On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:59 AM, John Bange <jbange@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd be tempted to bring it to another test station. I've had both my vans
> tested in several places, and each one of them has marked that part of the
> test N/A.
>
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  Ok, this is a Friday sort of rap...

   This is exactly why I find California and the CARB such a ludicrous
farce!   They make up really arbitrary stupid tests and standards that have
not much to do with what actually goes out into the atmosphere.  Test
standards that are mainly about what goes into or out of some computer, the
States cash register, some politicians election fund or offshore bank
account of corporations who've paid to get the laws they want.

  When they fail a vanagon for not being able to find it's charcoal
cannister (or something) and pass a couple of dozen coal-fired powerplants,
when they treat a 1.9 liter motor the same as a 9.1 liter motor, when you
can just go round paying more testers till you luck out and  find one
who'll do it and pass your vehicle, actual results being irrelevant or
arbitrary...really lame.  When you are told it is unacceptable to swap in a
less polluting motor...."just because" or because there is no CARB
paperwork saying you CAN....stupid!  When you think of the hundereds of
thousands of gardners, going round, every hour of every day all over
California... with those two-stroke power leaf blowers rather than sweeping
with brooms or rakes...it makes you wonder..."who makes these rules up,
anyhow"?

  When I camp around the desert winters and see all those Gi-normus diesel
motorhomes being driven to the store, with one retired guy aboard...getting
a few miles per gallon and yet some families can't get their 50mile per
gallon Honda CRXs to pass because the gas cap isn't air tight, or
something...Makes no sense to me...but then who am I ?  I am an outlaw,
anti-green who drives a non-compliant 2.0 liter 'verbooten' engine in my
old vanagon...Guess I should get social responsible and drive my big Ford
Pickup again..that is compliant in California...

  Friday...
  Don Hanson