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Smoging The Old Grand Cherokee!

Smog Regualtions
Posted November 16 2008 08:51 PM by K.McNulty 
Filed under: Editorials, Kevin McNulty

   I get a little nervous every other year when my Grand Cherokee’s DMV registration  shows up in the mail due to the smog regulations here in California. It seems like each year the specifications for passing vehicle emission standards gets more stringent. This isn’t really a bad thing, as I remember when California’s air was dark brown. Ahhhh, the days when the old lungs hurt from breathing that dirty air in, that really sucked. My biggest gripe, I guess, is about the price of any auto parts related to smog emissions, they know they have you over a barrel, these parts have to be replaced if bad.

 


   I was able to breathe a sigh of relief last Friday when I smoged the 1997 Grand, it passed with flying colors. I didn’t even have to buy any $200.00 plastic or metal tubes. Whew …

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