Stuck In Californias Smog Check Hell I am about to take my wifes 2. For the second time in two days. We have to do it or the State of California wont let us renew our registration. I took it to an official smog check station yesterday morning but was told it could not be smog checked because it would fail the test. This was before the the technician even did the test. He hooked it up to his state certified smog check computer, a red light came on, and he said he wouldnt smog check it because it would fail. He said maybe if you drive it around for a while and bring it back it will pass. Mozart Blogspot Rapidshare. Huh  That made no sense to me, so I drove over to the well respected auto repair shop that services our cars. The shops manager, plugged the car into another computer, a machine which, he said, was far more sensitive than the computer at the smog check station. He looked at the car. The shops owner then came over for a consultation, and guess what  They could find nothing wrong with my wifes car. Sorry, but theres nothing I can do for you, the shops manager said. The car is fine.   I agreed, being that its a relatively low mileage car thats regularly maintained and runs beautifully. So why couldnt I pass a smog check for the State of California  At this point things get really complicated, but the apparent problem is that the cars onboard computer is stuck in the middle of some cycle or another. But theres nothing wrong with the car and it should pass a smog check with no problem, according  to the mechanic. Frustrated, I called the state Bureau of Automotive Repair the BAR. After waiting on the phone for what felt like an hour but was probably 1. I finally reached one of their mechanics who told me smog check stations are given one exemption for the type of problem I was having because there really is nothing wrong with the car and that I should just keep going from one smog check station to another until I find one thats willing to pronounce my wifes car as roadworthy. I asked him what logic there was in a program that would force me to drive from one smog check station to another when a mechanic had already told me there was absolutely nothing wrong with the car. The BAR mechanic explained that the smog check system has been screwed down so tight in California, that some cars that were fine were being rejected. However, the smog check stations were given exemptions for the type of computer code issue my wifes car has, so that they could pass it. If they wanted to. But, if they pass too many cars with that particular type of exemption, it might eventually red flag the BAR, which might then threaten to pull their license for doing smog checks. They did things this way, he said, because there are bad people out there who are re setting something or another on older cars to defeat the system and some newer cars that are perfectly fine are getting caught up in the dragnet. I might be able to fix the non existent problem on my wifes car by taking it out on the open road and driving it for a considerable distance at highway speeds he said, but not too fast and not too slow and you cant step on the brakes and blah, blah, blah. My head was now spinning. I pressed him for an answer as to why the states smog check system is broken. At about this point he got angry and loud. I responded in kind, telling him I didnt care for being treated in such a fashion. The conversation deteriorated from there. 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Popup.png' alt='Pearson Vue Trick Wrong 2014' title='Pearson Vue Trick Wrong 2014' />And so here I am, without resolution in spite of the fact that I spent the day, yesterday, from around ten in the morning until four thirty in the afternoon, trying to sort this out. After an hour or so with a mechanic, who, I am convinced, is an automotive expert, I have concluded that there is nothing wrong with my wifes car. However, I must now take it to a second smog check station in the hope that a different technician will pass it for smog. If not, I guess Ill have to find a third smog check station and then maybe a fourth, or maybe Ill try driving out to Malibu and back at highway speeds to re set the onboard computer. Of course Ill have to do it without stepping on the brakes, apparently. Here in L. A.   Good luck with that. It has to do with clearing all the codes so that the computers monitors send out a signal that everything is working as it should. Its all very confusing, and that alone, might not be enough. To determine what should be enough, you can find instructions on How to complete a basic drive cycle on repairpal. There are five steps to it and you have to let your car sit overnight in temperatures below 9. Its way too complicated for a guy who just wants to get his car smog checked. In any event, it appears that Ill be forced to spend at least one more day dealing with this issue, as this second smog check station will require me to drop off my wifes car and leave it there until theyve had time to look at it. So it may require a third day of inconvenience if I have to go back over tomorrow and pick it up. You think theres something about this I dont understand   That maybe I have no right to be a little peeved  Lets review I took the car to a smog check station. The technician at the station refused to pass my car for smog. I then took it to an auto repair shop where a qualified mechanic hooked it up to his computer and told me there is nothing wrong with the car. I then called the BAR which told me to keep taking it to different smog check stations until I can find one that will pass the car. Or I can try taking the car for a long drive without stepping on the brakes which, according to repairpal. Ill have to go through a two day basic drive cycle process which may or may not work before taking the car back in for yet another smog check. Keep in mind that this appears to have nothing whatsoever to do with the exhaust the car is producing and everything to do with the drive cycle registered in the onboard computer. In other words, the exhaust can be just fine, the car can be within the legal limit for California, but it still will not pass muster on a smog check. I have to wonder how many thousands of Californians and their mechanics, are being forced to go through exactly this same exercise, wasting time and money, burning gas unnecessarily, because the states smog check system doesnt work. Its all very sad because generally speaking, the BAR does a very important job protecting California consumers. Theyve helped me out big time with a couple of automotive issues Ive had in the past. I just wish theyd fix this smog check thing. Maybe they could go back to measuring whats coming out of the cars tailpipe  Or would that be too simple  This is nuts. Okay, the mechanic who now has the car just called. Hes going to need to keep it for at least another day. The problem is that he and a second mechanic will have to take the car through a series of speeds at various distances with all four wheels rolling while its attached to a portable monitor inside the car. To do that, will require a considerable distance of open road with no other traffic. 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Dichas reglas mnemotcnicas ayudaban tanto a la memorizacin como a la difusin de los relatos. Es el caso de los poemas homricos, que han merecido valiosos estudios sobre el particular. Posiblemente, gran parte de las tradiciones y leyendas han tenido semejante inicio. Esta transmisin oral tena el inconveniente de los ruidos que deformaban el mensaje. La mayora de las veces era el narrador rapsoda, aeda, juglar quien en funcin de sus intereses la deformaba de una u otra forma. La escrituraeditarCuando los sistemas de escritura fueron inventados en las antiguas civilizaciones, el hombre utiliz diversos soportes de escritura tablillas de arcilla, ostracon, placas de hueso o marfil, tablas de madera, papiros, tablillas enceradas, planchas de plomo, pieles curtidas, etc. La escritura fue el resultado de un proceso lento de evolucin con diversos pasos imgenes que reproducan objetos cotidianos pictografa representacin mediante smbolos ideografa y la reproduccin de slabas y letras. Los ms antiguos vestigios de escritura se encuentran, hacia finales del IV milenio a. Battle Net more. C., en el Antiguo Egipto, con jeroglficos, y la antigua Mesopotamia, mediante signos cuneiformes escritura cuneiforme utilizaban una varilla con seccin triangular, que al hendir en placas de arcilla, dejaba una marca en forma de cua. La usaron los sumerios, acadios, asirios, hititas, persas, babilonios etc. La escritura egipcia, que perdur ms de tres milenios, mediante jeroglficos, representaba ideas abstractas, objetos, palabras, slabas, letras y nmeros. Evolucion en las escrituras hiertica y demtica. Otros pueblos, como los hititas y los aztecas tambin tuvieron tipos propios de escritura. La escritura china ms antigua que se conoce son 5. C. en el yacimiento de Xiaotun, en la provincia de Henan. Pero los primeros libros reconocibles de China corresponden al siglo VI a. C., los jiance o jiandu, rollos de finas tiras de bamb o madera grabados con tinta indeleble y atados con cordel. 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