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| - I took my 2002 Chevrolet Corvette to NAPA Autopro Kensington to have an out-of-province inspection done.
A little background -- all Corvettes of this generation sold in North America had daytime running lights, even those that were sold in the U.S. I'd imported my car from the States, so just to be safe, I personally confirmed that it had DRLs. When my car had its federal RIV inspection done by another shop, they too verified that my car had DRLs and passed the inspection.
Despite all this, when I took my car to NAPA Autopro Kensington, they failed the provincial inspection claiming that the car didn't have DRLs. After I picked the car up from them, I double-checked just to make sure that the lights hadn't somehow stopped working in the few days between the two inspections, but nope, they were still working fine.
The most favorable interpretation of the situation is that the guy who did the inspection somehow failed to notice the DRLs... which isn't very favorable. Is the car on? Yes? Are the lights on? Yes? Presto, DRLs! How hard is that?
The less favorable interpretation of the situation is that the shop was trying to drum up some work. I don't know which of these was actually the case, but either way I'm never taking a car of mine back there again.
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