Got a question for you guys with inspection stickers. How much do they cost and how thorough is the inspection. We used to have inspections here in Oklahoma and they were $5, done at any appoved inspection facility (lots of service stations, garages, etc). The state kept $2.50 and the inspection station kept $2.50. All in all, obviously, not a very profitable thing for the garage or service station. Thus, when inspected, it wasn't much more than a quick pass at looking at a few things and bang, you were on your way. Several millions of bux every year for the state. But eventually, with the inspectors complaining about the time it took to do a real inspection and the costs involved, Oklahoma dropped their inspections. Don't have them anymore and to be honest, I don't miss them. Just wondering how thorough the inspections are in other states?

New York is very thorough, they visually check the car on a lift, put a sniffer up the tail. You can fail for many reasons, including having a broken tail light and attempting to fix it by putting red tape on it. No tape must be new lens. Use to be if you knew someone pay the price and get a sticker. But now with undercover investigators, you take a chance. In most of the cities, if you are spotted without a sticker, you run the risk of a moving violation ticket or/and a parking ticket and they are not cheap. Fail to pay the parker and become a scofflaw, NYC will tow ANY vehicle in you name that they find on the street.
This is info from my son, a New York State MV inspector.

If you continue to fail, they will suspend your registration. Can't take stickers off other cars or discarded windshields, cause you tag info on them. Heard California is even worse. NJ is also a pain if your car isn't right.

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Inspections here are 16$ the sticker cost the garage 2$ and each inspection is supposed to take 1 hour a lot of places do it in less than that. I know one place does it in ~15 min and they dont even put it up on a rack.

Maybe that's in Comack, But not in the Big Apple, especially since the big ticket scandal. If you ain't right, you get wrote. In the small towns, it works, heck here in SC, pull someone over and ask for a DL and they say , I forgot it , but I know my number, once it's verified a good license, no problem. Try that in NYC. I also believe that a replacement sticker can be gotten by mail, I could be wrong, have not been there in ten years.

Just for info, NYC has their own traffic regs and is enforced by meter maids, civilian traffic officers, cops, fireman, sanitation, Sheriff's Office, court officers, Dept. of Corrections. This is on top of the state reg's for moving violations. Get a ticket for Mutilated sticker and park and get another parking ticket for the same and no they are not thrown out as being a duplicate. Why take the chance, get new stickers. Back when I was there, Some officers I knew wrote 50-100 tickets a night, carried a ruler for proper height, had a sound meter for loud radios. If your tag was in the window=improper display, missing an inspection sticker, then your car was uninspected. If it appeared re-stuck on another window, then it was mutilated..........Just my two cents.....................:smash:
Retired NYPD, been there, done that. 0911, WE WILL NEVER FORGET.

I had the windshield replaced in my Suburban. Mobile service guy replaced windshield, removed several stickers (Condo Gate entry, Yacht club & city parking pass) and reattached them perfectly to the new WS. Didn't watch him do it, but you couldn't tell they were touched.

Just what I did 30 years ago
 

The old glass is free; go for it:flaghalfmast:

I'm having a windshield replaced on my 4runner tomorrow. I think here in Mississippi, we need to get a new sticker with a new windshield :(. I'll see.

That sounded like a good deal, not all installers have the expertise. :smash: