Subject: Re: California Smog Regs - 2013 by rklessdriver on 2013/1/8 13:47:14
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Matatk wrote: Illinois only does smog checks on 96+ vehicles with OBDII....pull in to the state run station, they check your mileage and check engine light, plug in to the port, and you pass and drive away. No sniffer test at all. If you don't pass because the MIL is on, you have to fix it before you can renew your plates. Check require every 2 years.
Car older than 96? No emissions check.
Also, the test is free.
Same thing here in NoVA... OBDII = all they do is plug in the machine to the ADL port.
Now up here, cars older than 96 have to do a Dyno test where they check the car at idle and then at steady mph... unless it's registered with "Historic" plates but then there are restrictions on when you can drive it and the car has to be a certain age.
We went the historic route with the 79 but I set up an LLC and registered the 92 (to the LLC) in Ga using my fathers Engine shop address because they don't have emissions testing in BFE.
It's a money game to make people buy new "more efficient" cars. There are tons of C5 and C6's with huge cams, blowers, turbos, ect running around here that get a free pass at inspection because the tuner turned off all the codes in OBDII. Will
