Took the Truck in for its annual inspection which usually cost around $42 bucks here in Houston. Inspector came back with in 5 minutes and said $12.50 please ! Could believe it..... Said it was cheaper because they do a safety check of diesel's and dont have to put them through emission testing....

 

Dallas, Denton and Tarrant counties are the same way... is it just Harris county that smogs cars down there? I don't know if you have any gassers, but Ft Bend isn't far, I know that my car is registered in Lubbock county (no smog) but got when it was inspected in Dallas it had to be tested no matter where it was from, I wonder if the reverse is true... take a car registered in Harris county and get it inspected somewhere else to avoid the smog check. The $45 vs $12.50 hurts when you're running multiple cars through...

 

I can't believe IL has not gone to emission testing yet to make a buck.

 

In Texas it goes by county - I used to live in Galveston County and they did not test for emissions, while Harris County (bordering to the north) did. Not sure if that's still the same, but a lot of south HC residents crossed the line to northern GC to get inspections.

 

In Texas, if your vehicle is registered in a county where they do smog checks, you have to get it inspected somewhere where they can do the smog test (thus costing $42). If it is registered in a county that doesn't require it, you can get just the standard safety inspection. Not sure what happens if you are registered in a non-smog county and try to inspect it in a smog county though.

 

It's county specific in IL. We have emissions testing in Cook County.

 

Here in Colorado, testing is required in the metro Denver area. It's $25 for gassers and around $60 for diesel. I say around $60 because diesel can set their own price and the going rate is that.

 

Less is always a good thing but I don't even see the need for the $12.50.
I'm sure you take care of your truck and do your own safety tests.

I'm glad Alabama doesn't have these tests (yet).

Random side question;
Is it true some states emission testing require the engine be rev'ed to redline during testing?
What if it sits for an hour while you wait and the first thing they do is start and redline?

 

They redlined my truck TWICE during the test this year. The two techs running the test on my truck were wearing hearing protection. I've never heard my truck make so much noise and I don't like it! Where's the emoticon for bend over?

 

Seriously? I've never heard of the redline thing. Here they just make sure your blinkers, wipers and brakes work.

 

It wont hurt one to redline it driving it,but it horrible to just free rev one.they should be idiot slapped.

 

They did perform the test on a mini-dyno. Rear tires were on a drum and they made a lot of noise when they were spinning at, oh, 95 mph. I don't know for sure and just spent a half hour googleing "utah diesel emissions test procedure" to no avail. The one common theme in all of the test descriptions is that the sensors are reading exhaust "opacity" or lack thereof. They measure the amount of smoke coming out of the pipe.

Utah code also requires an immediate failure (and potential fine) due to the removal of any diesel emissions control device. This is pretty much the same language used for removal of catalytic converters on cars.

 

Epic. So what your saying is they haven't a clue as to what they were doing to your truck.

 

Classic example of too much government.

 

I don't like handing my keys over to anyone especially some government monkey who abuses my truck because it's his job. He doesn't give a crap whether the truck explodes during the test. It's his job to run the truck to the limiter because some other government monkey told him to.

I know this sounds a little out of character for me but I have very little patience for these kinds of things. All the emissions stuff is rooted in people who think like this:

Guy gets yelled at by a fat Prius lady for having a diesel truck - YouTube