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WakeboardrB
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Shit, just realized I've been driving with a expired inspection for 2 months
#15998299 - 03/26/12 11:24 AM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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It took a friend to point it out. Shit expired the end of January.
Now this is tricky, I went to a few places on the way home today and they all said they weren't taking walk ins for inspection, only if I left my truck there overnight.
Well I have an ignition interlock from my DUI, so leaving it overnight would be useless since my interlock requires you to blow into it for 3 seconds and then hum at a certain pitch while still blowing. Not something I want some dumbass greenhorn working at Firestone to do.
Fortunately I was able to set up an appointment for tomorrow morning at my brothers friends shop. Unfortunately it's at 7:20 and 25 minutes from my house. Fawk. And I have to miss my IOP class to make it and even worse, I have to break the terms of my restricted license to do it.
Hopefully if I do get pulled, I can tell them I had to get the inspection done and was going to go straight away to my IOP class. That should fly unless I get an asshole cop. Fortunately most of the cops around here aren't total dicks, although there are some out there. If they disagree with me stopping by the shop to get it inspected, it will be treated as me driving on a suspended/revoked license and I will probably go to jail.
Wish me luck.
-------------------- Same thing happened to me when I played Neil Armstrong in Moonshot. They found me in an alley in Burbank trying to re-enter the earth's atmosphere in an old refrigerator box.
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Re: Shit, just realized I've been driving with a expired inspection for 2 months [Re: WakeboardrB]
#15998429 - 03/26/12 11:54 AM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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Good luck, dude! I think you'll be fine. but if you get pulled over, just be courteous, y'know, put your keys on the dash, yes sir, no sir and what not.
Dude, I failed inspection three times this year for something that has been on my car for over a decade...
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WakeboardrB
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Re: Shit, just realized I've been driving with a expired inspection for 2 months [Re: Dr.Tooty]
#15998490 - 03/26/12 12:09 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yeah, I'll be fine. Just a minor inconvenience. I'm surprised I haven't been pulled over yet for the inspection sticker. At the gas station I go to, I always fuel up, then park next to the store to get cigarettes, most of the time right next to a Crown Vic or Charger. Hell, I've even had conversations with cops right in front of my truck with cops and no mention at all of the expired inspection.
I'm going to go out in a bit and check the front brake pads. I noticed after driving home from my IOP class the last 2 weeks that I would get a squealing sound when braking. Want to make sure they're in spec.
Just replaced the rear drums, pads, brake cylinders and springs, so those are good. I might as well just go ahead and replace the front pads today since it's nice outside.
The only thing that concerns me is that one of the ABS sensors is bad and it shows the ABS warning light on the dash. But it is my brothers friends shop, where he interned at for over 2 years and is friends with all the guys working there, so that probably won't be an issue. Unless some new guy checks it out and fails it. I've replaced 2 of the abs sensors already, so it's gotta be one of the front 2, or a broken wire. But that requires taking the whole hub assembly off the spindle, which I am not about to do right now. Fortunately I replaced the front axle lockers with Warn manual lockers. The stock automatic lockers had some weird ass spindle nut that was SO FUCKING HARD to get off. None of the spindle nut sockets I've ever tried would fit, so I would always have to take a screwdriver and hammer and knock the nuts loose which is a major pain in the ass.
At least with the Warn lockers I have a socket that fits those spindle nuts. Take an impact gun and just zip them off and back on.
-------------------- Same thing happened to me when I played Neil Armstrong in Moonshot. They found me in an alley in Burbank trying to re-enter the earth's atmosphere in an old refrigerator box.
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Re: Shit, just realized I've been driving with a expired inspection for 2 months [Re: WakeboardrB]
#15998541 - 03/26/12 12:18 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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WTF do you need an inspection for? To drive it? I've never heard of this before.
...just looked it up. What a pain.
I'm still trying to get the license branch to send me my new plate sticker from last year. No one has pulled me over yet lol.
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Re: Shit, just realized I've been driving with a expired inspection for 2 months [Re: Kada]
#15998562 - 03/26/12 12:23 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
WakeboardrB said: Yeah, I'll be fine. Just a minor inconvenience. I'm surprised I haven't been pulled over yet for the inspection sticker. At the gas station I go to, I always fuel up, then park next to the store to get cigarettes, most of the time right next to a Crown Vic or Charger. Hell, I've even had conversations with cops right in front of my truck with cops and no mention at all of the expired inspection.
That's awesome...I talk to police all the time at my job, and find it hilarious how much we get along.
impact...lucky, I just replaced my lower ball joints on my crown vic and that would have helped soooo much.Quote:
Kada said: WTF do you need an inspection for? To drive it? I've never heard of this before.
You're lucky and live in one of the states that doesn't require periodic safety/emissions/vin inspection.
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Re: Shit, just realized I've been driving with a expired inspection for 2 months [Re: Dr.Tooty]
#15998575 - 03/26/12 12:25 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'm moving to Portland, Oregon very soon possibly. Turns out I would need to get one there...
I'm selling my car if I move there. Who needs a car when yo have decent public transportation? Shit cost to much and is a pain in the ass.
I live in Indiana. If it can move down the street with smoke billowing out of it it's all good. lol
-------------------- ~The Cultivators Motherload~ "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do." -Robert A. Heinlein "There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness."-Dalai Lama Live long and prosper.
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WakeboardrB
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Re: Shit, just realized I've been driving with a expired inspection for 2 months [Re: Kada]
#15998608 - 03/26/12 12:31 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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Kada said: WTF do you need an inspection for? To drive it? I've never heard of this before.
...just looked it up. What a pain.
I'm still trying to get the license branch to send me my new plate sticker from last year. No one has pulled me over yet lol.
Where the fuck in the US do you live where you don't need to have a yearly vehicle inspection?
At least I don't live in a state where they do smog tests. I'd fail that shit before I even started the truck up.
-------------------- Same thing happened to me when I played Neil Armstrong in Moonshot. They found me in an alley in Burbank trying to re-enter the earth's atmosphere in an old refrigerator box.
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WakeboardrB
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Re: Shit, just realized I've been driving with a expired inspection for 2 months [Re: Kada]
#15998613 - 03/26/12 12:32 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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Kada said: I'm moving to Portland, Oregon very soon possibly. Turns out I would need to get one there...
I'm selling my car if I move there. Who needs a car when yo have decent public transportation? Shit cost to much and is a pain in the ass.
I live in Indiana. If it can move down the street with smoke billowing out of it it's all good. lol
I live in an area where it would take me an hour to walk to the closest store. A vehicle is absolutely necessary.
Plus I have to drive 35 minutes to my IOP classes, which is ordered through asap. So it's pretty much court ordered.
I never knew getting a DUI would require so much fucking driving.
-------------------- Same thing happened to me when I played Neil Armstrong in Moonshot. They found me in an alley in Burbank trying to re-enter the earth's atmosphere in an old refrigerator box.
Edited by WakeboardrB (03/26/12 12:35 PM)
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WakeboardrB
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Re: Shit, just realized I've been driving with a expired inspection for 2 months [Re: WakeboardrB]
#15998876 - 03/26/12 01:40 PM (11 years, 11 months ago) |
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Fawk, I parked really far from the garage and out of the range of my air compressor. And I had a bunch of home made sushi that had rice wine vinegar in it. I'm afraid to blow into the interlock now...
I do have a 50 ft air line, but shit... the brakes should be fine. Hopefully if I drop my brothers name, they'll just slap an inspection sticker on it without even looking over the truck.
-------------------- Same thing happened to me when I played Neil Armstrong in Moonshot. They found me in an alley in Burbank trying to re-enter the earth's atmosphere in an old refrigerator box.
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