Cascade Crew

aaron_sK · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 7:17 am Post subject:

The story I heard was that the state is limiting how many exemptions a shop can give, so they're all afraid to do it now. I have never had a car fail to pass once properly tuned and/or running on Ethanol, so I have never looked in to an exemption that closely.

turbo_jimi · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:18 am Post subject:

flea · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:39 am Post subject:

Well 200 bucks for a T-stat is a rip-off for sure, but all you needed was 150 in repairs then they can give you a waiver if it still failed. I suspect they didn't do that though did they?

Anyway, they are going to phase out the emissions, don't know what that will look like in practice though, probably be the newest cars that will be exempt first then the older ones. They say it is because the program worked, better fuels, better fuel mileage, better emissions equipment on cars, and fewer and fewer cars being taken off the road due to emissions means that even the state thinks it's a waste.

turbo_jimi · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:51 am Post subject:

The shop was sure to throw in some incidentals for the extra 50 bucks. But I lived and learned.

kutison · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 12:21 am Post subject:

Here is an article talking about both our states

http://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting/2011/08/oregon_deq_no_plans_to_follow.html