hmm, these are pretty wild inspection stories especially that Japan one! lol. Heres one for ya though. I never have any problems with inspections in NY since our familys mechanic is a personal friend since like 20 yrs ago. My buddy goes there too but he was stuck on time for an inspection a few weeks back on his Jeep so he went to this place like 10 mins from us. His horn didnt work (which was the only reason it didnt pass) and then this stupid place rattled off all these tiny things they rack up on their paper...the kinda stuff they rip off non-car ppl or little old ladies.

So they charged him the 21 bucks for inspection JUST FOR "inspecting" it, didnt give him the sticker and told him to come back when the horn was fixed and then he'd get a sticker. OR if he wanted they couldve started a diagnostic for 120 bucks....what kinda BS is that!?! My buddy was fuming and when we went back to get the truck we literally walked in got the keys and left. And the nerve of the tool behind the desk was saying "oh yea youve done some nice work with your Jeep, do you do alot of that stuff yourself?"

Needless to say his gf's dad fixed the horn, he went to my mechanic, who doesnt even bother looking over the entire car for us cuz theyre all in perfect shape and just gave him the sticker!!