Hi, Guest
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the way it works/worked was that a safety cert is (used to be?) valid for 30 days... so you go in on say december 31st, they'll write down december 2nd as the day the car was certified... then you have 1 day (or 2, or 3) or w/e depending on how well you know the mech to get it registered.
like that, if a week later the wheel falls off the mech can say "5 weeks ago it was on fine" not "it was just fine 3 days ago" when it clearly wasn't.
...edit: I've most commonly seen the price be 150 and go as low as 100 if you really know the person. still retarded that he'd fail you on the tail lights though - sounds like you went to a shitty garage or a corporate chain. Any mechanic worth his salt wouldn't bother with that - especially because its not the tint itself that makes them illegal its the lack of visibility CAUSED by the tint. IE: LED bulbs would probably have been fine.
the way it works/worked was that a safety cert is (used to be?) valid for 30 days... so you go in on say december 31st, they'll write down december 2nd as the day the car was certified... then you have 1 day (or 2, or 3) or w/e depending on how well you know the mech to get it registered.
like that, if a week later the wheel falls off the mech can say "5 weeks ago it was on fine" not "it was just fine 3 days ago" when it clearly wasn't.
...edit: I've most commonly seen the price be 150 and go as low as 100 if you really know the person. still retarded that he'd fail you on the tail lights though - sounds like you went to a shitty garage or a corporate chain. Any mechanic worth his salt wouldn't bother with that - especially because its not the tint itself that makes them illegal its the lack of visibility CAUSED by the tint. IE: LED bulbs would probably have been fine.
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2011 Volkswagen Jetta Daily Driver
2011 Volkswagen Jetta Daily Driver