Tires and vehicle inspections

[Poopyface]

You're acting like the individual inspector is just arbitrarily deciding on what passes and doesn't and not basing it off state requirements. Did you not ask specifically why they don't pass? They don't give a shit if you put a 100 miles a day or a 100 miles a year on the truck. Your use or intentions are completely irrelevant.

Maybe he is? I didn't ask. Like I said it's getting newer-er tires anyways so pass/fail didn't really matter. It just set the timing for the swap sooner rather than later.

This is actually my first set of tires that ever worn down to this level. None of my vehicles ever failed inspection before till this truck did.

Wear bars were what I always thought was the measuring mark but does it follow a certain percentage of the tread? Does it pass if both sides are worn but center lugs are not?

 

[M92PV4U]

Maybe he is? I didn't ask. Like I said it's getting newer-er tires anyways so pass/fail didn't really matter. It just set the timing for the swap sooner rather than later.

This is actually my first set of tires that ever worn down to this level. Never had one fail, let alone pass/fail.

Wear bars were what I always thought was the measuring mark but does it follow a certain percentage of the tread? Does it pass if both sides are worn but center lugs are not?

Not that it matters but I've run tires due to front end or just smoking them off until chords were showing without problems but have had good looking aged and weather cracked tires unexpectedly blow out.

 

[DMG]

I failed a smog inspection over a gas cap. The guy tried to sell me a new one I chewed him out because it was a new cap and just like that my truck passed and didn't need his new cap anymore.

New caps are bad too. Especially parts store junk.

 

[SanDiegoCJ]

Took the truck to a small local shop for inspection. They were gonna pass it but were backed up for weeks. I decided to try a chain shop who could do it that week. They said my rear tires need replaced before getting the sticker.

i mentioned to both that I was ordering new tires for the Toyota and swapping the half worn tires to the truck within the next two months so there was no interest in purchasing tires. I also mentioned it was not a DD and only used to drive 4 miles to home depot.

Both rear tires still have tread above the wear bars, one having more than the other.

Would you have passed it? I am just curious how tires are determined to be passable or not.

What is this vehicle inspection you talk about ?

 

[M92PV4U]

New caps are bad too. Especially parts store junk.

Probably was a stant or however it's spelled but it doesn't matter because it passed after all he was just trying to sell me a cap.

 

[GM Guy]

Looks like the outer thread is at the wear bars, which is a fail. Round these parts it is thread depth across the width with a fail if any part is below minimum.

 

[Poopyface]

Tires I want are on backorder. Gonna be a while till I do the tire swap so I took the truck to A1 a couple miles from here. They actually measured the tread.

Truck failed again but not cuz of tires. Fixed the shit needed fixed and finally got it inspected. It only took a year

 

[Chevy_man]

I've blown up tires that looked like that doing 70+ on gravel.

I was trying to make that 1 last month until I could throw the studded winters on and worry about summers in the spring. Bit me in the ass when I discovered my spare was a p-rated under my 3500. New spare and new tires that got switched in a month.