So why couldn’t I pass a smog check for the State of California? At this point things get really complicated, but the apparent problem is that the car’s onboard computer is stuck in the middle of some cycle or another. I agreed, being that it’s a relatively low mileage car that’s regularly maintained and runs beautifully. “Sorry, but there’s nothing I can do for you,” the shop’s manager said. The shop’s owner then came over for a consultation, and guess what? They could find nothing wrong with my wife’s car. The shop’s manager, plugged the car into another computer, a machine which, he said, was far more sensitive than the computer at the smog check station.
He said “maybe if you drive it around for a while and bring it back it will pass.” Huh? That made no sense to me, so I drove over to the well respected auto repair shop that services our cars. He hooked it up to his state certified smog check computer, a red light came on, and he said he wouldn’t smog check it because it would fail. This was before the the technician even did the test. I took it to an “official” smog check station yesterday morning but was told it could not be smog checked because it would fail the test. We have to do it or the State of California won’t let us renew our registration. I am about to take my wife’s 2007 car in to get it smog checked.
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