First, the vehicle being inspected must be all one uniform color, meaning all body panels must be painted and match in color.
Second, the vehicle must be fully restored to its original operating condition as designed by the manufacturer and meet the original manufacturer’s specifications and appearance.
You guys in PA need to find out who put this into law and get them TF out of government because they’re obviously in the pockets of someone in the auto industry. There’s no reasonable justification for these, and they should be challenged in court.
while you very well could be correct, there is probably another angle where the intent is to prevent someone from slapping on a bunch of salvaged panels to hide underlying structural flaws in order to keep an unsafe vehicle off the streets. since we are given very few good alternatives to cars in much of the state, I’d rather know I can trust the machine driving next to me even if I can’t trust the operator.
Is that not the point of state inspections? That first rule is not going to prove ANYTHING about the safety of the vehicle, and the second one is just over-the-top in requiring it to effectively be like new. As a percentage of causes behind accidents, I would be surprised if not being up to design specs were a frequent enough cause to justify this - particularly in comparison to other more common causes like poor driving. Never mind that the timing of the questionable need for this economic hit is absurdly bad.