So stooped by my local repair/service shop to show off my new (used) 2010 JK. And while admiring my new purchase he asked if some of the lights I put on were stock. I told him "no" and he told me new PA rules will not pass any auto with aftermarket lighting. Including even running or fog lights unless they are wired with the high beams. This seems a bit out there. Come on really? So he told me when I come in for inspection I will need to remove them. And he also mentioned inspection stations are now required to check tinted windows as well. If it's not factory tinted, ya fail. Crazy!!!!
I live in PA, and I think such a new law is a great idea (if its true).
I was driving up Rt309, and from the other direction, is this great big ball of light coming toward me. I thought I was heading toward an alien encounter straight out of
Close Encounters.
Then the panic set in, as I remembered reading that due to their budget cut backs, aliens weren't using lube on their anal probes anymore. :mooning:
After this great ball of light passed me, and I gave a sigh of relief (not aliens), I looked in my rear view mirror to see that it wasn't really an alien space craft, but actually just a Wrangler with all his many off-road, and auxiliary, lights 'on'. I bet he thought he was one really cool dude showing off his lights like that.
Such proves why such a law is really required. Not to punish the good folk, but to fully stop a-holes like this. If this makes anyone here unhappy, then you need to thank guys like this for intentionally ruining it for everyone.
As to window tinting. That isn't new.
There was even an enforcement blitz a while back. If an officer thought your tinting was too dark, or on a front side window or, worse, the windshield, he would pull you over and measure the tint level. If illegal, it was more than simply a ticket. Since it was a safety issue, you were strictly prohibited from driving the vehicle at all until fixed. So, you either had to have it towed, or remove the tinting right then and there. The local paper ran a picture of some poor young guy scraping the tinting off his driver's door window, while stopped off on the side of the road, with an (overweight) officer standing in the background watching.
BTW, not mentioned, is that PA has bumper height laws. If you do a lift, make sure your bumpers aren't exceeding the max height allowed, or you'll fail your annual safety inspection for that.