> Like here, you'll find that there will be offers of cheaper tests. 
> Watch for
> the bait and switch.  They will fail your car, 9 out of 10.  Take it to
> somebody you trust.
 Hopefully my mechanic (out in the boonies, which will probably be
smog exempt) will look into doing checks. I absolutely detest city shops.
They all expect you to drop your car off, leave 'em the keys and walk away
  I want to watch, I expect that if my appointment is at X o'clock I'll be
  in a bay within a reasonable time.
They all expect to hop right into your car and pull into the bay...
  whooaaa nelly boy, this thing ain't your everyday grocery getter that
  barely moves at idle, and power brakes that'll stop you in an instant...
> Start a protest movement.
Protest?  Remember, I'm in Canada...
> I wouldn't worry about it.  Unless you've removed some of the smog
> devices...:)
Er..Ahem... The truck is about as close to stock as I'm as close to my
birthweight.
> By then they'll change it to every car and truck, 4 to 25 years...
Grrr...  At least my car will still be exempt...
> exhaust car nowadays.  When you do, there's always someone writing down
> the license plate and calling 1-800-SMOKING...
A smog snitch line?
> If you're from out of state/country here with a smoking vehicle, it gets
> impounded.  Poor Mexicans can't afford to drive across the border.
This only applies to smoking vehicles then?
I'd hate to make a trip to CA with my truck (which surely exceeds CA emmsion
limits for that vehicle) and be met at the state line with a tow truck.
> It'l grow on you...:)  Frankly, I enjoy the clean air.  Smog in
> California was
> at it's worst in the 70's.. Back then we had 30-40 days a year of
> dangerous smog days.  Now we have 3 or 4...
While I don't have anything against clean air, its the way that this stuff
seemingly gets rammed at me that I dislike.
I'd hate to build a low use late model street hotrod that only sees a few
miles on the road a month, then get hit by some legislation that suddenly
tells me I've got a hurdle.    Not to say that hurdle isn't jumpable, but
the fact that if you build it within legal limits at one point, and then get
hit with a legal change which doesn't allow grandfathering in of existing
"legal" vehicles I get jumpy about it.
If I start building something to meet these limits, fine, I take the
appropriate steps. But if I've got a fine tuned machine with a few bucks
into it, I do not want to have to spend another fortune to put back a
computer and probably re-do the entire engine if its on the ragged edge of
streetability to meet the new requirements.
No doubt all thats been said in California already. =)
Alex.
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