This aint right is it?

Burntorange70 said
Just had to get my diesel truck smoged. There is no test. They just look at it and say. "yep there is a motor in there now give me 50 bucks".

I have to run emissions on my Cummins every year. They put the truck on a dyno and try to Lug it to get it to smoke. The funny thing is that it takes 40% opacity to fail. My truck has no emissions stuff on it, has bigger injectors and is chipped. The max opacity I have seen form my truck is 8%. Kind of pointless if you ask me.

Colohusker said
This has been in Colorado for a number of years, I can't remember how long ago I started seeing the signs for the smoking vehicle hotline at the emissions stations. I'm guessing it's probably been close to 7 or 8 years now. I don't think I've seen more than 3 vehicles in 20 years that I would say should have been called in. Well, 4 if you count my truck until it warmed up. I'm curious if there would be any way to request how many calls they get on their tip line, maybe through a FIA request?

Did a little digging, it's been around at least since 2000. Excerpt from http://raqc.org/postfiles/reports/h...youraircampaign/SmokingVehicleOptionPaper.PDF

The hotline generated a total of 5,360 complaints in 2000. As a result, the Mobile Sources
Division staff sent out 3,542 brochures. The Mobile Sources Division staff currently does not
follow up with the motorists who receive the brochures. With few exceptions, enforcement has
not historically been a high priority for local police or for the Colorado State Patrol.

I guess if it took me this long to find out that means there still are a lot of others that don't know about it.