I have been doing inspections for seven years and a shop owner, manager and tech, for thity.

I am called years ago by a company and told they are buried in sacramento, after signing on, a few months later they stop calling me.

I hear from rf’s there are a couple new inspectors, kids and over eager trouble makers declining approval before even calling it in.

In seven years I have never had any form of communication from any inspection company on how they prefer any improvements to procedures,
there is a vast difference in warranty company expectations and inspection company verbage.
Such as some want the statement “failed due to customer abuse” others want “undetermined cause of trans failure with sign of wheel spin” it is ok with me to be pointed or just stick to the mechanical facts, the real problem is which way do they want it, even a inspection company representing different warranty companies does not have uniform parameters for information summation.

Seriously the real problems begin at the repair facility, I still get “there it is, its broken the ring ring gear” then they get all out of sorts when you request the vehicle be put on the lift, even get touchy about photos of the ro, really the procedures of expectations for inspections need to be made clear by the warranty companies to the dealers when servicing a claim.

There are undeniable ways to assess damage the inconsistancy from my perspective is between warranty, inspection companies and the repair facility. Inspectors really are very basic, and should not be a uncontrolled variable. let alone put out of work because of testy adjusters and cheap inspection companies.

for two weeks a dealer could not get a transmission to line up, on a rear wheel drive ! They used every knowledgable brain they had, I had it straight in an hour, instead of sending a perfectly good trans back. That is ridiculous.
I went out on a no start no spark they want a module and igniter, one fried the other, after making people mad by asking to see voltages at certain places we found there was an open in a main sensor power circuit jumped it and everything worked it ran fine with no cel even.

Ya that is me, I am that inspector that is out of work, so obviously there is a misplaced focus on what the rest of this industry is doing.

I got black listed because the bearing was worn paper thin and numbers still readable, tangs were up, but did not actually spin, all the bearings ! So warranty company tells rf I said it wasnt spun and they declined the claim, so I lost a daily stop, and the warranty company did not want to use me anymore for over a year.