Calgary Jeep Association

4x4 Related Groups => Tech Talk => Topic started by: Becker on March 28, 2006, 11:48:05 AM

Title: Vehicle Inspection
Post by: Becker on March 28, 2006, 11:48:05 AM

It's time to put the YJ back on the road again for another season of carnage, repairs, and all around general fun.

Does anyone know who can perform a vehicle inspection on my YJ as required by my insurance company?

Thanks in advance.

Title: Vehicle Inspection
Post by: Dragonmaster on March 28, 2006, 01:14:42 PM

Pretty much any shop can do it.  Canadian Tire will it for you in about a 1/2 hour for about $40 and they generally miss alot of stuff.

Title: Vehicle Inspection
Post by: Wif on March 29, 2006, 12:03:07 PM

If you're the RO and you've had this vehicle insured before why does your ins co require an inspection ? .. just curious because mine doesn't.

The only time I have to get an inspection is if I buy a vehicle over 10 years old (and it hasn't already got a valid inspection certificate). After that, I don't ever need to get it re-inspected as long as I continue to own it.

Title: Vehicle Inspection
Post by: Becker on March 29, 2006, 04:09:52 PM

I am switching insurance companies, the Jeep is a 93 and then insurance company wants an inspection done.   I'll save over 275.00 switching companies.

Title: Vehicle Inspection
Post by: FiEND on March 29, 2006, 04:52:00 PM

nice.  we switched from AMA to Canadian Direct and saved $600 a year for 2 vehicles.

http://www.canadiandirect.com/Renderer.jhtml.1.html

online quotes so can check em out.  dual vehicles have to do separate quotes though

Title: Vehicle Inspection
Post by: HIWYH8R on March 29, 2006, 09:47:48 PM

I am licenced and can do insurance inspections at home. The basic  critieria i(for me) is that the steering, brakes, including e-brake, lights, exhaust, and drive train should be reasonalbly safe and working. Oh ya, your horn has to work too :)

I generally look at a vehicle and if most things work (safety wise) then I'll pass it. A small amount of play in a ball joint or a tie rod is acceptable but a large amount of play would not pass, as well as cracked brake hoses.

Some of the things I see on insurance inspections forms is laughable. King pins???(we still in the 70's?) Upholstery?? Engine cleanliness??? What a joke.

Kel

Title: Vehicle Inspection
Post by: redbull on March 30, 2006, 12:14:08 AM

I moved to Alberta from Sask in 1998 and had to get an inspection done to my perfect condition '89 Honda Prelude. The shop failed it for upper and lower ball joints, which I'll admit it may have needed, I didn't know much then. BUT then they gave me a loaner with rusted out holes in the fenders, a cracked windshield and only one working headlight. What a joke!

Anyway, I suggest taking HIWYH8R up on an inspection, not because I know him, but because he'll know where Jeeps are supposed to leak.

Title: Vehicle Inspection
Post by: Wif on March 30, 2006, 08:07:25 AM

I've never understood the out of Province inspection requirement.
Is Alberta trying to say Albertan vehicles are safer than all the others .. I've seen cars here on the road in worse condition than stuff I've pulled bits off down at Bucks ...  :lol:
But compare that with the UK where all vehicles over 3 years old have to go thru a very stringent annual test .. where you could technically fail on having no washer fluid in the bottle, and I'll take the Alberta way and smile .. :)

Title: Insurance
Post by: Becker on March 30, 2006, 09:55:18 AM

I just checked out Canadian Direct, considerably cheaper.  From last years insurance of just under 800 to 487 with Canadian.

Looks like my insurance hunt is over.

Thanks for the referring me to them.

Sean