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The California Smog Check Program requires vehicles that were manufactured in 1976 or later to participate in the biennial (every two years) smog check program in participating counties. [1] The program's stated aim is to reduce air pollution from vehicles by ensuring that cars with excessive emissions are repaired in accordance with federal ...
The auto part needs to be approved by California Air Resources Board (CARB) to pass muster during a smog check. Hill had no idea that her replacement catalytic converter wasn’t CARB-approved.
Registers and regulates approximately 36,000 California automotive repair dealers. Licenses Smog Check stations, technicians, and inspectors. Licenses brake and lamp stations and adjusters. Mediates automotive repair complaints, saving California consumers millions of dollars each year in the form of direct refunds, rework, and bill adjustments.
Striped: Both safety and emissions testing required. In the United States, vehicle safety inspection and emissions inspection are governed by each state individually. Fifteen states have a periodic (annual or biennial) safety inspection program, while Maryland requires a safety inspection and Alabama requires a VIN inspection on sale or transfer of vehicles which were previously registered in ...
Federal authorities say they have broken a long-running California fraud ring that used sophisticated software to cheat on automobile smog tests.
Study guides and strategies: Older drivers have a few tips for those who must take the dreaded California DMV renewal test, with all its 'obscure and ridiculous' questions
For a license plate style to enter production, it needed to receive 7,500 paid applications by the January 1, 2015, deadline. [11] Only the 1960s style plate (yellow lettering on black background) received the required number of orders. The DMV began production of the 1960s style plates at Folsom State Prison in Summer 2015. [12]
There’s only about 18 months’ worth of license plate numbers left in California under the decades-old numbering scheme, prompting the Department of Motor Vehicles to hit the gas on its ...