California gross Polluter.....Every year? - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

ps2cho · #1 01-02-2011, 12:55 PM

My 260E failed as gross polluter last year when I smogged her, and registration this year is requiring a smog?

Is that right? It is supposed to be every 2 years, but does the fact it was a gross polluter change that?

Anyone know for sure?

Txjake · #2 01-02-2011, 12:59 PM

Yes and this year CARB will require you to make a public apology for driving a destroyer of the mother earth.... Time in the stocks and public humiliation comes the next year.....

cmac2012 · #3 01-02-2011, 01:00 PM

IIRC, my former van - '76 chev - landed in that category and I did have to smog it every year. I retired it under the $500 buy off of old vehicles a couple of years after so I couldn't tell you about expiration of that designation.

ps2cho · #4 01-02-2011, 01:16 PM

Found the answer after much searching....
http://www.honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=532175

Quote:

They told me that too.

But what really happens is after 1 year, they send you a notice to get smogged again. If you pass that then you will not have to get smogged every year.

If you get a gross polluter agian, then you will have to do the whole thing over again.

good luck.

cmac2012 · #5 01-02-2011, 01:46 PM

That could be what happened to me, seems to ring a bell. A bit of extra hoop jumping but not too bad.