I just completed the fog light mod described on SVTLightnings.com. And as many of you know, after you do the electrical mod your fogs don't turn off when you turn on the high beams.

Has anyone had a problem passing state inspection because of this condition?
If this is going to be a problem. I am debating putting in a hidden toggle switch that could make or break the wire splice done in the mod.

Thanks!
Eric

 

If you're really worried about it, I'd say just remove the fog lights for the inspection. It can't be hard to do and they can't fail your truck because the fog lights don't work, if they aren't there.

 

I'm not worried about it but I've been screwed over so many times on VA State inspection junk it isn't funny. I personally beleive it is a conflict of interest for shops and garages to inspect your vehicle for ten dollars and then tell you your car will fail unless you pay them to do some overpriced and questionable repair. Basically the state taxes you 10 dollars and then you are at the mercy of some fool at the garage who is already p!ssed about having to do the inspection for 10 bucks. So he tries to make up for it by ripping you off on a questionable repair.
It seems like every time I go in they are whining about the brakes and when I go home and measure the pads they are well within tolerance. But now you have a big rejection sticker on your car and you can either go to someone else and pay another 10 bucks or go back and argue with the first guy.
I have a 1995 F-150 and it has always passed inspection. That is, except for this passed December when an inspection place said I needed my headlights aligned. The guy tried to say some junk like.. maybe they moved if the bulbs were replaced. or... maybe they bounced out of position. I told him I still had my orginal bulbs in and the lights have always been in that position from the factory. And!! I had had my truck inspected at the same place the previous two years and it had allways passed. Now he has got my passenger side headlight really ****ed out of the grille as opposed to the flush appearance it had before.

Sorry about the rant, but having to think about state inspection just gets under my nerves.

 

They used to have the same scam in Indiana when I grew up. Back then you just slipped the guy a twenty and your car passed with flying colors. Someone in Indy finally woke up and got rid of the whole BS in the 70s. I guess the state didn't feel they were getting their cut.

Now I'm living in Chicagoland, where they have "The Machine". Gawd, I've never seen so much graft and corruption in one place. "If we pass another law, maybe we can fix all of society's problems. At least we'll get rich in the process."



Vote Libertarian.

 

felel glad you didn't move to maryland. I just did and my dad had to sell his car becasue it couldn't pass inspection, spend 1,000 on an expy becasue it doulfnot pass and on my f150 they made us put in a new windsheild becasue it had a FIXED rock ding on the top. so far up my brother couldn't see it while he was driving down the road looknig at the moon.