Firts California, Now the rest of us... (New US potential Smog laws)

[MikeDE]

2 things I wanna see all across our great nation:

1. Safety inspections including shit like ball joints and suspension bushings.
(some of the shitheaps I see make me wonder who is gonna die first)

2. National smog laws. Leave us 20+ year old cars alone, AFTER we pass a safety inspection, but test everything else. Hell, I would be OK with even a tailpipe sniff on all vehicles...and I am about to move to a non-smog city.

^this....ya know how many f'd up ball joints/tie-rod ends/leaky/bubbled sidewall-tired vehicles I have HAD to pass because the rules are not clear cut enough, i.e. Does the looseness have a visible affect wheel alignment? No? then here's your sticker, it blows out 2 days later, then you're at fault according to them because you touched it last. Yes? Then customer bitches like, well, a little bitch, then he gets his sticker, then he reports your store to Corporate, then he comes back next year to get another sticker(ask me how I know) after going to his Mechanic(who has no Inspection terminal) to get everything fixed.

And as long as it still passes the IM-240(NY req'd Dyno test for all 95 and older vehicles)then let it go on it's merry way.

[b*saint]

Im used to it. Mass has prob just as strict emissions as california if not more.