[quote=The-Shoveler]The Smog check thing is a scam setup to get people to buy new cars etc… IMO.
I have a friend who moved to a small town in nor-cal (to retire) where they don’t have the smog test requirement.
I am kind of envious of him (especially at smog test time).[/quote]That is exactly where I might head in the next couple of years if I can get my CC account permanently straightened out with the bureaucrats, shoveler. I’ll take my (now 22 year-old) car with me cuz none of my kids want it, lol … and maybe I’ll end up buying a used 4WD as a second vehicle if it is a snowy locale :=)
I’ve also got peeps from “flyover country” (where my car wouldn’t be subjected to a “smog check”) who have actually offered to pay me FMV or a little more for my vehicle. They are amazed that I show up every year in it like clockwork, it looks and runs great and that it has ~275K miles on the odometer, lol.