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Re: "State of Bent Rims and Rust"
Posted by dtech (more from dtech) on Sat, 6 Mar 2004 10:28:01
In Reply to: "State of Bent Rims and Rust", Chris M, Fri, 5 Mar 2004 07:12:53
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I lived in Allegheny(sp) county, the taxes were unbelievable. But the state inspection system was exactly what you described, legalized rip off to support mechanics and extract additional revenues .
I think my 9000 was 8 yrs old with 150 k when i lived there, and the inspection stations all assumed that owners of high mileage cars would be accustomed to getting flunked and paying huge annual repair costs, i was shocked to hear what some people paid to get their vehicles passed every year.
I took my car to the husband of our day care mom, thinking this guy would at least be honest. Wrong, he wrote up brakes, windshield wipers, and found a dime sized hole in the exhaust. Well I was not close to needing new brakes, argued with the state central authority over the exhaust hole after patching it (no patching of exhaust is allowed). Then i simply found through word of mouth an honest station took it there and passed. What a corrupt, stinking, blood sucking, wretched,con artist, pia, out of date, underhanded joke of a program, and when I complained to Harrisburg, they told me " we used to require inspections TWICE A YEAR " my good lord.
After 4 yrs there, packed my family up, boogied back to CO, left leaving my local town's taxes unpaid for 6 months, and never, never looked back.
BTW, there is no vehicle inspection program in CO, just emissions.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Pennsylvania Is Now 'The State Of Independence', new guy, Thu, 4 Mar 2004 10:18:39
- "State of Bent Rims and Rust", Chris M, Fri, 5 Mar 2004 07:12:53
- new slogan: PA. The Pothole State n/m, KL, Fri, 5 Mar 2004 06:03:43
- The State of Taxes, PittE, Thu, 4 Mar 2004 20:51:29
- I thought is was the Keystone State! (nm), Rich, Thu, 4 Mar 2004 14:39:33
- Saab should have said "Sure, Governor, how many, JLowe, Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:52:45
- Re: Pennsylvania Is Now 'The State Of Independence', dtech, Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:05:39
- That is odd. PA doesn't look anything like the pictures, saw, Thu, 4 Mar 2004 10:56:58
- Re: Pennsylvania Is Now 'The State Of Independence', BillP, Thu, 4 Mar 2004 10:54:49
- suppose Killington would want to use that, too... (nm), JimBlake , Thu, 4 Mar 2004 10:45:35
- link, new guy, Thu, 4 Mar 2004 10:19:42
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