Since I just bought my new to me NSX, New Jersey requires a motor vehicle inspection within 14 days of registering the car.
It took 13 days to order and install a front license plate/bracket :frown: since this car never had one before (front plate is required in Jersey) so I took it for inspection on the 14th day.
I went on my lunch hour from work. I got there a little early to beat the lunch crowd.
There were three rows for inspection, two totally empty with no wait and in the other row was a H2 Hummer. I thought to myself, Great! no wait, I will be in and out in 10 minutes.....
For some reason, they told me to go line up behind the Hummer. 5 minutes later, 10+ cars show up for inspection (probably all on their lunch hour) They all breeze through inspection in Rows two and three.
Thirty minutes pass, and I'm still waiting behind the Hummer. For some reason they couldn't figure out how to test the emissions/climb into it, etc.
Why they didn't tell me to move to another line, I don't know. Finally they figure out how to climb into the H2 and inspect it.
At the inspection station, they don't let you wait with your car. You have to walk across the three inspection rows and walk down to the end of the building where the waiting area is located. Your inspection is done when your car comes down to the waiting area.
I can still see my car from the waiting area, I know its mine because it is the only car not moving.
They have to check the engine compartment. The lady opens up the front trunk, she looks, no engine in there. The lady looks shocked. She calls over two male inspection workers, they look and point to the rear of the car.
They now open the rear trunk, no engine in there either.
They stare at each other for 10 minutes and shrug their shoulders. 10 more people breeze through inspection, in rows 2 & 3. I'm now there over an hour.
I waive my arms frantically to try to get their attention. They reluctantly call me over. No problem, I show them where the engine is.
The people in the waiting area around me complain that their inspection is taking forever, almost 15 minutes. I remark that I've now been here for an hour and a half.
I think to myself work must think I quit and I'm never coming back.
Finally my car is inspected and I drive off. Immediately the warning light comes on that my engine hatch is not closed. Of course it isn't.
At least I won't have to go back to inspection until 2014.
It took 13 days to order and install a front license plate/bracket :frown: since this car never had one before (front plate is required in Jersey) so I took it for inspection on the 14th day.
I went on my lunch hour from work. I got there a little early to beat the lunch crowd.
There were three rows for inspection, two totally empty with no wait and in the other row was a H2 Hummer. I thought to myself, Great! no wait, I will be in and out in 10 minutes.....
For some reason, they told me to go line up behind the Hummer. 5 minutes later, 10+ cars show up for inspection (probably all on their lunch hour) They all breeze through inspection in Rows two and three.
Thirty minutes pass, and I'm still waiting behind the Hummer. For some reason they couldn't figure out how to test the emissions/climb into it, etc.
Why they didn't tell me to move to another line, I don't know. Finally they figure out how to climb into the H2 and inspect it.
At the inspection station, they don't let you wait with your car. You have to walk across the three inspection rows and walk down to the end of the building where the waiting area is located. Your inspection is done when your car comes down to the waiting area.
I can still see my car from the waiting area, I know its mine because it is the only car not moving.
They have to check the engine compartment. The lady opens up the front trunk, she looks, no engine in there. The lady looks shocked. She calls over two male inspection workers, they look and point to the rear of the car.
They now open the rear trunk, no engine in there either.
They stare at each other for 10 minutes and shrug their shoulders. 10 more people breeze through inspection, in rows 2 & 3. I'm now there over an hour. I waive my arms frantically to try to get their attention. They reluctantly call me over. No problem, I show them where the engine is.
The people in the waiting area around me complain that their inspection is taking forever, almost 15 minutes. I remark that I've now been here for an hour and a half.
I think to myself work must think I quit and I'm never coming back.
Finally my car is inspected and I drive off. Immediately the warning light comes on that my engine hatch is not closed. Of course it isn't.
At least I won't have to go back to inspection until 2014.
