Q: Will I fail VA State Inspection for broken tachometer? Speedometer works fine.

asked by on November 30, 2017

The tachometer sometimes works but most of the time it doesn't. Everything else runs just fine. My truck is up for inspection and I was wondering if anyone had some knowledge of this gray area.

My car has 171000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

A tachometer is not equipped in all cars and should not be a failure item.

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