Misadventure from Smog check
08-18-2009, 07:55 PM
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Misadventure from Smog check
I went in today to get the Z smogged. Before that I did a fresh oil change and filled it with fresh Premium gas. Passed the smog check with flying colors 
As I'm driving home a couple miles from the smog station, I look down at the dash and see the mileage
WTF
It's reading about 20K over what it was when I drove in there. Flipped a U turn and drove back to ask them what happened
They claimed there's no way they could have changed the mileage. I started thinking maybe the smog tech did something wrong. I get in the cockpit and look at the dash and bingo, I know what happened. The smog tech had accidently hit the Eng/Met button and changed from miles to kilometers
Yeah funny. But now Calif will be showing my mileage as higher than it should be because the kilometers were put in the smog report as miles
Smog station says they can redo the smog test at no charge to correct it. I'm going to call DMV first and see if they can make the change. I want that bad reading off the records.
BTW, now I know why carfax is showing a higher mileage smog check from years ago
As I'm driving home a couple miles from the smog station, I look down at the dash and see the mileage
WTFIt's reading about 20K over what it was when I drove in there. Flipped a U turn and drove back to ask them what happened
They claimed there's no way they could have changed the mileage. I started thinking maybe the smog tech did something wrong. I get in the cockpit and look at the dash and bingo, I know what happened. The smog tech had accidently hit the Eng/Met button and changed from miles to kilometers
Yeah funny. But now Calif will be showing my mileage as higher than it should be because the kilometers were put in the smog report as miles
Smog station says they can redo the smog test at no charge to correct it. I'm going to call DMV first and see if they can make the change. I want that bad reading off the records.
BTW, now I know why carfax is showing a higher mileage smog check from years ago
08-19-2009, 09:56 AM
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I. But now Calif will be showing my mileage as higher than it should be because the kilometers were put in the smog report as miles
I'm going to call DMV first and see if they can make the change. I want that bad reading off the records.
BTW, now I know why carfax is showing a higher mileage smog check from years ago
I'm going to call DMV first and see if they can make the change. I want that bad reading off the records.
BTW, now I know why carfax is showing a higher mileage smog check from years ago
08-19-2009, 02:13 PM
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An emission station did that to me here (NY). They put the wrong mileage down on accident. I went to go sell the car and Carfax said that the OD wasn't the correct mileage. Lost the sale even though it was explained fully to all party's interested on buying the car.
08-19-2009, 03:37 PM
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I contacted the DMV and she said there's a form I can fill out and mail in. I'll provide pics of both miles & kilos too. Hopefully they can fix it
08-19-2009, 10:18 PM
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08-19-2009, 10:20 PM
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I know I didn't do it. I never display kilometers. I can only surmise the tech may have been interested and pushed a few buttons
08-20-2009, 08:55 AM
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08-20-2009, 09:03 AM
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