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Originally posted by P250UA5:
Only required in the 4 [IIRC] metro counties [Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio], and those that border them, here in TX.

My parents are 2 counties removed, so they only pay registration, starting this year. TX dropped the safety portion for inspections.

I am in Travis County so I still have to do an inspection. It isn’t even close to an “emissions testing”. All they do is plug in a computer to make sure you don’t have any codes. If my gas cap is loose, I will fail yet some car blowing out a smog of black smoke can pass. Very stupid. Then on top of that, there is no longer a real safety inspection of vehicles. I remember when they checked everything about your vehicle for it to be safe on the road.

No smog checks for me with my Mustang Mach E…

I see them as a money grab by the state and auto repair industry.

Here in Free America, no smog checks.

We live in a state that doesn't require them, but when I still lived in Arizona they were annual.

Smog checks. Yet another example of the idiocy that is gov and the people that vote for them.

We still have it in the 5 counties of NE Ohio.
It's free but it's a PITA. They have been trying to get rid of it forever.

But then What would your unelected tyrants at Cal Air Resources Board do ?!