some smog questions

[littlemilla3]

I have a couple questions about smog checks in California. At what point is a vehicle required to take and pass smog checks? Is it every 2 years? Also, if you buy a car out of state and it's been smogged there, when you get it registered in CA, do you have to re-smog it immediately or wait like 2 years or whatever? thanks dudes

 

[leet]

It's every 2 years, I believe you have to smog it if you are bringing it in from out of state.

 

[littlemilla3]

When do you have to start smogging your car? Is it after it reaches a certain age?

 

[littlemilla3]

/sneakybump/ anyone know??!

 

[Thomas91169]

i think its any car made after 1972 must be smogged every 2 years. im almost 99% sure because i owned a 74 mustang 2 and i was waiting for them to make that year smog exempt so i could rip apart the smog crap, but that never happened. and i believe you only need an ctual visual inspection if youre smogging it from out of state to register it here in cali.

 

[Defiant]

They keep changing the exemption date. It started out as ten years, then went to fifteen, then twenty and now I think it may have stopped advancing. Current new cars get a pass for the first five years.

It's bi-annually for most cars, and I think now it's all over the State. For many years, "rural" counties were exempt from the bi-annual. Which year you go is determined by the last digit of your VIN, even numbers for even years etc.

Dynamometer testing has come in for many areas, but AWD cars don't get put on them.

You have to get a car smogged when you bring it in from out of state and register it for the first time, then you're back on its bi-annual schedule. You used to get a "skip" if you were between years, but of course the bastards have stopped that as well. Big tax income, you know.

 

[littlemilla3]

They keep changing the exemption date. It started out as ten years, then went to fifteen, then twenty and now I think it may have stopped advancing. Current new cars get a pass for the first five years.

It's bi-annually for most cars, and I think now it's all over the State. For many years, "rural" counties were exempt from the bi-annual. Which year you go is determined by the last digit of your VIN, even numbers for even years etc.

Dynamometer testing has come in for many areas, but AWD cars don't get put on them.

You have to get a car smogged when you bring it in from out of state and register it for the first time, then you're back on its bi-annual schedule. You used to get a "skip" if you were between years, but of course the bastards have stopped that as well. Big tax income, you know.

Well that sucks, guess I'll have to swap in my ka24de twice a year :thumbdown