Ken, don't feel bad.  When I was growing up in New Jersey, cars had to be inspected every 6 months.  Then they made it every year when the lines got too long.

John Lauterbach
Macon, GA
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: KENWILFY@AOL.COM 
  To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM 
  Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 9:55 AM
  Subject: Re: You won't believe this one!!

  Here in New Jersey we went to dyno testing last year.  Here are my 
  observations so far: 

  1. Increases time of inspection by about 400% 
  2. Decreases the accuracy of emissions testing (we have had cars that never 
  passed the old idle emissions test, pass the dyno test!) 
  3. Increases the chances of damaging the vehicle, hurting someone, or causing 
  an accident.  Before a trip for testing was simple, now it is tense, hoping 
  that nothing bad is going to happen. 
  4. We are having emissions tests done on every car that comes through except 
  diesels.  I was very shocked and stupefied when I took a customer's 76 bus 
  through inspection and they put it on a dyno.  Here is a car that was never 
  really designed to meet any emission standard.  At the time I don't believe 
  they had a standard, so where are the Pass/Fail numbers coming from?   
  Anything before 1980 should be exempt at this point.  In NJ the rust catches 
  up with the older cars so that we don't have a ton of them like California.   
  The amount of pre 1980 cars that are used as daily drivers in NJ could 
  probably fit in my local Wal-mart parking lot.  What kind of environment 
  impact are these cars having? 

  Is there any organized effort to petition for some kind of different 
  emissions testing system?  The one we have now just isn't efficent and safe 
  (plus it is way more expensive than the old one). 
  Sorry for venting, but thanks for listening. 

  Ken Wilford 
  John 3:16 
  www.vanagain.com 
  Phone: (856)-765-1583 
  Fax: (856)-327-2242 

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