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Sugs
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Joined: June 02, 2005
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Location: Vancouver, BC Canada
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 Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:16 am Post subject: Air Care Test!!!!! |
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Hey everyone, up here in freezing cold arctic British Columbia Canada, we have a fun thing called Air Care! Basically an opportunity for the local politicians to make an extra buck a year on tests.
Maybe down south you guys call it smog laws... I've got to take my T3 in there by Aug 5 and let some asshole rev the shit out of it until his test is done!
I already failed by one (and that was before a much needed tune up) fault so I have a hope that I may be able to pass!
Any thing I can do to help my German Pancake pass this crap! Anyone else have these problems in their Province or State?
Thanks!
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quattlebum
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Location: Sacramento,CA
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:18 am Post subject: |
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| smog laws are crap... I'm glad my 74 doesn't have to worry about them anymore... |
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Sugs
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Location: Vancouver, BC Canada
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:21 am Post subject: |
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What do ya mean? Is there a certain age of a car that they don't test anymore?
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quattlebum
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:28 am Post subject: |
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in good ol' sunny california, I beleive it's anything over 30 years...
could there be something similiar in go ol Canada? |
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Big Fat
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Anything older than 20 years doesn't need to be tested in Ontario. 
That being said I *do* have a passed Air Care certificate in my bundle of paperwork from when the car lived in BC.
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Sugs
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Location: Vancouver, BC Canada
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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Could be but not in this area! Although that makes a lot of sense to me! I think the only way to dodge it here is to get collector plates but thats a route that won't work because of the plans for the car and the (mods). Hmmm... Ontario it's 20 years hey? Interesting!!
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urchin
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 4:48 pm Post subject: smog test |
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| Hey dont you guys have two different collector plates.Here in Nova Scotia I run antique plates on all my old stuff (cars anyway) No need for any kind of inspection and plates are only 25 dollars a year. Only stipulation is you just drive it to and from car shows and sunny days. Which to me means 5 months of the year anyway. |
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Russ Wolfe
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Location: Central Iowa
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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Just sell it to me, and I will title it in Iowa. No smog rule/aircare crap, and my most expensive AC VW is only $16 year registration. Most of mine are only $10. Drive them whenever you want.
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bigedd08
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Location: Nashville ,TN
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| Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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Here in Tennessee I believe anything before 1971 is exempt.
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greenbugben
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well in idaho u can get collector plates and its like 35 bucks a year and well average that out between my 3 cars that have them and its a full yea of driving and no smog crap!
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Sugs
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Location: Vancouver, BC Canada
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Why is this so difficult in BC? Not only that but only Vancouver has the law! My old town I lived in where I bought it didn't have this bullshit! Hmmm... Nova Scotia has Antique plates hey? I'll have to look into that, I only drive it on sunny days (fears of rust coming back [ya I'm paranoid with this VW]), and I don't insure it after September unless there is good weather and a reason! Well at this point I guess I'll just get some air care pass in a bottle and drive it on the highway for a while before I take it in and also give it a little tune up as well. Russ instead of you buying it I'm moving down that way wuhhoo! Later guys! (time to try to get some blasted work done)
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