Required equipment — Missouri Permit Test

Your vehicle must have at least two functioning white headlights.

Two, because one headlight reads to an oncoming driver as a motorcycle at an unknown distance.

Your vehicle must have at least two functioning white headlights.

Your vehicle must have at least two functioning red taillights and reflectors that other drivers can see from 500 feet.

Five hundred feet is enough distance for the driver behind to slow instead of brake.

Your vehicle must have at least two functioning red taillights and reflectors that other drivers can see from 500 feet.

If your vehicle was made after January 1, 1936, it must have safety glass in all windows.

Ordinary glass breaks into blades. Safety glass was the first equipment law of its kind.

If your vehicle was made after January 1, 1936, it must have safety glass in all windows.

If your passenger car was made after June 30, 1964, it must have two sets of seat belts in the front seat.

Two sets, for the two seats the law has always cared most about.

If your passenger car was made after June 30, 1964, it must have two sets of seat belts in the front seat.

If your vehicle was made after 1967 it must have an inside and an outside rearview mirror.

Two mirrors, because between them they cover most of what is behind you.

If your vehicle was made after 1967, it must have an inside and an outside rearview mirror.

If your vehicle was made after 1967 and does not have a diesel motor, it must have air pollution control devices as originally installed by the manufacturer.

As originally installed, which rules out removing them and calling the car modified.

If your vehicle was made after 1967 and does not have a diesel motor, it must have air pollution control devices.

You must not have bald or mismatched tires on your vehicle.

Mismatched tires behave differently from one another, which is a problem at the moment you most need them not to.

You must not have bald or mismatched tires on your vehicle.

Your vehicle must not have anything on the windshield that reduces your visibility, except labels and stickers required by law and informational signs on the upper portion normally tinted by manufacturers.

The exceptions are narrow, and they are all things that sit where you do not look.

Your vehicle must not have anything on the windshield that will reduce your visibility, except labels and stickers required by law or ordinance

Your vehicle must have an attached exhaust pipe, muffler, and tailpipe.

All three, because the gas has to be carried past the cabin and released quietly.

Your vehicle must have an attached exhaust pipe, muffler, and tailpipe.

Bumpers on passenger vehicles may not exceed 22 inches above the ground when measured at the highest point.

A raised bumper passes over another car's crash structure and goes into the cabin instead.

Bumpers on passenger vehicles may not exceed 22 inches above the ground when measured at the highest point.

Trucks without rear fenders that are registered for over 24,000 pounds must have mud flaps.

Without them the rear wheels throw stones straight at the windshield behind.

Trucks without rear fenders, registered for over 24,000 pounds, must have mud flaps.

Your vehicle's steering mechanism must not have too much play or binding.

Play means the wheel turns before the car does, and binding means it does not turn at all.

Your vehicle’s steering mechanism must not have too much play or binding.

How many functioning headlights must a Missouri vehicle have?

At least two. Two, because one headlight reads to an oncoming driver as a motorcycle at an unknown distance. Missouri Driver Guide, p.84: “Your vehicle must have at least two functioning white headlights.”