I asked him what logic there was in a program that would force me to drive from one smog check station to another when a mechanic had already told me there was absolutely nothing wrong with the car. After waiting on the phone for what felt like an hour but was probably 15 minutes or so, I finally reached one of their mechanics who told me smog check stations are given one exemption for the type of problem I was having (because there really is nothing wrong with the car) and that I should just keep going from one smog check station to another until I find one that’s willing to pronounce my wife’s car as roadworthy. But there’s nothing wrong with the car and it should pass a smog check with no problem, according to the mechanic.įrustrated, I called the state Bureau of Automotive Repair (the “BAR”). So why couldn’t I pass a smog check for the State of California? At this point things get really complicated, but the apparent problem is that the car’s onboard computer is stuck in the middle of some cycle or another. I agreed, being that it’s a relatively low mileage car that’s regularly maintained and runs beautifully. “Sorry, but there’s nothing I can do for you,” the shop’s manager said. The shop’s owner then came over for a consultation, and guess what? They could find nothing wrong with my wife’s car. The shop’s manager, plugged the car into another computer, a machine which, he said, was far more sensitive than the computer at the smog check station. He said “maybe if you drive it around for a while and bring it back it will pass.” Huh? That made no sense to me, so I drove over to the well respected auto repair shop that services our cars. He hooked it up to his state certified smog check computer, a red light came on, and he said he wouldn’t smog check it because it would fail. This was before the the technician even did the test. I took it to an “official” smog check station yesterday morning but was told it could not be smog checked because it would fail the test. We have to do it or the State of California won’t let us renew our registration. I am about to take my wife’s 2007 car in to get it smog checked.
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