Russell wrote:I most likely will not get a verbal warning if I am pulled over for my inspection. It has been out since october of last year. Prior to that I hadn't had my car inspected for a year and a half!
I just get busy and everytime I decide to do it, something else comes up and I forget
However, I have a good story for the police officer if I do get pulled over and they mention it. And no, I am NOT making this up, this is really what has happened to me:
"Well officer, you are not going to believe this story but I am going to tell it to you anyway. Before my inspection sticker expired I went to go have my cars windshield replaced as it had a giant crack right in front of my face in it. I do not believe it would have passed inspection with that crack, hence why I went to get it replaced. It took 3 weeks to have the windshield shipped because of my car being an older model. However, I had it replaced, and was going to get my inspection done the next day, but while in the process of driving to school that day a giant rock was thrown from the highway and caused this brand new $200 windshield to get ANOTHER crack in the SAME SPOT.
So, being extremely peeved and driving back to the glass place they were nice and replaced my windshield for me for free since it had a warranty on it. This windshield only took a week to have shipped in. Once it came in and the mechanic was in the middle of replacing it, he ended up breaking it. So now at this point I have literally used up every single windshield that will fit in my car in the continental United States. No, I am not joking. They have to MAKE the windshield for my car. It took a month and a half. This is the brand spanking new windshield on my car, not cracked.
After that I ended up running into a curb at about 45 miles an hour and almost tearing my right front tire off of my car, so that was another $900 in parts and labor to have the tire replaced along with all of the underlying damage to the arm and whatnot. Had to have all of that fixed because, well, the car won't pass inspection if one of the wheels doesn't turn.
Then, one of the buttons for my horn started acting funny and causing the horn to blare at random intervals without me even needing to touch it. I have two buttons for the horn on both sides of the steering wheel, so I decided I didn't need the right button and cut the wire to it. Turns out you have to have that wire for both buttons to work so now I have to try to dig into my steering wheel to fix the cut wire because you won't pass inspection with a broken horn.
So, officer, the moral of the story is, well, combined with that, school, and work, I just haven't had time."
I think I used to own that car when I was a kid.
