Do most of you guys in California have a hard time with getting your car to pass smog? I'm mostly talking about 95 or older cars. Both of the cars that I've owned have been a bitch every year to pass smog and after doing some research it's a pain in the ass for everyone.
>>14100967
Get the tank until it's about to stall out right next to the smog shop, then drop 1-2L of E85 in the tank.
Pass the smog, put a 20L of normal petrol back in it, go about your business.
>mfw i live in a county where CA smog test is only required on title transfer
*Use laquer thinner, a gallon to about half a tank of gas, then blow down the highway for an hour. cleans your cat and your fuel will have fewer emissions
*best time to do a test is on a rainy day in the mornings, less visible smoke, colder so exhaust vapor doesn't visibly condense and people are generally nicer in the morning, even the smog guy.
>>14100986
you can do this with those cheap bottles of fuel additive (read: bottles of methanol) at dollar tree and you don't have to worry about running your fuel pump dry, you can do it to a full tank; anon is right tho, higher alcohol/methanol content will result in cleaner emissions.
>>14100967
In Mexico, you just register in a no test state or in one with lower requirements, is this not an option in the US?
>>14103321
In the US of A we have things called houses. We don't meander around from one dilapidated shack to another selling tamales off the back of a burro registering cars in places that we have nothing to do with
>>14100967
just pay off the tester
>>14103321
How are the car regulations in Mexico? Import laws and such
>>14103321
Depends where you have a mailing address, I live in a smog county, but my parents live in a county like this guy mentioned
>>14101156
So when I have newer cars I register them there. My DD is a 1964 so doesn't have to get smogged anyway.
>>14103346
The way smogs work these days it's pretty hard to do a bogus smog. I used to have my smog license before they started the dyno testing around 2006 or so, would just put the sniffer on another car, but with the dyno/on the move readings modern cars have if the sniff test doesn't match with the RPM/load on the dyno/road red flags will go up and your shop will get lasered off the face of the earth by the EPA satellite
>>14103343
Nigga, burro-delivered tamales are the best. Also borrow the adress of a relative or friend?
>>14103347
Heard it's not difficult if it has a clean title, between 2005 and 2011 and made in US/Canada, no salvages though (You can always bribe someone)
Can you read Spanish? more info here: http://eleconomista.com.mx/industrias/2015/04/07/sat-fija-nuevas-reglas-importacion-automoviles-usados
>>14103404
Can you import old jap cars?
>>14103405
Short anwser: no. But you can if it's a classic (30 yo or more) if outside NAFTA
