Well, I went today to get my car inspected and it's running beautiful....BUT - the tint came back to haunt me. I had a conversation with the guy before he got into my car and asked him what he thought about the tint and he said "Looks good to me....Sometimes I don't even look at it." I said "Good, because I don't want the thing to fail just because of the tint....that would suck...if it's gonna fail, let it fail for emissions reasons" and get this..HE AGREED!! So I said alright, heres my registration and 29 bucks.
About 20 minutes later he comes out with what I thought was a number 10 for the month on the sticker but as he drove up to me, he said "It failed for the tint...It's too dark." I just looked at him stumped. I tried bribing(sp?) him a little but that didn't work. He said "If you want, I can help rip it off!" I said, "umm.NO!!!" That's when the Portuguese came out and I pretty much tore into him like crazy! Calling him every 4 letter word I could think of....
Now that I've had time to cool off, I realized that what I did was unecessary. What got me upset was the whole conversation before the inspection and the end result. The car is running sooo clean...0006 reading of HC PPM at idle and 2500 RPM (limit 0220) and a 00.00 reading of CO % at idle and 2500 RPM (limit 01.20). So, the car is running sweet - just that the tint came and bit me in the a$$. I have 60 days to get re-inspected (for free at the same place) but I don't want to resort to ripping the tint off. I love that tint. If worse comes to worse, I'll rip it off, get it inspected, go get it re-tinted. But - I'll have to go through this every year!..(which would suck). (He also said the front windshield tint was too far down)
So - any suggestions? ANyone know anyone who does inspections and wouldn't mind the tint?! I wouldn't mind paying another 29 bucks to get it re-inspected.....
Sorry for the long story just I was upset and knew you guys/girls would understand!
Later!
