# Firestone for Inspection, :Tdown:
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [April 2, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179 "2006-04-02T21:31:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@POOPRA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/POOPRA)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 10:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/21 "2006-04-03T10:30:24Z")
Yes you have to pay for re-inspection, and it matters what you fail for. You failed the safety portion so you will only pay 10 bucks to reinspect. I have failed before for having a licence plate light out at valvoline. The socket was rusted out so they could not just pop a bulb in. The other one worked but they still failed me.
I need to find a place for my pops for his 58 MGA. The car is absolutely spotless, and he cringes when greasy mechanics crawl into his car and poke around at it.
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### Author:  [@Viper966](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Viper966)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/22 "2006-04-03T10:31:49Z")
take the MG to nicks shop…im sure he will help u out
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### Author:  [@Zong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zong)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 11:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/23 "2006-04-03T11:16:02Z")
How do you guys with the turboback exhausts etc. manage to pass every year? (i.e. poopra)
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### Author:  [@ly555is](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ly555is)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 11:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/24 "2006-04-03T11:23:35Z")
> [@JDMR2](#):
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> dude, ive gotten so many rejections from valvoline for the dumbest shit…b/c they know they can’t do the work so they dont give a fuck if it passes or not…
i’ve heard that, too - but better than firestone!
honestly, just make an app’t to a shop you take your car to the most. even if there isn’t one, geez - we’re on a car forum, make a thread about where to get a good, legit inspection that won’t rip you off… then we’d have no more ‘fuckin’ goddam firestone sucks!!! OMG what a surprise 🙂
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### Author:  [@POOPRA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/POOPRA)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/25 "2006-04-03T11:29:47Z")
> [@azndc5er](#):
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> How do you guys with the turboback exhausts etc. manage to pass every year? (i.e. poopra)
My car is old, does not need a OBD II test. The exhaust portion of the inspection for my car is just a visual that it has a cat. I dont have a cat on though but never failed
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### Author:  [@Zong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zong)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 11:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/26 "2006-04-03T11:36:54Z")
Stupid ass OBD2
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### Author:  [@AKA-FERRARI](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AKA-FERRARI)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 11:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/27 "2006-04-03T11:45:47Z")
> [@POOPRA](#):
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> My car is old, does not need a OBD II test. The exhaust portion of the inspection for my car is just a visual that it has a cat. I dont have a cat on though but never failed
Thats only cuz steve hooks you up.
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### Author:  [@Rx3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Rx3)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 12:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/28 "2006-04-03T12:07:45Z")
> [@azndc5er](#):
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> How do you guys with the turboback exhausts etc. manage to pass every year? (i.e. poopra)
Just make sure all your emissions stuff is hooked up, and that the car isn’t running rich.
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### Author:  [@jeeves744](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jeeves744)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 12:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/29 "2006-04-03T12:15:50Z")
> [@azndc5er](#):
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> How do you guys with the turboback exhausts etc. manage to pass every year? (i.e. poopra)
tunning software, atleast for us domestics.
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### Author:  [@Zong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zong)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 12:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/30 "2006-04-03T12:20:02Z")
> [@Rx3](#):
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> Just make sure all your emissions stuff is hooked up, and that the car isn’t running rich.
But there’s no way i’d get away with not having a cat
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### Author:  [@Rx3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Rx3)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/31 "2006-04-03T12:38:56Z")
Then put your cat on. Or run a hi-flow cat. Honestly for the cost and HP, there is no excuse not to run a cat for an OBD-II car.
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### Author:  [@Zong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Zong)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/32 "2006-04-03T12:47:25Z")
Yeah I know, this is all for future reference. I was planning on a high flow cat.
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### Author:  [@97FormulaWS-6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/97FormulaWS-6)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/33 "2006-04-03T12:56:00Z")
_shrugs_, I’m glad I have the hookup for the Inspections… no need to bother with emissions, cats, or anything else; even for an OBDII car. As long as I pass a plug-in test, I have a blind inspector.
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### Author:  [@walter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/walter)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/34 "2006-04-03T12:58:50Z")
no gym from home?
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### Author:  [@Carbonfiberhooded](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Carbonfiberhooded)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 1:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/35 "2006-04-03T13:15:18Z")
I never go to Firestone or Goodyear unless I know somebody that works there. Just not worth the hassle. Because unless you know someone, those places will try to rip you off. Thank God Sean’s a nice guy!!
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### Author:  [@JDMR2](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JDMR2)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/36 "2006-04-03T15:53:39Z")
> [@POOPRA](#):
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> Yes you have to pay for re-inspection, and it matters what you fail for. You failed the safety portion so you will only pay 10 bucks to reinspect. I have failed before for having a licence plate light out at valvoline. The socket was rusted out so they could not just pop a bulb in. The other one worked but they still failed me.
they fucked you dude…new york law says only one has to work if two are present…
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### Author:  [@73ghia](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/73ghia)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/37 "2006-04-03T21:00:58Z")
I got tired of dealing w/ firestone after arguing w/ them for 30 min i decided… not worth my time… I will be seeing sean at his new and improved location… closer to my house 🙂
I’ll also bring the V-Daub to him to see if he can figure out the tricky tricky way to get into reverse…
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### Author:  [@91CRXSI](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/91CRXSI)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/38 "2006-04-03T21:11:12Z")
what kind of car do you have?
i work there but wasnt around liek at all today (out delivering shit)
if you do plan on going there again call me first n ill try to talk to jim or who ever you talked to with you
803-2687
Matt
btw: who did the inspection?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/firestone-for-inspection-tdown/10179/39 "2006-04-03T21:17:30Z")
When I first got my ESi (and was a no0b), I took it to Firestone for an oil change (one on rte 9 in Latham/for you Albany members). Never will do business with them again. They dumped 6 quarts of oil into that engine=blown seals for the spark plug cylinders. It took me almost 5 months of fighting with their corporate office before I was compensated for the repair.
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