I can't believe we don't have emissions testing in my county yet. When I get
behind a gross polluter, I wish we had it. There are lots of people around
here that will inspect a vehicle without INSPECTING it.

Roger

"Daniel J. Stern" > wrote in message
n.umich.edu...
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 wrote:
>
>> On 6 Jan 2005 18:09:19 -0800, wrote:
>>
>> >thanks for the suggestion. 1 week and $260 later my car passed the smog
>>
>> $260 is pretty cheap compared to some of the horror stories I heard
>> from failed car owners. In NJ, it seemed like the state was making
>> money from failing cars.
>
> When I was interning as an investigative reporter for the NBC-TV news
> affiliate in Denver, we ran a story about a lady who was the original
> owner of her 1981 Cadillac. It passed the tailpipe test with lots of room
> to spare, but was denied an emission sticker because the "Check Engine"
> light didn't come on when the ignition was first turned to "on". That was
> because the car had no such light, and never had. She produced ample
> documentation from the factory service manual clearly demonstrating there
> was no such light on the car, and even a letter from GM's regulatory
> compliance department stating the same. But Envirotest's infallible
> database claimed the car had such a light, so the state wouldn't budge. In
> the end, she wound up having to spend several hundred dollars to have a
> Cadillac dealership disassemble the dashboard and physically prove the
> nonexistence of any "check engine" light or space for such a light, under
> the supervision of a Colorado state agent. All in order to get a smog
> sticker for the low-original-miles, one-owner car that passed the tailpipe
> test with room to spare.
>
> DS