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Final version of bill to end vehicle inspections heads to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk (Texas to end vehicle inspections)
Texas Standard ^ | 5/29/2023 | Sean Saldana

Posted on 05/29/2023 6:15:38 PM PDT by vespa300

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Got to love this one. No doubt a done deal.
1 posted on 05/29/2023 6:15:38 PM PDT by vespa300
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I can get behind this one.


2 posted on 05/29/2023 6:17:34 PM PDT by ChuckHam
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Mexicans are all in on this one.

No brakes, bald tires, broken lights—what could possibly go wrong?

3 posted on 05/29/2023 6:22:47 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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Glad to see you came down on the more gubmint side of this argument.


4 posted on 05/29/2023 6:24:35 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: ChuckHam
With all the dumb, drunk Mexicans driving 30 year-old beaters I do not like this. They have to show insurance to pass inspection. That is useful. So is checking tire wear. Get rid of illegals before doing this. Also get rid of paper dealer tags that are widely counterfeited
5 posted on 05/29/2023 6:26:18 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: vespa300

car insurance rate increases to follow...


6 posted on 05/29/2023 6:27:35 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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On Guam only cars over three years old have to be inspected.


7 posted on 05/29/2023 6:30:45 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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WOW! OMG! the pollution this could cause. One more
scam to bite the dust. How to eat an elephant? One
bite at a time. Where is our governor? Speak up, man.
Allowing a man such as Ken Paxton be savaged by the jackals
shows such lack of courage on YOUR PART.
8 posted on 05/29/2023 6:31:43 PM PDT by V K Lee (Our CONSTITUTION. Written with DIVINE assistance by very wise men. A document Unlike any other.)
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I don’t know how happy you should be about lost jobs repairing and maintaining automobiles. The byproduct will be a reduction of safety on the highways.
With the real intended end result being less fossil fueled vehicles running we have here another green initiative foisted upon us thinly veiled as it may be.


9 posted on 05/29/2023 6:36:08 PM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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Ohio has no periodic inspection, although I think some urban counties require a smog test. I don’t see any jalopies in my area, which is said to be the poorest county in Ohio.


10 posted on 05/29/2023 6:36:17 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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Exactly. Texas is like only 1 of 13 states to still require inspections. Lots of noise here. Probably mechanics and Rinos.


11 posted on 05/29/2023 6:39:00 PM PDT by vespa300
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To: Fai Mao

LOL. They buy cheap liability and then cancel it. Inspections are worthless. They also buy stolen tires for next to nothing.


12 posted on 05/29/2023 6:40:41 PM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: vespa300

High time to end this. Nothing but a bureaucratic cash grab.

I was forced to get an inspection on my new car before I could register it in TX. It had 57 miles on it. Absurd.


13 posted on 05/29/2023 6:40:59 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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“The byproduct will be a reduction of safety on the highways.”

I call bullshit.

Cars pass inspection one day, and can be dangerous the next and stay that way for a year. Inspection is just a money grab for the state, and a chance for mechanics to generate income.

Removing mandatory inspection doesn’t make it legal to drive a dangerous car, they can still require good tires, good brakes, etc. without forcing you to prove it one day per year.

Other states have no annual inspection and you don’t hear about carnage due to everyone driving around on bald tires and no working brakes.


14 posted on 05/29/2023 6:41:30 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder. )
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“Got to love this one. No doubt a done deal.”

Likely so, but for people who live in “EPA Non- Compliance Zones” (over half of Texans), we still have to deal with annual “Emissions Inspections”.


15 posted on 05/29/2023 6:42:23 PM PDT by BobL
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I wouldn’t stand in front of it.

Minnesota doesn’t inspect cars. You should see the junk on the roads


16 posted on 05/29/2023 6:42:35 PM PDT by cableguymn
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“Exactly. Texas is like only 1 of 13 states to still require inspections.”

Holdover from the days when the Democrats ran Texas...


17 posted on 05/29/2023 6:43:14 PM PDT by BobL
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To: ChuckHam
Correct, and at the same time, older people up to age 85 can renew their license for 6 years, no problem.
18 posted on 05/29/2023 6:43:43 PM PDT by Theoria
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I’ve lived in San Antonio for 50 years. So I know the odds of being hit by a Mexican with no insurance in a junker car.

Therefore I’ve always carried Uninsured Motorist insurance.


19 posted on 05/29/2023 6:43:55 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (So it begins...Pulled on 05/29/2023 4:49:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson, reason: TDS article)
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“car insurance rate increases to follow...”

Plenty of states with inspections, and STILL with high car insurance rates.


20 posted on 05/29/2023 6:44:12 PM PDT by BobL
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