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NC State Inspection
- Thread starter StanTheMan
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JasonR67
Member
I *think* he meant safety.. lights and horn.
ICE vehicles newer than X years (20? 25?) also need emissions.
ICE vehicles newer than X years (20? 25?) also need emissions.
JasonR67
Member
For new cars, I don't think so. When I got mine (Raleigh DC) the registration and everything went through.. Normally I you need inspection (like a year from registration) you can't renew your plates until the inspection is done..
Nothing, no inspection needed in NC when you buy a new car.
You’ll have to pay taxes couple of weeks after delivery, but you’ll get a letter at home with all the info.
jdcollins5
Member
You will still need an inspection each year to renew your registration. It is a limited inspection that, of course, does not include emission. Lights, turn signals, brake lights, etc. The full inspection is like $30 and the EV inspection is like $12.
Quote from Facebook: There is a snappy lube right off leesville and 540 that they [The Service Center] use for the inspections.
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I should have said safety inspection. My car is about one year old now. It needs to pass safety inspection to get the registration renewal.
JasonR67
Member
I just purchased my Model 3 4 weeks ago. I won't need an inspection until next year. There is a local shop in Cary (not a chain) that I've used in the past and has been very helpful, but I don't know if he's familiar with Tesla's or not (I haven't had an occasion to go back). I can find out though.
I took delivery last Friday from Raleigh. I have the paper tags on the car. How does getting a new plate work?
Will they send the plate in the mail or do i have to got to DMV to do that ?
Will they send the plate in the mail or do i have to got to DMV to do that ?
JasonR67
Member
Purchased from the same Delivery Center a month ago.
IIRC, My plate was FedEx'd from the Raleigh Delivery center ~10-12 days after purchase.
Knightshade
Well-Known Member
So funny story.
You do need an inspection in NC when you buy a new car.
By law, the dealer is supposed to do this before you take ownership of it, so you don't even noticed it happened.
Tesla didn't in my case, and I ended up a couple weeks later when they noticed having to drive over to the Snappy Lube previously mentioned off 540 to get it inspected so I could actually get "real" plates.... (the snappy lube guy even mentioned this was illegal and suggested I report it as I apparently wasn't the first emergency customer they were asked to handle for Tesla in Raleigh)
That was actually the 2nd illegal thing they did during delivery... (the other was the monroney sticker wasn't attached to the car- which is not only a federal crime it's a $1000 per car fine, and from what I could tell 100% of cars they were delivering that weekend came that way)
I didn't report either, as I don't want the folks holding my new car warranty going broke, but I do tell everyone buying one now to check if the inspection actually got done, because I ended up not getting my real plates until the day my temp tags were expiring due to them screwing this particular thing up and delaying all the paperwork.
JasonR67
Member
My "sticker" was just a 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper handed to me.. I am assuming it was freshly printed. it had never been stuck anywhere.
jdcollins5
Member
My sticker was given to me in a folder along with copies of the papers I signed. I can understand the need for this on a car in a typical dealer’s lot so you can compare before buying the car. For a car you have already purchased, what difference does this make?
Knightshade
Well-Known Member
Only difference is one is a violation of federal law carrying a $1000 per car fine and one isn't.
Nobody seems to enforce said law though since Tesla appears to continue doing it on virtually every car they deliver far as I can tell.
Presumably the reason the law originally said it was illegal for anybody but the new owner to remove it from the vehicle window though is to prevent a shady dealer from making you think you got something other than what you paid for.
