Due Now Express

See my other review for the goose chase the station on Bandara rd sent me on for a 2, year old car bc the guy said I had a bad gas cap. I didn’t realize this place was a rip off bc there was a line of cars there but when it became my turn the guy decided to find something wrong so I couldn’t pass. I got the new cap with receipt and while in line got the main office phone number and called and threatened to call the police if he still insisted there was an issue. So in keeping with my horrible day the place next door can renew your registration but there is an added$ 18 fee. Learn from my mistake and please do not go there or your nightmare will just begin if the guy decides to make you his target. Btw no one cares not the inspector nor their front office about who is getting ripped off.

The location on Bandera Road is horrible! The female employee was smoking and talking on the cell phone while inspecting the car. She insisted on driving the vehicles to test the brakes around the driveway, slamming them on and then driving through the grass to get into the building. I left and went to a more reputable automotive shop. You would think that it would be a simple task to inspect the car, but the employee seemed to be very displeased with her job.

When I saw the sign for Fruit Cups and Car Inspections, I thought true genius had been found in San Antonio. Well, maybe someone was particularly business savvy about this establishment, but unfortunately no one told the employees.
First up, I showed up bright and early at 10am. Signs say to pull up and wait for inspection. So I wait about five minutes, realizing it’s a small place and thinking someone may be on the phone. But eventually I get out and go inside.
There’s a lady inside, who had a clear view of me the entire time, chopping up fruit and ignoring me. I ask if they still do inspections, and without even looking up at me, she says, «He’ll be back later.» Hm. Okay. Well I guess I’ll just get my fruit later after the inspection. Odd but oh well.
So I come back at 2pm on a late lunch break.
Same thing happens, but this time she says, «He should be back by… three?» At this point I’m beginning to think their garage section shouldn’t even be open if they’re primarily a fruit cup place. Neither visit had any other customers, either, which I found odd.
Third and final visit.
I came by at four, thinking surely that’s enough time to manage to get to work for the day. And moments after I pull up, a young guy steps outside and approaches my vehicle. Fabulous, I think, we’re about to get this over with so I can have my fruity reward! Spoiler alert: I didn’t get my fruit at all.
Guy approaches my car, stares blankly at me. «Hey, I came by earlier…» I start, before being interrupted with, «I was in class.»
I pause. Um. Okay. Didn’t hear a sorry in there but okay, education’s important, too. «Okay… I need my car inspection done?»
He asks for my insurance, and I pull out my entire envelope from the lovely officies of Sylvia S. Romo– the original form request, my copy of insurance for her records, the sticker, and all the rest.
First he says my insurance is expired– Nope, it expires at the end of the week, and it was good enough for the CPA of San Antonio.
He still refuses. So I produce the form for my new insurance for the next 6 months, picking up at the end of the week through the same company, with the same policy number. He somehow says it isn’t valid.
I produce the receipt slip and the copy of the check I sent. He says he needs «The real thing».
I hand him the certified letter form dated earlier that week when I sent in my info and say that they haven’t sent «the real thing» yet. He retorts, «Yeah, well, you can print it out.»
Getting really frustrated, I ask if he needs to have a copy of it on file or what, and he says he just needs to visually confirm my coverage. I summarize all of the documents I’ve provided him wiht and ask how that isn’t sufficient, and he just replies, still not making eye contact or sounding like he gives a damn at all, «I need to visually confirm. It’s policy.»
TLDR version;
I made three trips here in one day trying to get my inspection done. Obviously the employee they had here clearly doesn’t want my business. And I have a personal policy not to give my money to assholes.
I will never be back. And I’m going to make darn sure no one else I know goes here, either. At least not for their inspection.

Some ideas are just bad. For example, would you purchase shrimp sold out of the back of a pickup truck just because the entrepreneur had a sign reading «Fresh Shrimp» written on a jagged torn off flap of a cardboard box? Maybe? What if the words «Fresh Shrimp» were misspelled? Still not convinced? What if you lived 4 hours away from any body of water in which you might even pull a shrimp from? Yeah. Me neither.
Then there are ideas that shouldn’t go together yet some how, amazingly, do. Three words; chicken and waffles. I know, right? But it works.
Fruit Cups & More /​Due Now Express falls in to the later category. In my lifetime I would have never roused from a fevered dream (which is the only way I see it could have happened) and shouted «Eureka! A place to get your car inspected and get a tasty fruit cup! I’ll make billions!» The fine people at this establishment however, did. While I don’t see them making billions, I certainly will be giving them my business in the future.
The fruit cups themselves come in 16 oz cups and they have a variety which does include some vegetables (cucumbers). Like any respectable fruit cup stand in south Texas they offer to heavy handedly shake on chile powder and fresh squeezed lime juice. The inside of the stand seats about a dozen people or so and you’re welcome to buy your fruit cup, sodas, shakes, and more while waiting for your vehicle inspection.
If you find yourself, or work in the area and need a new sticker, bring your car here and get yourself a healthy snack. If you don’t need a sticker and just want a healthy snack, they’ve got you covered with a drive through lane.
Well played state inspection and fruit cup guys. Well played.

This is a great drive thru for a healthy snack. We need more of these in SA, but I don’t know if people will support healthy drive thrus.
There’s an inside area that looks real nice from the outside, but I’ve only taken advantage of the drive thru.
Next inspection I’ll check out the interior.