Where to get state inspection?

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Originally Posted by black roadster

Snow days are typically few and far between. A few flakes and the metroplex shuts down. I've driven a Miata year round here for years.

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Cool. I'll play it by ear. My biggest concern is the salt brine - my car is pretty low and I don't know how I will rinse the underside...

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How does TX get away with charging me sales tax on cars that I am simply registering here? No sale-type transaction happened on either of our cars, but we coughed up $90 on "sales tax" on each.

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Also, how do local governments get away with taxing used car sales? Seems like double / triple / multiple taxation based on how many times the car changes hands.

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Originally Posted by Run_Amok

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How does TX get away with charging me sales tax on cars that I am simply registering here? No sale-type transaction happened on either of our cars, but we coughed up $90 on "sales tax" on each.

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Also, how do local governments get away with taxing used car sales? Seems like double / triple / multiple taxation based on how many times the car changes hands.

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It sucks, but you need to look at it from another angle... You will put than money back in your pocket in just a few years thanks to the lower annual registration costs (compared to CA).

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Originally Posted by Titus

It sucks, but you need to look at it from another angle... You will put than money back in your pocket in just a few years thanks to the lower annual registration costs (compared to CA).

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True. Everything will even out in the proverbial wash. I guess I was caught off guard - this is atypical of my experience with TX government behavior thus far.

I may be to late to help
Keep in mind being out of state you first have to go to the registration office and get a blue form then go get the car inspected then go back and get the registration
With the new law that went into affect this year not sure how it works
Would think it will be the same process
I would stop by an inspection place and ask before setting and waiting to get it done and then find out they can't inspect it or when you pull in tell them it is out of state
Texas is not the only one that does this most states charge the tax when you go from one state to another it is really a use tax
If you moved from a state that had charged you a sales tax then the state would deducted that and you pay the difference or that is what I understand

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Originally Posted by doc

I may be to late to help
Keep in mind being out of state you first have to go to the registration office and get a blue form then go get the car inspected then go back and get the registration
With the new law that went into affect this year not sure how it works
Would think it will be the same process
I would stop by an inspection place and ask before setting and waiting to get it done and then find out they can't inspect it or when you pull in tell them it is out of state
Texas is not the only one that does this most states charge the tax when you go from one state to another it is really a use tax
If you moved from a state that had charged you a sales tax then the state would deducted that and you pay the difference or that is what I understand

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Doc, thank you for the input.

So, no blue slip needed. All the inspection station needed was the proof of insurance.

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Originally Posted by Run_Amok

California doesn't require a state inspection, so I am not sure what to do or expect.

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Wow, what changed? When I was there, (about ten years ago,) they inspected the heck out of my 1986 TBird turbocoupe to the point of verifying vacuum lines and ensuring anything aftermarket that could affect emissions had a CARB sticker. Is it not that way now?

As far as inspections, local to me, in south Fort Worth, one station can't get their equipment to communicate with the car, another can perform the inspection after I tell them "Use the other cable," and a third has no problem. Comparing the three, it seems in my area that the more "corporate" an operation is, the less likely it is that I will have an event-less inspection.

Hope this helps

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Originally Posted by Walsted

Wow, what changed? When I was there, (about ten years ago,) they inspected the heck out of my 1986 TBird turbocoupe to the point of verifying vacuum lines and ensuring anything aftermarket that could affect emissions had a CARB sticker. Is it not that way now?

As far as inspections, local to me, in south Fort Worth, one station can't get their equipment to communicate with the car, another can perform the inspection after I tell them "Use the other cable," and a third has no problem. Comparing the three, it seems in my area that the more "corporate" an operation is, the less likely it is that I will have an event-less inspection.

Hope this helps

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CA still does the smog inspection. They don't do a roadworthy-ness inspection.