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quote:Originally posted by CREWZIN
Long time ago I worked at two service stations that performed state inspections. When someone came in, the first thing we did was replace the wiper blades (always high quality wiper blades  ), That was an easy $10-15 and of course the headlights needed adjusting about 95% of the time. Never thought about changing the radiator cap, but that probably didn't fall into the state inspection guidelines. [:P]
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The late Warren Weith once pointed out in his Car & Driver column that since shops could not make a profit on inspections, they would look for something that needed fixing. Saving and re-installing a burned out tail-light bulb would give the shop something to do. Otherwise they might have to keep looking until they found something Really Expensive and hard to verify.
Headlight adjustment and new wiper blades seems like a nice honest shop. As opposed to 'your crankshaft failed inspection, and has to be replaced'.