

cops can pull you at any time and demand proof of a pass
national breakdown services won't rescue you from the motorway if you have no test, have to go for a local garage
your insurance is invalid with no test pass
no test no insurance, repeat offender, you can go to prison... fine and 5 year ban more likely

it has to be on the ramp/in the bay for 40 minutes minimum.

UK MOT test not as hard to pass as the German TUV test but it is kinda rigorous

Dave

 

[MechNerd]

It's amazing to me that people have become so accepting of these smog/safety testing scams. My state quit smog testing many years ago when it became common knowledge that it hadn't benefitted air quality one iota.
Used to have to pay a couple bucks extra to have the tech beat the computer to get a "pass". They would lean out the fuel and pull the probe further out of the tail pipe, and voila!, new car for a year. I feel REALLY bad for the UK and Germany...

 

[nutz]

The get it fixed there is the scam
In pa they write up cars for stuff when they are slow I guess ...your cv boots are bad ..

 

[nutz]

At least in nj they have state inspection that is free

 

[Dave999]

well my journey home after work each night uses a 4-5 lane highway passed heathrow airport
the speed limit ranging from 70- 40 mph depending on the day, ita variable zone. it is set based on congestion and air quality...
its also a "Smart Motorway" so every 300 yrds or so there is an induction loop under the road and they measure how many people are driving nose to tail.... the more that do that, the lower they set the limit...
a 45-55 minute commute can be 90 minute depending on air quality and stupid driving

the air quality in the area is dictated by Europe's busiest airport. Not me on my commute...
but they don't make the planes slow down or indeed the rate of take off
...full throttle aero fuel exhaust all over West London.... for 20 hours a day.

Motorway Traffic Cameras - Live CCTV image, M25 Anticlockwise - J14, Heathrow Airport

makes me laugh people chuntering on about "chem" trails... just stand at Hatton Cross and breathe deeply...... 12 jumbo jets "stacked" across london waiting to land all with an inch of fuel left in their tanks


everywhere is "different"

Dave

 

[nutz]

Wow they do that ....
If if a Detroit diesel drives down your highway it can shut down rush hr

 

[Dave999]

yeah we packed 70 million people into a space the size of Michigan...

you got 38m in California which is bigger, its like a michigan and a half

 

[nutz]

Yea im ok with emissions inspection
When they can make 1000hp and pass emissions im good with that

 

[Dana67Dart]

the air quality in the area is dictated by Europe's busiest airport

Here in Colorado, we have to get smog checks.

The funny thing is because where we are in relation to the Rockies and the jet stream we get all kinds of smog smoke ozone etc for Utah, Wyoming etc. and we get dinged of our ozone is out of wack.

Kind of like the LA basin, which the indigenous, before the white man, called the valley of smoke.

 

[nutz]

Yea was in some training class and they said
Colorado and la have a stagnate air flow
Nox gases are bad there

 

[Ded Sirius]

Without a defrost/defog I doubt that it would pass a safety inspection.

In what state? Here in Missouri,lights, brakes. That's all they look at.

 

[CFD244]

In what state? Here in Missouri,lights, brakes. That's all they look at.

We're in Canada. I'm in Ontario and the OP is in Alberta.