"Brand new" vehicles come with stickers.

A 17 year old kid died in Hinesburg from a cracked flex pipe under a Honda civic like 6-7 years ago for one, and for two, if the rot you can see is bad enough to fail you, how are the structural components that hold major components like the front and rear sub frame and safety components like the bumper rebar, and frame rails?

I did that too. The fine was cheaper than getting inspected.

I hear ya

Few and far between. I didn't say the regulation made sense given the rural nature, but thats the end goal of it

It’s a ducking money grabbing racket. I’ve been here over 25 years. Been through the inspection process many times. Bought a brand new truck in 2019. It needs about “$800” to make it roadworthy? Fuckk you! I grew up out west, the only inspection was emissions.

Holy crap dude. It's a tiny little pinhole in a flex pipe, not a direct route to my air vents. There is literally nothing wrong with the car mechanically. It's only a shitbox cosmetically.

Sounds like a car that won't pass at all under the new standards.

EDIT: Cars with that much rust showing have places you'd never think to look, but under the 2022 new standard the inspection shop has to photograph and upload to the DMV...

This stems from major local lawsuits regarding cars that have been inspected where someone died and people that inspected the cars in question get railroaded with giant fines and jail time. Mechanics do not want to fail your piece of shit that's already trying to kill you with carbon monoxide from a manifold leak. To be totally honest if I followed the law to the letter, no car over two years old would actually pass, and some new cars also would not pass. That being said a leaking exhaust manifold is super dangerous and you could all of a sudden lose consciousness in a moving vehicle as CO builds up in your bloodstream over time, so maybe 3-4 longer drives around an hour in a month could be all that takes to end your life. You might have gotten lucky up to now driving jalopies but when you let people drive cars that are unsafe for everyone no matter where you are, you can potentially be the one in a car that kills a bus full of kids.

But there is only 600,000 people i the whole state.. where exactly are these pedestrian obstacle courses? Lol

Vermont - Where your car has to be road worthy, but the roads don’t have to be car worthy.

I wouldnt gamble on something that janky.

Could it be that tin tape with some paint over it?

All belongings gone, key in hand, cash paid. (Had the locksmith waiting to rekey the locks immediately)

Though groomed for skiing the Stowe rec path gets a lot of foot traffic so may or may not be good skiing.

Do it

I'm a millennial and was briefly a VT state employee. It never occurred to me to download any apps to my work phone that were not tied in with my work. Which basically meant to apps. That's not the intended purpose. I never even used my work laptop to log into social media accounts because it's a state device. Truly baffling to me that any state employee could go through all the required training and then download apps onto state devices for personal purposes.

I passed once with duct tape and spray paint. Ahh, the good old days.

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16 year old me would be very offended right now lmao

LOL Good luck.

Have your landlord issue an eviction notice with both your names on it. Then they will leave and you will stay

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Just fix it with bondo before you fail. Sand it smooth and hit it with some paint and you shouldnt have an issue passing

Really? That sucks. I’ve always used fiberglass and had good luck. Didn’t realize bondo was not acceptable anymore.