“Dear PoPville,
I recently used to the DC DMV self-service inspection kiosk at 300 Van Buren St NW to test my car. There was no line at 11am on a weekday and it took less than 5 minutes to pass. I received my new sticker the following week. The process was amazingly easy. The process of removing my old sticker — which on my last inspection 3 years had been affixed by DMV inspection person — was impossible to scrape off and had been stuck so far down the window well that my scraper could not access the lower half of the sticker. During my struggle, my new sticker, the back of which had not even been peeled off, fell down a crack on my dashboard and I’ve spent weeks trying unsuccessfully to fish it out, confound it.
I finally gave up, went online to file for a replacement, called DMV, and was told that you *have* to visit an in-person inspection station to get a replacement sticker even though they could see that my vehicle passed with flying colors. This seems archaic in our digital-everything era and especially during a new, aggressive spike in Covid. Anyone among the PoPville collective know if there’s way around having to go to the main inspection center, especially when I used their (wonderful) self-serve kiosk in the first place? The DMV service rep said that, yes, I could go back and get my car re-inspected there, but I’d have to pay the full $35 rather than the $10 sticker replacement fee. SMH. Thanks for any help.