Reply to "Pantera Failed Hawaiian Safety Inspection, Ideas?"

Seriously I would just drop it with this guy, this guy is only arguing with you out of principle at this point and won't backpedal because this is the only job this nitwit does all day. I would think it would be less hassle to ferry it to another island than deal with this idiot who will never be satisfied honestly.

I ran into bureaucratic smog shit growing up in CA. I bent over backward to run my supercharged fox mustang with California Air Resource Board (CARB) Executive Order Exemption Numbered parts. I had everything in hand listed at the smog station and they still hassled me and made me take off my radiator shroud so they could check timing. He marked the distributor so I could go home disassemble, drive back without overheating, let him check timing without running it on the rollers again, then drive back and put it back together. The guy claimed he still could not check the timing and finally just gave up after all that.

The dumbest part is I could have run a hotter cam vs the e303 and they wouldn't have known anyway as long as it passed the tailpipe sniffer test. Multiple ways to fool that thing anyway. The whole thing is a joke and was obviously enacted to fail cars that clearly are not maintained and are gross polluters. The ppm numbers for each vehicle type are averaged in a range over time as they became older anyway. So I could be running a hot motor and it would still pass while most vehicles of that age with their stock motors were deteriorating. My supercharged car was running cleaner than the stock examples tested the previous year. They should have paid me and not the other way around.

Just another way for gov to make a buck, otherwise they would have had the foresight to write legislation that doesn't penalize people who take care of their vehicles. I registered my car out of state after that experience.