Maine State Inspection in Windham, ME

Maine requires most registered vehicles to pass a safety inspection every year, and the sticker on your windshield shows the month it runs out. Inspections are done at official inspection stations licensed by the Maine State Police. M & Son is one of them, at 619 Roosevelt Trail on Route 302 in Windham.

Windham is in Cumberland County, and Cumberland County is the only county in Maine that adds an emissions test to the annual inspection. For most gasoline vehicles that means plugging into the on-board diagnostics port to confirm the engine and emissions systems are reporting correctly. A lit check engine light is one of the most common reasons a vehicle fails here, so if yours is on, it is worth having it diagnosed before inspection day.

The safety side follows the Maine State Police inspection standards. Inspectors look at the items that decide whether a car is safe on the road: brakes, tires, steering and suspension, lights and signals, the exhaust system, the windshield and wipers, the horn and mirrors, seat belts, and rust on the frame, body and brake lines. In Maine, rust is where a lot of older vehicles run into trouble, because road salt works on the underside all winter.

If your vehicle passes, it gets its new sticker. If something fails, we show you what failed and why, in plain words, and give you the price to fix it before anything is touched. Because we are a full repair shop, most failed items can be repaired right here in the same bays, by the same people who inspected the car. You decide whether we do the repair or someone else does.

The inspection fee is set by Maine law, not by the shop. Call us for the current fee before you come in.

Buying a used vehicle from us? Maine law requires a dealer to warrant in writing that a used car can pass state inspection, and that applies to every vehicle we sell.