smog inspection
03-14-2006, 12:20 PM
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smog inspection I just got my car smogged at this place in Merced, CA and it only tooke about 15 minutes. I was waiting for them to get the car on the machine but they never got to it. From what I could tell all they did was an inspection, a gas cap test, and stuck what are probably oxygen sensors in the tailpipes and hooked up their computer to my diagnostic port.
So when I went to pay I asked the guy about it and he said that since my car is registered in a certain area, it doesn't need to go on the dyno. I asked him if he though it would pass with long tubes or some other kind of headers and he said it would pass, it just needs the carb #. He looked at me as if he wanted to tell me that he could just look the other way next time. I think I'll go back there in a couple of years.
So when I went to pay I asked the guy about it and he said that since my car is registered in a certain area, it doesn't need to go on the dyno. I asked him if he though it would pass with long tubes or some other kind of headers and he said it would pass, it just needs the carb #. He looked at me as if he wanted to tell me that he could just look the other way next time. I think I'll go back there in a couple of years.
03-14-2006, 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by 98redM6
I just got my car smogged at this place in Merced, CA and it only tooke about 15 minutes. I was waiting for them to get the car on the machine but they never got to it. From what I could tell all they did was an inspection, a gas cap test, and stuck what are probably oxygen sensors in the tailpipes and hooked up their computer to my diagnostic port.
So when I went to pay I asked the guy about it and he said that since my car is registered in a certain area, it doesn't need to go on the dyno. I asked him if he though it would pass with long tubes or some other kind of headers and he said it would pass, it just needs the carb #. He looked at me as if he wanted to tell me that he could just look the other way next time. I think I'll go back there in a couple of years.
So when I went to pay I asked the guy about it and he said that since my car is registered in a certain area, it doesn't need to go on the dyno. I asked him if he though it would pass with long tubes or some other kind of headers and he said it would pass, it just needs the carb #. He looked at me as if he wanted to tell me that he could just look the other way next time. I think I'll go back there in a couple of years.
03-15-2006, 12:27 AM
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Originally Posted by RyneZ06
they have to check timing by law, so he is just going by the book.