Im actually happy i passed. with 161k on the ticker, it didnt need anything new. Well, they charged me up the *** for license plate lights. I never knew there were two back there!

becasue the day I worte the post I was driving down the main street or one of the main streets here in town and at one point there were 4, yes 4 cars blowing insane ammounts of grey/white smoke. If you come here at night you will find out that 1/3 of the cars have a busted headlight and 3/4 of them have a serious accident or problem with the car/truck.


I would hate to have to go thru but when you live on a main street and have to breathe the burning oil/smoke of every 12th car that has a blown headgasket you might understand.

Worked for that emissions company. Being in the corporate office if you pay any attention what you find out is this.

A state like CT has emissions testing. No safety check..broken headlight wouldn't even be looked at....or a huge rust hole. They only test OBD II connector or tailpipe if you are before OBD II.

The test is 99% INaccurate. You could pass with a blown anything and fail with a brand new car. Biggest thing that fails a car up here is a gas cap not ventilating properly. It'* the biggest waste of money for people...but the Fed won't give funding w/o a clean air program if your state has bad air quality.

One night I noticed that mine were out. One was burned out, and the other...was completely gone....just a bit of plastic where the bracket used to be....i didn't see any wires or anything.