I have many stressful car inspection experiences and memories from New Jersey. You had to plan ahead of time and always try to figure out when it would be less people there. Sometimes you had to take a few hours off from work, because once you got there you usually where stuck in a long line of cars for an hour or more. You would sit there and wait, breathing the fumes of all the exhaust. One time it was about 100F outside and I almost passed out. You wondered if you should let your car run, or if you should keep on turning it off and on and off and on . . . . if it would effect the exhaust reading of your car once you get up to the building. If you didn't pass you would get a nice red sticker on the windshield so the whole world could see that you failed. You had two weeks to fix it, or you couldn't ride your car even if it was almost new.
I drove my old brown Volvo with a red sticker for over a year. The police warned me once. One day my car finally collapsed on the road never to resurrect again.
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