New Smog Law in 2013? No Tailpipe Readings?
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Special interests and their ability to sell **** under the premise that its cleaning up the air when in reality it might be making miniscule changes and putting billions in their pockets.
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When you look at how much air pollution is made in countries like China, India and Phillipines on a daily basis, are we really making an impact with these strict smog laws in California? IMO we're not.
Unleaded gasoline and certain levels of pollution control are definitely a good thing
Bureaucracy for the sake of bureaucracy is definitely not a good thing
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Ofcourse but there are states in the US where smog laws arent as strict and they dont live in a cloud of pollution.
When you look at how much air pollution is made in countries like China, India and Phillipines on a daily basis, are we really making an impact with these strict smog laws in California? IMO we're not.
When you look at how much air pollution is made in countries like China, India and Phillipines on a daily basis, are we really making an impact with these strict smog laws in California? IMO we're not.
On the other hand, CARB is corrupt and should be disbanded. If we can pass the sniffer, who cares about what part is on it.
Comparing smog laws across different states are moot. The weather and land formations make a huge impact on how pollution sits in our air. Even NorCal and SoCal are very different, which I believe, should have different smog laws.
On the other hand, CARB is corrupt and should be disbanded. If we can pass the sniffer, who cares about what part is on it.
On the other hand, CARB is corrupt and should be disbanded. If we can pass the sniffer, who cares about what part is on it.
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I drove through Barstow this year on my way to and from Arizona and the smog was HORRIBLE. It was so bad you could see it from like 20miles away.
Star stations have the ability to test Star Only directed vehicles and gross pollutors. Regular stations dont. There is no variance in tests done at a Star station and a regular station.
Prices will drop just in time for state to force brand new machines on us and then prices go right back up.
Id be surprised if even 50% of repair facilities get Star certified. I know I personally didnt have a passing FPR grade 2 quarters ago and thats completely out of my control. Say I pass a car after doing a tuneup and 2 years down the line, it fails its next smog check and needs a catalytic converter or something else. Boom I get a bad FPR hit.
System is too weird/complicated now with things out of your control. Hence keeping a passing star grade for a repair facility is too hard if you're not turning down business left and right and cherry picking cars.
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For 2wd vehicles, they'll make sure you dont have a visible misfire as that'll be very hard to dyno and likley result in an abort causing a negative hit on the techs numbers. Also if the vehicle is heavily modded, it'll likely be turned away as different gear ratios and larger tires on trucks effect the rpm readings and if the variance is more than x% of stock, the technician gets a negative hit on his license. This is also similar to having a bad/late shifting tranny. Again things out of the techs control.
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