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Oh Six! I Do folks, it's the element there. She is freshly inspected. Let me show you a little something here. It's a bit of a rant video.
Here's the inspection paper from the shop: Uh, this thing failed. Uh, well. let's first of all, let's go up here. It passed the safety part.
It failed the emissions and at that point it had 111 254 on the clock and it's issued. 10 day was to 5 19. today is 7 19. so it's two months later.
Customer: States The car's been sitting. Uh, what was the date? Five Nine is when it was uh, originally inspected 111 254. So let's see how many miles this thing has gone. 111 770.
according to my calculations, it's 516 miles. Customer: States The engine light was on, shop fixed it and he had to keep driving it. hence the 500. Miles the money light remained on and that's why it ended up my shop because I actually needed it fixed.
They couldn't do the reset, you know, keep driving it bit I fixed the money light. The guy says, well just throw a slap the sticker on it I've already had it checked over for safety said yeah, let's get after that buddy. So let's have a look at 516 miles. Well what do we got here? That's got classic broken spring.
It's right up here. Coil springs broke off got pretty Rusty Uh in 516 miles? So boy that's quite a coincidence. You know, Holy Snackies! looks like it has a broken spring too. Look at that.
I Can't believe that 516 Miles snap that coil spring off. What the heck? Take a stroll underneath here. Oh man. I Sway bar link broke in the last 516 miles too.
I Cannot believe how this fondue is falling apart. I Like this one the best. You already have a listen. I Really Turn It yeah she's straight ground through the pad through the caliper in front.
If you guys can see the disc in there, probably not, but she looks like a record baby. You barely turned this. Oh awesome yeah, she's super super sweet. Let's send it only minor rust on this one yo.
I Know the funny part about this folks. Let me show you something. You see my sign up there: State Inspection sign registered motor vehicle New York City Inspector It's got black lettering on it. You know a little funny part about that black cluttering is I got written up for it by New York State and almost lost my license over it.
Why is that? Because I had white lettering on it instead of black? I actually had to take the sign down and change it because the color of the lettering was wrong and it was against the law. Yeah, we got this kind of being pulled all the time. Every freaking shop that brings a car here with the engine light on. This is what we deal with and I show you guys and you guys criticized me over it.
Some of you do, but it's just frustrating because here I am going to lose my license because I have the wrong colored letters on my sign. Yeah! I Got this shop giving it a stamp of approval that everything on this car is safe. Mind you, all the stuff that I showed you just failed in the past 516 miles and we know that's true and that'll be the excuse. I Could show this video to any New York State Inspector that comes in that audits our shop and they'll laugh at me and say you have a nice day, let me see your inspection reports. Oh, you got one out of order. Guess what? We're going to rate you up. It's just a ramp folks. This kind of stuff just pisses me off and there's nothing that the state will do about it.
I Could call the 800 number around here for the 518 number and it doesn't matter. they won't do anything about it. The customer has to turn the shop in for doing a crappy job. But the people that take the cars like this to the shop.
This is what they want. They want a crappy job, They want a sticker and that's it. So needless to say I fixed the engine light I'll get paid for that and Adios! This guy will go down the road. He'll get the drive cycle done, they'll go back.
They'll slap a sticker on it. He'll have a nice day and uh, you folks, you have a nice day Foreign.
Get the hell out of NY!!!
A sad situation, but I doubt that New Yuck is the only place this happens.
Any state that has state inspection for vehicles are scammers. These mechanics in those states just make up stuff to fail your vehicle. Not saying all mechanics do it but I know a scam when I see it. Talking to you Massachusetts
It's all about the money…prny only cares they they get a cut.
NY might as well do away with the safety inspection program if mechanics can't be honest.
3 times I have done this on my ram truck and I thought it's so time consuming now I know that it's not only me
All state inspections are a royal scam. Get this, up until about 1980 or so the state of New Hampshire used to make you get your car inspected every six months but then somebody decided to be merciful and make it once a year. I’m so glad I live in a no inspection state.
Sounds like another govt employee justifying his job doing the bare minimum! Doesn’t want to investigate a shop passing the shit car but can write a report that the colour of your numbers were wrong.. so typical
Pitiful at best. I have decades of experience and see this same shit all the time in a different state….same bull crap from the top down
Yep, being good and honest usually results in extra scrutiny. But keep doing the right things. You can sleep at night.
White lettering is a known distraction to drivers. Could cause a multi-vehicle accident.
California doesn't have a safety inspection. You wouldn't believe the all of the crazy things ive seen over the years. Like a loose tie rod end only held on by a nail.
Im retired now. Thanks for the excellent videos.
had a customer come to the shop one time for an inspection and failed for window tints. guy made a huge problem over it and was very pissed off so he took it to another shop that didn’t care and just slapped the sticker on and sent the customer on his way. the customer at this point was satisfied but still mad as hell at the first shop that failed his car.
so he called dmv and filed a report against the shop that failed his car over window tints when the other shop passed him with no issue.
and ended up getting the shop that tried to do him a favor in very very big trouble. always do a full and complete inspection on whatever you are working on sometimes its not the car that will get you in trouble its the person that you are dealing with
You should move to the red state in the pacific North West. blue states suck.
Oh but the sign inspector gets it right every time. It's scary what junk the various states let go down the road–especially those with safety inspections! We don't have inspections-and with shitty enforcement like that-we don't need any.
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I agree NYS safety inspections are a joke, lets get rid of them. If you don't maintain you vehicle guess what, eventually your car will break down and the problem will solve itself!!!!! Other states don't have inspections and data suggests that there are no higher instances of accidents or danger to the public??
Sounds awfully similar to Pa inspection. Some days I don't know if I want to keep my license.
NO inspections where I live. You wouldnt believe the crap driving down the road!
Correction…Not the wrong colored letters on your sign…The wrong sign altogether.And those springs hardly make the vehicle unsafe for the road.That is the purpose of an inspection…not to be nitpicked over every tiny little thing that isnt factory perfect.The brakes and the sway bar on the other hand are very important for safety.
Eric, you are obviously not "tipping" the state inspector properly. The other shop seems to.
What is the sense of having registered state inspected garages then? That makes no sense. I live in Canada and the city I live in if you go to Midas Muffler for a out of province inspection and it fails and you do not authorize Midas to do the work, the disassemble some part of your braking system so you can not drive it and they call a tow truck to have it towed to where ever it needs to go. How do I know you ask. I used to be the one to tow these vehicles out. It is kind of dirty on Midas Mufflers parts but they are protecting their inspection license.
Its all about control.
Government please make sure my neighbor is doing everything possible to make me safe
NY can certainly eat a vehicle alive!
they gonna light you up for giving them a bad name. shame on you for being good.
When a unsafe car leafs your shop, you should let the customer sign something…..
You think its bad in the PRNY? Should come to Columbus Ohio…we dont have inspections…the cars on the road are a nightmare to other drivers. Ive veen buying and selling and trading and fixing cars for over 14 years… the amount of cars that are just like this or worse that ive looked at over the years is sickening. And people dont care. They just want "freedom" but don't care about safety. And these same people put their kids in their cars…it makes me just as mad as you Eric. I have a son too, if theres any safety or structural issue, i won't touch it. If its not safe for my son, its not safe for me or others on the road
I am so glad we don't have inspections but you guys in the rust belt need a rust inspection at minimum 😮
Just saw this. Idaho used to have safety inspections too. When they found out that people just wanted the sticker, they tied to come down on the inspection stations but they were Abe to show how stupid the damn law was. Most of the violators were the elected representatives who were mostly farmers. Only took three years for the law to be rescinded. Still don’t have one and that’s been 40 years ago.
Sure you aren't in northeast pa? Cuz deja vu 🤣
I’ve been written up for the same thing wrong colored letters isn’t NY GREAT!
that is why we moved out of the PRNY, to the PRIL or more truthfully, the PRC (People's Republic of China aka People's Republic of Chicago). different state, same crap.
Is your Safety Inspection program run by the State Police? It is in Maryland, and a shop or the vehicle owner can call the officer in charge of the area and request a re-inspection or lodge a complaint. Finding major safety issues that had just passed by another shop puts you in a bad position. But you still have to do what's right. And my State Troper said to me, " If I have to come here and put my overalls on someone is going to pay". It wasn't going to be me so nobody got a free pass. Not worth losing my license or having someone crash their car due to a problem that I recently passed.
There's more behind the sticker than just being allowed to drive the car on the road. Someone gets killed in your approved car, is that something you want on your conscience? Good thing you take your responsibility seriously Eric, I'd go to you just for that. You tell me how to keep the car safe to drive.
Ok. Quit PRNY. Please come to Colorado. We wanyt you. There is alot less rust here. Cars are a joy to work on.
It's like beating your head against a wall .
Maybe it's time for a mostly peaceful protest by the honest mechanic's against the state of NY.
Why mandate inspection when they can easily be bypassed?
There's only one criticism I have for Eric and that's living in New York State. It's a shame that it looks like a pretty nice and normal place, but the insane politics of the big cities control the state.
1). More of this please. The worst thing about Americans are our mouths, for a reason. Thus 1A 2.) Fans should not be doing this crap and I'd lean to blaming hate-watchers that exist in a minority of viewers that get the most vocal, so see 1A yet again. 3) Rules for thee but not for me. No one is worried about what color lettering is on a sign unless their an HOA queen that's stopped walking the 'hood and simply switched to being a YouTube HOA leader. "you can't have that deer! That shall be for the King!". Ya, mah belly.
Meh, I love ya being open as your fans follow you for this reason. Just waiting to hear someone else see this frustration cultivate. I'm on the other coast with stupid laws, you're on that side, while I'm raised exactly in the middle. Government should govern and get out of the way of the people, yet they regulate those that they can't regulate at all. This is just me, but look at anything the government enacts or creates…it all turns to trash. Everything.
I'm giving myself a pat on the back for not cussing once when I really want to when it comes to this. I'm going to grab a towel and head off to wipe a server…
NY is a cesspit nanny state because people keep voting for power grabbing liberals.
I bet you are a favorite of the state of NY inspectors bless you
Can't believe you even have inspection there any more, I live in Utah but used to live somewhat near you Eric up in Saranac NY. We don't have inspection here anymore just emissions, they claim safety inspections did not prove to save lives here. Cars also don't really rust here like they do in NY.
Honesty, integrity, and pride are hard to come by nowadays. You have all three. You are honest with everyone, you stand behind your work, and you take pride in your work. That is why you are always busy. Keep it up.
When I lived in Hawaii, vehicles required state inspections as well. Interesting enough that every time I took my car in for the inspection, my headlights were out of alignment. $15 inspection was now $65. The Navy base parking decal may have influenced the headlight issue……
Ridiculous new York 🤦
I am a DYI and attempt to go through my vehicles prior to inspection here in NH, though I have to do my work in the dirt. When I go to get the sticker, the guy I bring it to lets me walk through the inspection with him and I am able to see what I missed which will cause a failure so that I can repair it and bring it back or if something might be getting close and will need to be done prior to the next year. As an example one inspection he pointed out that the hitch was getting a little sketchy and even though I don't tow often or anything heavy and it would not fail inspection for it I replaced it prior to the next years inspection. Not sure how many other DYIers do this.
There was once a small town south of Watkins glen (racetrack sticker on the windshield) where a NYSI station/shop would have an actual line of cars (not parked but in a line just like a drive tru) where folks would pay a guy x amount of dollars and they would get a sticker slap. This probably 20 years ago and I thought it was hilarious and cool screwing the system but after becoming a licensed NYSI inspector later in life I realized how dangerous it can be. (Once had a car towed in with a broken spring curling down into the tire which popped the tire) The rot boxes of NY never disappoint. Good laughs and lots of “hooooly look at this one!”
I'd turn in the shop in a heartbeat.
You do an great job.
good money repairing these rusted hulks. why put up with this crap. sell the shop to some other schmoo and move out of frozen tundra NY and come to florida where there are no rules, no one cares, no mufflers, no rust, etc. And you wont have to pay NYS tax. i wish i could have left NY years ago. Thanks Covid! LOL
Thanks goodness I live in a state with out any inspections for safety or emissions.
We get to die like men while choking on the poison fumes.
Seriously need new politicians there. Actually, ya need people who know how to do the frickin job.
When did being honest and having integrity become a bad thing? It’s a shame that people are so ignorant of their own safety and just want a pass..
Someone should show the NYS how a TUV inspection is done in communist Germany.
Document it all!! CYA
Get this Eric, Here in the NC, the emissions test is pretty easy to pass: the do the beep, beep, check all the lights, do the emissions test, check the breaks, parking break, check the hazard lights, wipers. Lick'm and Stick'm, out the door. Then, our neighbor to the South, SC. NO state inspection required. You wouldn't believe the smoking wrecks that come across the state line everyday making our air quality so bad we get fines from Uncle Same for air quality. Oh yeah, you know that smoke from Canada, yeah we will likely get fined for those days too. Its all caused by the white supremacist's and the racist layout of roads, highways, racist bridges and racist mathematics taught by our schools. 🤣
welcome to my world my shop is in Spencerport NY I feel your pain last year I got nasty gram from yes inspector for running of stickers 1 day before the end of the year just like your sign now with my new nyvip3 3 weeks can't get a reply from opus like to tell ny where to stick the onion lol
Qld Australia goes one better. No inspections. Only need one to sell. And then same deal. Ask around. Find dodgy brothers. Get a roadworthy on a turd. Means nothing.
That's why I like Ohio. No inspections or emissions testing. That's pretty normal for a car here.
Ok isn’t government a wonderful idea that has turned out to be everything it shouldn’t be. I am from nj now in Maryland. So I have seen both sides of the coin : inspection state stations to no inspection stations Maryland.
Maryland allows dark glass Which as a nj native hate because I believe it creates a dangerous situation so drivers can drive without care. I can’t imagine a police man going up to car with dark glass so I assume this encourages police not to stop these drivers because they risk there life not being able to see the drivers about to do (guns). Nj would never allow this so state inspections are good in that respect. Plus nj state also checked brakes and lights. Good idea to see if you have proper brakes and lights. I have never understood how they allow present situations today with extremely bright blinding headlines Like idea of better head lites but not to the extreme that that they blind on coming cars!! Actually have “ nite glasses” to counter these lights. So who has approved these head lites???
Maryland does have inspections but only for emissions. So old cars are exempt only new ones?? Makes sense right. So they have inspections but checking for wrong thing as far as Safety concerned. 😂. Ny has its inspections but obviously very ineffective. Safety should be top of list unfortunately some states have it others don’t what a world.
Listen I love your show if I lived in ny state near you I would be your star client Keep up the good the good work don’t let the “you know what’s” get you down!!
EXTREMELY common in the State of Massachusetts!!! (Also VERMONT!)
"Somebody is doing "lick 'em, Stick 'em"
WHO CARES IF THE DANGEROUS, FALLING APART, PIECE OF SHEET IS ON OUR ROADS… (as long as the owner can still make it move under it's own power! Control and stopping are optional)
"I CAN'T AFFORD TO FIX MY CAR…. I'D RATHER TAKE A CHANCE OF KILLING SOMEONE!"
People cant handle the truth
This goes on everywhere. Where I live they do safety inspections but not Emissions.
There is no one inspecting the Inspectors.
😂😂😂 That's freaking hilarious!
Why…its element…ary……..
OHIO
As a NYS inspector, I have become numbed to all this bull .As far as your LICENSE, NYS MOTOR ASSES ONLY CARES ABOUT MAKING MONEY ON THERE INSPECTIONS .
Sad but true. The most important safety feature is the brake system. When our state was doing safety inspections the loudest gripes were brakes, tires and window tinting. My favorite excuse was: it passed last year. I applaud you for keeping your integrity.
If you have any questions don't post them here, they'll be ignored.
Sounds like the FAA. Totally absurd.
Yeah PA too… I think things can be less strict and still safe… but the inspectors of shops shouldn’t be such jagoffs. That’s just bologna about the paint. PA is weird about dumb stuff too though.
That car is Ohio mint though. 🙄
Gubermint bs. 😂
Sad to see when I know what you really make on an inspection…just a little more rust on the floor than in a Walmart bagged salad…..
As long as the letters are the correct color then it's pie in the sky baby!
I'm glad we don't have vehicle inspections in Wyoming or emissions tests. You have to have a magic 🎩 wallet to be able to afford in one of those inspections states
People's Republic at its finest
I'm the government.. I'm here to help
New York is a joke about everything in general
I see this type of stuff working in NY too. Fix the change engine light so they can take there car back to there buddy to slap a sticker on it
It's the same everywhere here in PA I was able to get stickers on a 10sec track car no interior full cage slicks. $75 and she was legal. Lol my buddy lives in Florida and there's no inspection at all.
One day the "dodgy" shop will end up killing somebody and then they will face jail term, stick to your guns and know you can sleep well at night being the safe guy who cares for peoples well being. 👍🏻
Connecticut Did away with their safety inspections yrs ago for that reason. It was rigged and people cheated the system.
It's a catch 22. Bottom line is we all need a job/money. The customer needs to get to work. The mechanic needs customers. The whole place needs insurance companies. The government needs to keep money pouring in. Your the bad guy in this scenario.
I remember in Missouri many years ago, brought my car in for state inspection. There was a state bigwig there that day, my car went on the lift and needed $2K of work on a $1.5K car.
I took it somewhere else, all it really needed was wiper blades and a turn signal bulb. All the rest was BS in unneeded repairs.
The whole system is a scam, the state knows this is going on in shops all across the state, they don’t care about safety, they care about getting their cut
No stickers needed in Florida
You sir are a true honest gentleman and respectful. Love your videos and thank you for being such a honest person
Keep doing the right thing, because in the end these scammers will all regret doing the wrong thing. Blue states love to punish those that do it the right way, but in the end they will fail. Great video Eric keep up to good work!
Only one solution for that problem Mr. O, vacate the state of New York. Come to Wisconsin! Lot's of rust and no state inspections haha
I take my car to one shop and only one shop and tell them every time I will fix anything that fails and I want it done right. It is very hard to find places that do you right on these inspections I am finding. I do not want to have an unsafe car. I put my family in that car.
Preach
Screw'em. I'd report them anyways.
Man I love this rant. I can say I've witnessed the customer side of this in person (Rochester area Chevy dealership). One of our techs failed a 2011 low mile (aka rusty) Silverado for sway bar links. One was broken, the other was missing. Advisor came out, talked to the customer and he looked the advisor straight in the face and said "oh really? Well I was just under there the other day and I didn't see anything". It was one of those moments where I would have LOVED to chime in and say "If you were just under there as you state, then you would have clearly seen something wrong" but of course gotta keep my mouth shut (now if I was a customer in the waiting room, I totally would have). Advisor let him know we were going to fail it, and then I spent the next two minutes listening to him bitch "they always find something wrong" "of course the dealership is trying to rip me off" blah blah blah. Customers will never learn.
He must have been rally racing for those 516 miles. 😂
Don't tread on them…
We here in BC Canada used to require safety checks annually,.. oh about 35 yrs ago,…now nothing .even when the car changes ownership…go figure
I'm in Mass it's the same shit here
@southmainautorepairllc This is pretty ominous coming from Luis. Hope all is well. Migjt need to sic Mrs. O on 'em, eh? Seriously, my prayers gonout to uou and yours for hour safety. I've given up holdimg out for any form of sanity, but still figure your safety still isn't too much to pray for!
Related @rossmangroup – Sorry to hear you say "something in common" Luis. Thanks for looking out for others. Would love to work doing ANYTHING if you can get your 503c sorted. Maybe Ron Paul might be able to help? I don't know, but I recently learned of the "ronpaulcurriculum" program, and even as a middle age, and resonably intelligent man, I'd take the course just to brish up if I could afford to. Besides, I dropped public school, because it was not teaching me anything I hadn't already known since grade 7 or 8, so . . . I went to work instead. It was much more licrati e, and I startrd doing what I love again – LEARNING NEW THINGS!
Sorry my comment might seem all over the place folks. Then again, y'all probably already totally understand that these days anymore, eh?
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Stay Vigilant, America!