Posted on 04/25/2015 1:21:51 AM PDT by Cowman
I’ve got an 85 300ZX that just barely passes each time. I could use this bill.
When you know the world of construction workers and waitresses, and the working class.
Then you know what the “smog test” means, it throws many into homelessness, and wrecks many lives.
Many people live on the edge, month to month, and even when they think that they are getting ahead and have a Pickup truck, an apartment, and a $1,000.00 in savings.
The “smog Test” comes up and it all ends, they lose the truck, or the Toyota, the job, the apartment, everything.
Back when I lived in CT I had an F150 that failed since it was new — and Ford couldn’t fix it. After Ford fought with the state a while they granted a waiver for the sniff test. That’s when I figured out it was about money not smog.
Wow, Wow, Wow.
God I despise this stuff.
I don’t know how many decades this covers, but it destroys life.
No emissions testing for an antique. AND my property taxes went from $500/year to $5.85/yr. [Of course, I sacrificed ABS brakes, AWD, infrared wipers, TPMS, heated seats & steering wheel, super AC, CD player, 300 HP, AC Power Outlets]...but, but I do have a neat cassette player. Heh.
Were you around in CT, when emissions was handled by indi companies.....then the state took over and built mandatory emission stations .....that was a fiasco and now it back to indi testing.
From abortion to direct taxation to child protective services; isn't that what a Progressive, Command and control government does though? I know someone who was in charge of the formulation lab at a major contract research organization in the days before Obama.
He's a substitute science teacher now.
The waitress or sheetrocker that looses everything because of the smog regs may have been put in that position by our benevolent government.
When one sees it from decade to decade, it can be so hard to live through.
In my little county (~30K) we are exempt from the vehicle emissions inspections for Georgia. Rule is over 100K I think.
Us too! We’re still using an ‘86 Toyota Corolla. Works fine, but we hold our breaths with every smog check!
NJ, miraclulously did away with state inspection altogether for older diesel vehicles. I moved to PA, but kept my ‘91 Jetta diesel and my ‘04 Ram 2500 registered in NJ. So far in 4 years only one cop gave me flack for not getting a PA driver’s license. Supposedly I had 40 days to do so after moving here. I view myself as a temporary resident due to the many field deployments for work I have to the Permian Basin.
Crank windows? Hand-cranked windows is the ultimate jackpot.
Is the California Air Resources Board still employing folks with fake PhDs?
When I was a kid the thing to do was to get a clunker car and fix it up. Nobody had ever heard of TPMS (you kicked the tire) 15 Speaker bluetooth stereo (AM was just fine) Backup cameras (You have a mirror) or a car that parked itself (If you can't park it YOU SHOULDN'T BE DRIVING IT.) I have to wonder about the kids today that have all of this stuff and don't have any idea about how to do without these things.
“Thats when I figured out it was about money not smog.”
That’s way it’s always been in MD. If you failed but could prove you’d spent $400 on attempts to fix it, you got a waiver. They test every two years. My 1999 SUV is due in June.
Years ago I had an ‘82 Chevy that passed even though most of the smog controls were disconnected. It’s a scam.
...power windows, power brakes, power seats, automatic transmission, radio.......
That’s sarcasm...right?
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