Lots of cars out there wouldn’t be able to pass inspection, for various different reasons, including emissions. Often, they go to shop where they know a guy who just slaps a sticker on for a few extra bucks. Or they may only do an emissions test and not a full or any of the safety check.
I thought there is a law that some old cars, before …? can be registered without having to pass a smog check.
I unfortunately live in New York under the criminal Cuomo and just having a warning light on is enough to fail an inspection. If your seatbelt light doesn’t go off after you buckle up they fail it. Now my car the ABS light wont go off which is a sensor for anti lock brakes. The car brakes work fine as do the anti lock brakes so it’s the sensor, but either I fix it myself which is a huge hassle or I pay a mechanic a ton of money to fix it otherwise it will fail. It really ticks me off because we never use to have any of this crap until leftists added 20 billion new regulations and requirements like a catalytic converter to prevent the “climate change holocaust”. Same with trucks. I drive a truck for a living. Now we have to add DEF fluid which is made of pee, urea - no I’m not kidding - because supposedly it reduces the evil carbon emissions to prevent climate change and already I got stuck in Conneticut for a day because the DEF pump broke. I think I cursed Al Gores name 10,000 times that day.