03-28-2006, 03:43 PM
Want to hear something funny?
We've got emissions tests as well, but I've found they're mostly a joke. My car is 25 years old and needs some work. Odds and ends here and there, and for some reason there's a decent amount of unburned fuel passing through the exhaust. Meh. It's a work in progress.
ANYWAY, they require the tests, and I failed terribly. I ask the gentleman in the office just what I need to do now, and his reply makes enough sense.
"Take this readout to a mechanic who can run a diagnostic on your car and get the problem taken care of, then return and retest. Make sure you bring receipts for the work you had done." Okay, fair enough... but the receipt thing puzzled me. He explained, "If you don't pass the second time, you will get a waiver as long as you can show you had at least $450.00 in repairs performed."
*blinks*
So this is to help the environment... but as long as I spend some money on my car, it doesn't matter how bad it is. I got my waiver, and am free to pollute as badly as I want as long as I get it tested again in March of 2007.
We've got emissions tests as well, but I've found they're mostly a joke. My car is 25 years old and needs some work. Odds and ends here and there, and for some reason there's a decent amount of unburned fuel passing through the exhaust. Meh. It's a work in progress.
ANYWAY, they require the tests, and I failed terribly. I ask the gentleman in the office just what I need to do now, and his reply makes enough sense.
"Take this readout to a mechanic who can run a diagnostic on your car and get the problem taken care of, then return and retest. Make sure you bring receipts for the work you had done." Okay, fair enough... but the receipt thing puzzled me. He explained, "If you don't pass the second time, you will get a waiver as long as you can show you had at least $450.00 in repairs performed."
*blinks*
So this is to help the environment... but as long as I spend some money on my car, it doesn't matter how bad it is. I got my waiver, and am free to pollute as badly as I want as long as I get it tested again in March of 2007.
See you in Town,
-Z
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