Lindell inspection shop

Lindell inspection shop
Release date	8 August 2016
Opening hours	08:00 - 16:00 Monday - Friday
Location	Peräjärvi
Inhabitants	Lindell
Toilet?	No
Features	Used to inspect Satsuma
Coordinates	X: -1533 Z:  1251

For interpreting the results, see inspection receipt.

Lindell inspection shop (: Katsastus Lindell Oy) is the car inspection office owned by Lindell. The Satsuma can be inspected here by Lindell for 325 mk. The inspection shop is open from 08:00 to 16:00 during the weekdays (Mon-Fri). The building cannot be entered during closing hours.

Note on the doors, informing the player about the hours of working.

The Satsuma should be inspected before being taken on the highway, but as long as police checkpoints are avoided, an inspection is only needed for competing in the Rally Sprint Race. The car needs to be re-inspected every four weeks after the initial inspection. When an inspection is due soon, Lindell will send the player a flyer by mail. The inspection shop is also the only location where the player can obtain a tax sticker for the car.

Car inspection

Getting the car inspected

The inspection office is located just past Teimo's shop, take the next left after Pub Nappo and the large warehouse should be visible on the right.

Park the car on the car lift just through the garage door. Be careful to position the car properly, as it will be lifted in whatever state it was left on the racks.

Satsuma on the inspection jack.

Walk around to the office where the inspector is situated, pay the man 325 mk and he'll do the job. He'll hit the car in all the right places to listen for any issues; the magical tool will reveal any problem, from unbolted seats to a poorly-tuned carburetor. His actions are a parody of real Finnish inspectors eagerly employing pointy tools to check for rust damage.

How to pass

To pass the inspection, the car must be fully functional. Brakes (handbrake and service brake) must work and must not leak. No fluids can be leaking. Suspension must be installed, bolted, and the long coil springs must not be used. Only some aftermarket parts pass; see list below for details. All body parts must be present, including the windshield. The warning triangle must also be present somewhere inside the car; it can be acquired from the tractor by pressing RMB to remove it. Make sure to check the front lights, they can burn out and cause the inspection to fail.

The Satsuma must have relatively new tires but not the slick or rally tires installed, they are not road legal. As long as the tire condition is over 60%, they are guaranteed to pass inspection (as long as they are not a banned tire type). The actual percentage needed to pass is randomly generated for each save (between 45% and 65%). Tire wear can be checked with the ruler. The choice of wheel does not matter. It should also be noted that the Satsuma will pass the inspection regardless of whether the roll cage is installed or not.

Permitted and forbidden parts

The below sections list what parts can, cannot, or must be installed to the car to pass the inspection; they are separated into three categories: stock parts, upgrade parts, and other/miscellaneous parts.

Stock parts

The stock parts include car parts that originally came with the Satsuma, all of these parts can be found in the garage at home.

The following stock car parts are not required to be installed for the inspection:

• Back panel
• Rear seat
• Passenger seat
• Clock gauge
• Mudflaps
• Hubcaps
• Radio
• Grille
• Inspection cover
• Airfilter

The following car parts are required to be installed for the inspection:

• Full stock exhaust system
• All body parts (doors, fenders, etc.)
• All suspension parts
• All transmission parts
• Brake master cylinder and appropriate lines
• Warning triangle
• Bootlid
• Handbrake
• Headlights
• Rear lights
• Fuel tank
• Wheels
• Windshield
• Driver's seat
• Steering wheel (GT, stock, or sport.)
• Dashboard meters

Upgrade parts

The upgrade parts include car parts that can only be acquired by buying them from the parts catalog or finding them around Alivieska.

The following car parts are permitted to be installed for the inspection:

• Amplifier
• Antennas
• Bucket seats
• CD player
• Dash covers
• Exhaust dual tip
• Extra gauges
• Fender flare spoiler
• Fender flare
• Fiberglass hood
• Front spoiler
• Fuel mixture gauge
• Marker lights
• Racing flywheel
• Racing radiator
• Twin carburators
• Rally shock absorbers
• Rally coil springs
• Rally struts
• Racing harness
• Roll cage

The following car parts are forbidden for inspection:

• N2O kit
• Racing exhaust
• Racing muffler
• Rally tires
• Racing carburators
• Rally steering wheel
• Steel headers
• Slick tires

Other parts

The other/miscellaneous parts include car parts that can be found around Alivieska and are not stock parts for the Satsuma. Out of all of these parts, only the following are forbidden be installed for the inspection:

• Long coil springs
• Stock tires found at the farmhouse (as two of the four will always spawn at 1%).

Emissions

The car must pass a basic emissions test. The test checks to see that the car's air-fuel ratio is greater than 14.05 and that the pistons are greater than 10% condition. To pass emissions, check to see that the air-fuel ratio is not less than 14.05. To check, look at the exhaust color and see if it is clear or clear-white. Using the tuning option from Fleetari Repair Shop on the carburator or twin carburators should pass. Ensure that the choke is pushed in. The check sees what the car's current air-fuel ratio is, which may differ from what it is at operating temperature.

What to do with the results

For what the results mean, see inspection receipt.

After the inspection is complete, a boarding card will appear on the desk in front of the inspector. An English version of the card can be viewed by clicking the Union Jack in the top right. If the car passed, the inspector will hand over the register plates which can be applied to the car.

The column on the left shows a list of parts. If a part is crossed with an 'X' it means that the part is either missing, damaged or not applicable. The note on the right reads: "This car is just a huge pile of waste."

Failure (HYLÄTTY) will cause the player to gain stress, and the player will have to pay an additional 325 to inspect the car again, while being accepted (HYVÄKSYTTY) will cause the player to lose stress and not to have to reinspect for another 28 days.

The Rally Sprint Race can be taken part in with a fully inspected car. If the car does not pass inspection, Fleetari (the rally organizer & mechanic) won't accept the application. A passed inspection is also necessary to avoid being fined at a police checkpoint.

Tips

Here are a few tips on how to pass:

• Read the acceptable parts section carefully, and make sure the Satsuma does not have any forbidden parts installed.
• Make sure the car is fairly straight on the car lift, as it may fall off when the man hoists it up. It doesn't have to be exactly in the middle though.
• If an item is showing up as failed, even though it's most certainly fully attached (and not aftermarket), fully remove the item and re-apply it.

Note: The license plate text and visuals can be changed; see game modifications. Requires fairly basic knowledge of UAE and a .dds editor such as paint.net.

Subsequent inspections

Lindell's re-inspection advert.

In prior versions, the Satsuma's inspection certification is valid indefinitely after its first successful inspection; since the 29.05.2020 update, it is only valid for 28 days, necessitating regular revisits to Lindell's garage for certificate renewal. A pamphlet from Lindell's office will be delivered to the player's mail box 7 days before the certificate's expiration (or 21 days after the last passed inspection) as a reminder to the player that the Satsuma needs to be reinspected. Players that continue to drive the car past the expiry day will be fined at a police checkpoint for driving a car with an "expired registration".

The process of re-inspection is identical to first-time inspections, except there is no issuing of register plates as the player would have received them from their first successful inspection.

The re-inspection advert roughly translates to:

Your car: VBX-403 inspection time approaches...

Inspection Lindell Ltd offers knowledgeable inspection service now at the cost of: -,325 mk

Open Mon-Fri at 8-16

Windshield tax sticker

Since the 08.09.2025 update, passenger cars (specifically the Satsuma AMP, Hayosiko Pace, and Burnet Ferndale) require road tax stickers to be displayed on the corner of their windshields, or risk being ticketed at a police checkpoint. Each sticker can be obtained at the inspection shop for 500 mk and will be applied to the nearest passenger car you own once purchase. If the windshield of the Satsuma is shattered, the player will need to buy a new sticker for the replacement windshield, while the Hayosiko's sticker is restored alongside its windscreen upon saving and reloading the game, and the Ferndale's windshield is indestructible.

A prompt to buy a windshield tax sticker can be found on the office's counter, to the right of the inspector.

Trivia

No parking signs on the right side of the garage door at the inspection office.

• There are "no parking" signs on the walls of the inspection office & the repair shop.
  • These signs warn you from the garage doors, as they will be shut when the business closes at 4pm.
  • The latter sign reads "Automaattiovi, älä pysäköi oviaukkoon" which means "Automatic door, do not park in the doorway".
• The inspection office's garage is depicted to have three car lifts for added capacity, complete with two additional garage doors at the back of the garage for the two lifts to the rear. However, the player can only utilize the lift directly in front of the open garage door; the remaining two lifts and garage doors are static props.
• The inspection office features three traffic safety posters warning of specific risks for road users:
  • The first refers to the risk of traffic deaths on public roadways, mentioning an anecdotal incidence of a father dying on the pictured stretch of road. ("Tälläkin tiellä kuoli perheenisä. Jos en aja otan.").
  • The second poster warns of crossing moose and advice drivers to dodge them instead of colliding with them ("Hirvenliha tarjouksessa. Sinä et. Väistä!").
  • The last poster, quoting the "Finnish Civil Servants' Union" in 1981, warns of the hazards of failing to inspect a car, comparing an uninspected car to a coffin ("'Katsastamaton auto on kallis ruumisarkku.' - Soumen virkamiesliito, 1981"). The poster notably features a flipped Satsuma.

See also

• Inspection shop on the My Winter Car wiki.