CA wants to smog check motorcycles

Rider · 05-06-2009, 04:35 PM

I grew up in LA. Smog inspections are ridiculous. One of my first cars was a Nissan 260Z. I had a triple Weber carb set up on it so I could not run the stock thermostatic air cleaner on it and I would fail the emissions automatically on a visual check. It was a huge hassle. I had to go to a "referee" station 20 miles from where I lived and I had to have them look at it. Eventually it got a waiver because the car was a certain age(at the time the car was 13 years old) plus to go back to the stock set up it would have cost over $500. It's a joke, the money goes to the state of California with the smog inspection station getting a nominal fee. Don't kid yourself by thinking the state has no financial gain on emission inspections.

05-06-2009, 04:35 PM	#11
Rider Moto GP Star Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 12,156	I grew up in LA. Smog inspections are ridiculous. One of my first cars was a Nissan 260Z. I had a triple Weber carb set up on it so I could not run the stock thermostatic air cleaner on it and I would fail the emissions automatically on a visual check. It was a huge hassle. I had to go to a "referee" station 20 miles from where I lived and I had to have them look at it. Eventually it got a waiver because the car was a certain age(at the time the car was 13 years old) plus to go back to the stock set up it would have cost over $500. It's a joke, the money goes to the state of California with the smog inspection station getting a nominal fee. Don't kid yourself by thinking the state has no financial gain on emission inspections.