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it's a pretty dreadful moment when you look at your car and you see your inspection sticker is up this month and you didn't quite realize it so we're turning to Bob from Westar your car don't care to find out everything you need to know about New York state inspection and the things that they're gonna take a look at so to begin with when you take your car in for the New York state inspection what are they looking for you know first of all if you have a newer car 2013 2012 pretty much all we're looking for is the safety related items the brakes the lights that kind of thing when you have an older car 2011 a 10 or even older if it has a computer system on the car now becomes the emission system and that check engine light that comes on on your dashboard is part of the inspection so some of them are little fixes that won't cost you so much and some of them are the bigger items that might might have needed to plan for so what we're talking about the bigger items on a car that inspection is looking for what are they well some of the bigger items like we talked about with the safety thing you need a set of tires maybe the brakes aren't working right ball joints those type of thing those can be expensive to repair and that kind of thing but so can sometimes they check engine light and sometimes with the check engine light it can actually be something as simple as a loose gas cap so it's important to make sure that you don't leave the car running when you're putting gas in it that you tighten up the gas cap do you hear that click and to make sure it tightens up really well because that will also put the light on - that could be a cheaper fix to some of the other things so when we're talking about a check engine light it's almost guaranteed that you're not gonna pass inspection as long as that check engine light is on the check engine light on that means that there's actually an emissions problem with the vehicle that there's something going wrong it's polluting too much and that of course is part of the state inspection the part of the emission standards that we have here in the state so that would absolutely need to be repaired anytime that light will come on it means you're polluting too much somehow or another so how does the place like what's in your auto care go about checking all these things what we then do is we see the check engine light on we have scanners and information systems they'll be able to extract the codes out of the computer to let us know what system is failing and then what direction we need to go from there to get you a repair now I can imagine for a lot of people when that check engine light comes on they're kind of surprised by it and when their inspection comes up they're not prepared for what they might need to pick so how can people be a little pre-emptive and start to understand what's wrong with their car before it goes wrong the best thing you can do really when you get used to pick a shop hopefully it's one of the Western quarter care shops go to them all the time and they'll be able to keep up on the stuff because most of the time it's just regular routine maintenance and things like that that are just let go and then something happens to the car turns the check engine light on and all of a sudden a big surprise and it's all this money where if you could just kind of get ahead of that by doing the maintenance like I told you a lot of times it makes those repairs a lot less expensive and then one that sticker says September of 2013 that's one of how much wiggle room do you have you have to midnight of the last day of the last of that month all right thank you Bob for clarifying fuel garwal questions I know people have out there thank you
Thanks for your comment Trinidad Darmiento, have a nice day.
- Roma Nardozzi, Staff Member
so today we're going to do a new york state inspection just to tell you what's involved in in that process it's kind of lengthy but uh when you do it a bunch of times we go through it pretty quickly probably not absolutely 100 correct that gives you an idea of what what's involved so um the first thing we do when we bring in the vehicle we drive the vehicle first to make sure that the vehicle there's no excess of clunking when we press on the brakes that uh the vehicle doesn't veer hard left or right and actually stops we also check brake travel to make sure it doesn't sink to the floor uh once we get the vehicle in we will check the rear lights for uh brake uh turn and four ways we also check to make sure both if if the vehicle has two license plate lights they both have to be operating and also the third brake light all the bulbs have the light um and then we go to the front also marker lights if there are marker lights we uh we check those as well although marker lights um are not part of the inspection but we tell the customer headlights high beams we check left turn right turn and four ways as well also for the customer we'll check uh the the fog lights if it if indeed it has fog lights um the next step would be to check the horn which we did in the crete in the previous shot to make sure that it is audible we will also check all the vehicles on the ground we are going to check the wipers to make sure they're not ripped or torn each wiper that is part of the inspection and um it's available believe it or not okay so probably one of the last things we have to check before we put this up in the air is all the safety belts they have to work properly so uh we want to be able to apply it and release it any deviation from that is failure and uh there should be as many belts as there are passengers allowed in this vehicle so in this vehicle it's a five passenger vehicle so we would check both fronts and also on this vehicle there's three rears so um we would check each belt apply and release with no issues um so the next step is uh something that's relatively new to the new york state inspection is the um the tint we have to measure the tint on on windows so we invested in a tent meter if anyone's never seen this before the police carry these so they if you do get pulled over they can check on site to see how much light is coming into the vehicle so what we do to check this is we will turn the machine on and it calibrates itself so this is very easy this thing has a magnet on it so we go one uh we put the meter on the back and on the front and i'm gonna guess this is about 77 78 most automotive glass what um what we've measured with no tint on it straight from the factories about 77 to 78 so if you put any tint on the vehicle chances are it's going to fail um the law states that you are allowed uh this can be as low as 69 it's really 70 but they allow 1 error for the uh um for the machine itself that should be 77 to 78 so this vehicle passes now this is where it gets tricky on a passenger car and the way you can tell if it's a passenger car is on every vehicle the uh vehicle is classified in the type of vehicle it is as you can see right here passenger car so the tent law in new york is a vehicle labeled passenger car all these windows would have to meet that criteria i just told you 70 or higher on a vehicle that is uh classified as a multi-purpose vehicle mpv um or a truck um the front windows have to comply the rear windows this window this window or if it's like a just a uh an suv the rear window can be considerably darker it's not there's no law there's no regulation on that and for all vehicles the back window there's no regulation as well as long as you have a driver and passenger outside mirror i know it's kind of confusing but that's what it is so on the on the subject of of mirrors um we have uh all our mirrors have to be there can't be any cracks or damage to the mirror it has to be positively um attached to the vehicles which which you can see this is i have seen customers come in with drywall screws holding this in as long as it's secure it passes and the glass is not damaged or distorted you gotta be able to look through the glass the whole idea behind this is not to empty your wallet it's to make sure the vehicle is safe which that's that's their intent the next part of the inspection will check the glass on each piece of glass in every car there's a safety rating and if you can take a look right there there's an as1 automotive safety glass with a one reading you check every piece of glass i'll show you that one over here also over here as well so next we're going to check the windshield for any cracks or um stars what they call a star crack um if this applies for the windshield only um if there is any crack that is more than 11 inches long um is is is failure or any part of that crap goes into the um the windshield wiper sweep area is caused for failure as well as far as a star crack or like a stone chip anything um greater than three inches in diameter is caused for failure as well so while the vehicle is still on the ground uh i'm gonna do part of the brake inspection which is uh we're gonna test the parking brake to make sure it holds and releases so on this vehicle it does not have parking brake cables a lot of the newer vehicles have electronic parking brakes which is very cool um except when they when they fail then they become pretty expensive but part of the how we test them is i'm gonna put it in drive apply the brake vehicle shouldn't move i'm gonna release the brake vehicle should move which it will so that part of the test passes okay the next part of the inspection is going to be the serpentine belt as you can see let me get a pointer here what we want to do is get a look at that make sure there's no fraying cracks any tears in the belt any damage that can cause that belt to fail because if that fails um you probably won't have power steering um no charging on some vehicles uh no alternator depending on how many belts are running the vehicle most vehicles have one belt running everything now you can have tiny little cracks in these ribs which is not cause for failure but if it's if it's cracked all the way all the way through it's a good idea and it would probably fail inspection that's uh under the interpretation of the inspector which a lot of this is um but that's something definitely that could be it could be cause for failure so at this point what i like to do is shake down the front end make sure there's no loose parts no loose uh ball joints tie rods so we'll give it a shake down and the way we usually do that is let's shake side to side this is a new newer vehicle so i don't expect to see anything this is nice and tight there's no clunking um depending on the type of suspension that you have this is a mixed piercing strut so with it unloaded we can we can check um for ball joint um play which again this has nothing so um i'm happy with that i will check this side as well and we're good so next we'll check for the the presence of the catalytic converter this has one here and one here make sure that
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- Roma Nardozzi
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I've studied space writing at University of Maryland, Baltimore in Baltimore and I am an expert in electrical engineering. I usually feel recumbent. My previous job was gas plant operator I held this position for 17 years, I love talking about vr gaming and diabolo. Huge fan of Paul Ryan I practice disability sport and collect minerals.
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