Reply to "New Smog Legislation for California"

I am with you Miles. It's funny this subject is posted today when I got home, because I just returned from the smog police, "test only" station for my 85 Maserati Biturbo. I shake in my boots every two years doing smog on that car.

About 10 years ago with my Biturbo, I had to almost take a week off of work going from the test only station, to the referee, to my mechanic, and back and forth on and on. The car ran clean at the pipe no problem, but they didn't like that it was set up different than the metal smog plate on the car hood. My mechanic told me it will not run the way it says on the smog plate, as it was incorrect (set up was noted for Sweden with some other mods or something). Finally after a week they called my Italian mechanic, and he was pissed with his arms flying as they do. The state referee asked him for the number to a Maserati dealer near by, and since dealers were only in Italy, my mechanic shouted "sure, I can give you the number of the dealer, can you speak Italian!!!!!!? After a week of this kind of crap, the referee finally just passed it.

Again, clean air at the tail pipe, but not the visual. I was so pissed the next car I bought my wife was an MBZ diesel (F****** SMOG TEST EXEMPT!!!!!). Yes soot galore in the air when she hits the gas, but no damn smog test required, at least for now.