Smog Busters

Specialties

STAR Certified, Smog Check, Test Only

History

Established in 1991.

Smog Busters is a product of the California State Legislature. California had a problem with its emission testing program, mostly complaints from consumers who questioned the fairness of the test. The test was fair, if administrated correctly, and thatwas the problem. If a smog shop could «make» a car fail its test, they could sell the consumer, un-​needed repairs. That is exactly what made the Legistature act, and devise a system where the shop doing the testing had no vested interest in either passing or failing the cars they tested. That is when «Test Only’s» were invented. They do the exact same test as any other smog shop in California, except we are not allowed to do any repairs to the emission system. Makes to difference to a Test Only facility, if the car passes or fails, because we are paid for administrating the test, and nothing else. The difference between all smog shops is, «Test Only’s» can test any vehicle, regular smog shops cannot. That is all.

Meet the Business Owner

David L.

Business Owner

Born and educated in southern California, I worked in the aerospace Business as Ameica was locked in a space race with the USSR. I was a high precsion Machinest before NC tape machines were invented. My expertise was the ability to hold extreamly tight tolorances. One thousand’s of a inch was considered a parking lot. One ten thousand’s of an inch was a parking spot in the parking lot. Fifty million’s of an inch was the line that outlined the parking spot, in the parking lot. It was not uncommon to work with tolorance’s as tight as plus or minus 50/1,000,000 of an inch. That is a human hair, split it the long ways, 40 times. Take one of those and split it 10 more times the long way. take two of those and aim right in-​between them. That was the target you had to hit to be on my level of precision. We won the space race and I went to work for Chevrolet motor Division, as I had been a gear head since birth. LA got crowded and smoggy, so I moved to Monterey for 20 yrs then Sacramento.