Congrats on the pass.
I'm also curious what the inspections involve.
We used to have mandatory annual safety inspections here until sometime in the early 1990s. Not sure why they quit. It wasn't much: horn, lights, and tailpipe litmus test if I recall.
I also recall an episode of 1980s PBS show Last Chance Garage where they showed Japan's intensely involved automobile inspections where cars would be sent down a tunnel and inspected at hundreds of points by a team of inspectors. As a small island nation, it was explained, they didn't want any smoky rolling wrecks on the roads.