Jermizzle

my 03 S2000 went to casey honda this afternoon for state inspection and after an hour they came back and told me it failed due to the tinted windshield banner!?!? i couldnt believe it, of all the other mods on my car and only thing that gets rejected is my windshield banner, seems like the inspector tried to reject it on purpose. i thought it was kinda funny at the time. I didnt even know you could'nt have a tinted windshield banner on your car. well anyways i guess i just have to remove it and take it back.

HatefulMechanic

you can have a strip of tint with no lettering of any kind that is no more then 3" from the top of the windshield.

roadrcr82

that sucks man i almost failed inspection because of my a pillar guages. some bs about them upstructing my view of the road. kinda funny cause the imspection sticker and county sticker obstructs my view more then anything else up there

ef_what?

that sucks jeremy...from what i know, you could have one 3" from top of the windshield like fc735 said.

eclpsed

I knew a guy with a new truck, 30 day tags wont even on it yet. He ordered from the deal with the #3 Dale E. windshild banner from chevy. Took it to the shop his DAD owned and got failed due to the banner!!!! The truck came from the dealer in Va like that! The real shitty part is it was in the middle of the glass couldnt be jus taken off he had to get a new windshield to drive the truck in Va. Now thats messed up.

HatefulMechanic

there is nothing in the inspection handbook about pillar pods or view obstruction. the only thing even close to that is cowl hoods. no more then 2.25" tall for any vehicle made 1990 and earlier, and anything after 1991 is 1.125" tall.

that falls in the factory installed category, much like the Saleens do. it is legal, but most inspectors will reject for it like that. it takes some fighting, but it is legal.

91se-r

I was looking at the link posted in this thread: http://www.dragva.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95046 and there was a blurb about obstructions here:
It doesn't say anything about cowl hoods, only hood scoops.

In that same area "glass and glazing" there was a blurb:
It makes no mention of "factory installed" stickers. Where is the factory installed catagory? Thanks.

HatefulMechanic

the factory installed notice was in a bulletin that was sent out in 2003 if i recall.

and subsection 5 is a joke, that is one of the sections that was heavily reworked in the new manual.

91se-r

Do you have a link to the "new" book?

HatefulMechanic

no, cause its not published and distributed yet. it will be in paper form. i am not aware of it being online, the other day was the first time i have ever seen the code online before.