Vehicle inspection is a concern for many car owners. According to the feedback of the media and some car owners, the annual inspection fee of automobiles in many parts of the country has been raised. Everyone has said that "this year, except for wages, everything seems to be rising", what is the reason for the price increase? Is it necessary to have an annual inspection of the car? In this article, we will explore this problem together.
Regarding the new car inspection policy, in 2021, the mainland motor vehicle annual inspection policy has changed greatly compared with the past, specifically: private cars are still exempt from car inspection within 6 years, but the follow-up inspection time is changed to "once every 2 years", that is to say, the 8th year, the 10th year (after 10 years, the original inspection frequency is still maintained). Simply put, the "7th year" and "9th year" do not need to go to the car inspection. In addition, the new regulations have also changed the identification of models: in the past, private cars with less than 6 seats could enjoy 6 years of exemption from inspection, and now the 6-year exemption range has been relaxed to private cars with less than 9 seats (except for vans, subject to driving licenses).
The main reason for the annual inspection price increase: the new policy has led to a sharp decline in the business volume of the vehicle inspection unit. The revision of the "new regulations" has improved the convenience of operation a lot, so it has ushered in unanimous praise. However, with the continuous improvement of the environmental protection requirements of mainland motor vehicles, in 2021, we have ushered in an increase in the annual inspection cost of automobiles (some provinces have begun to implement, and some areas have not started). In fact, in 2019, the mainland motor vehicle exemption fee has been adjusted once, mainly because of the introduction of a new standard for vehicle exhaust gas detection in 2019.
Therefore, some items have been added to the testing process, such as reading the car fault code diagnosis system (which is what we commonly call the "OBD" interface), etc., because the cost of the inspection items has increased. The reason for this year's price adjustment is mainly due to the fact that after the implementation of the "new annual inspection regulations", the private cars of the "7th year" and "9th year" are no longer inspected, and the more than 6-seat models that originally had to participate in the annual inspection every year are no longer inspecting the car, resulting in a significant reduction in the business reception of the car inspection enterprises. According to some car inspection companies, the minimum daily reception volume is only about half of the past. This has led to a significant reduction in the total operating income value, in order to maintain normal operations, so the relevant industry associations in various places have formulated new charging standards according to the specific situation, so there is a price increase.
The vehicle inspection agency is not limited to the vehicle management office. It has been implemented for many years of "market-oriented" operation. There may be a misunderstanding here: everyone thinks that car inspection is to go to the vehicle management office, and since it is a vehicle management office, it is an administrative agency, not a commercial profit organization. That being the case, regardless of the daily reception volume, there is no such thing as "profit or loss". So why raise prices?
As early as more than 20 years ago, the car inspection was indeed directly responsible for the vehicle management office, but since the beginning of the zero years, the mainland motor vehicle ownership explosion, so the previous car inspection agencies have been unable to undertake the sudden surge in business volume, resulting in the mainland began to enter the era of "motor vehicle inspection marketization, enterpriseization", and private enterprises entered the industry. So now when you go to the car inspection, you can see two kinds of inspection points of state-owned and private enterprises: for example, there is "XX City XX Motor Vehicle Monitoring Station" (which is state-run), and you can also see "XX City XX Car Inspection Co., Ltd." (this is a private enterprise).
The annual price increases in some regions have been implemented, and the remaining regions will follow suit. After the annual inspection of automobiles is fully corporatized, there is naturally a profit and loss. In fact, since 2018, the mainland has liberalized the pricing power of the service of automobile annual inspection and taken the market-oriented route. Enterprises can formulate charging standards according to their own profit and loss situation, submit them to the management department and the price department for approval and approval, and implement the corresponding charging standards, and clearly mark the prices in different categories.
At present, most parts of the mainland have completed the price increase of the cost of the car inspection service this year. I don't know if the riders have paid attention to the charging situation after the price increase, because the "New Regulations" affected the business impact of the car inspection enterprises is larger, so this year's increase is more fierce, according to the situation in the provinces that have completed the price increase, the increase is more than 150 yuan.
Is the annual inspection necessary? Most car owners feel that their cars will definitely cherish, take into account the safety of themselves and their families and friends, will often do car maintenance, will not wait until the annual inspection to pay attention to these safety hazards, so the annual inspection system for private cars is of little significance, the annual inspection is "take a form", "destroy the car", "convenient service measures are insufficient" Problem, think that the "bundled annual inspection" should be cancelled, while maintenance instead of annual inspection.
However, some experts have expressed their opposition to the cancellation of annual inspections, proposing that the most important significance of automobile inspection is to test the safety of automobiles in order to prevent various malfunctions of the car and lead to car accidents. At the same time, with the increase of vehicles, exhaust emissions will also increase, which will cause certain pollution to the air, which is why the annual inspection of automobiles must check the exhaust emissions of automobiles. After the cancellation of annual inspections, on the one hand, illegal modified cars may become more rampant; on the other hand, illegal cars driving on the road at will may aggravate the city's air pollution.