I've been informed the state of Texas has been cracking down on inspection shops therefore I can no longer get my 928 inspected.

The windows test at 16% where as the legal limit is 25%.

Now I'm faced with having to find a shop to redo the tint.

Excuse the rant.

 

Sorry, but I do not feel any pain for you. 25% is still pretty dark, especially at night.

I bought a car from someone who had tint which allowed only 6% light transmission. It was like driving in a tunnel. Could not wait to rip that crap off and get to the legal limit of 35% in my state.

 

Car-Rizma, 361-776-3873. 3278 N Main St, Ingleside, TX 78362

 

Who are you ranting against?

 

You put a target on this place because they're friends?

 

how can you drive at night at 16%?

my Subaru wagon still has the factory-applied tint on the rear side and hatch windows and you can barely see out well enough to reverse out of a parking spot at night.

 

This is what I wanted, thanks.

I've never noticed it.

 

a solution to re-tint his windows within spec. I've had a few of my 928's done there and they do excellent work for a reasonable price. You can also purchase a clothes steamer at Walmart and return when done to save a few $. T

 

Ok, thanks Tony. I saw that as "These guys will pass it..."

Apologies.

 

All fails are logged into a computer system now.

No skirting the system.

Tried it.

 

Roll windows down, pull fuse, take car to inspection station. No law that says you have to have operational windows.

 

The second place I took it to never rolled up the windows until the previous fail came up on the computer.

 

Then the original place were a bunch of dicks. They should never have started putting the car in the system if they knew it was going to fail. I've got several shops around me for inspections and each time I've had a one that would fail for some odd reason, they always said to get this taken care of first and then they would start putting stuff in the computer.

With any luck, Texas will do away with the inspections completely, they've already started the cost reductions and other things dealing with it.

 

Seriously, I hope not.

We could then be reduced to Oklahoma-style vehicles on our roads that are unsafe: no lights, no brakes, no signals, doors that don't open, smoke pouring out the tailpipe obscuring others' view of the road.

I'm not railing against Oklahoma or Oklahoma folk. Some are among my favorite people (at least when compared to Islamic State terrorists).

Being from Texas, one just has to like Oklahoma: the only reason that Texas doesn't fall into the Gulf of Mexico is that Oklahoma $ucks.

I was going to rant further about something completely different, but I forgot what it was. Regarding that, I heard that memory is the second thing that goes once you begin to age, but I don't remember the first.

 

That may be more damning to Oklahoma than a lack of inspections.

We have NO safety inspection whatsoever in California. The closest thing to it would be the "brake and light inspection" for a car that is being re-registered from a Salvage title for the first time...they make sure the brakes, the various lights, and the horn works, and send you on your way.

There aren't multitudes of patched-together ****boxes out here (aside from my 944).

Smog is another thing but...our doors don't have to work