Vehicle Emissions testing is a necessary evil. So every year I bring the three family cars to the station. This year it took what seemed like 2 minutes for my 1999 and 2001 cars to go through the grind.
But there seemed to be a problem with my 1993 Mercedes Benz. It took about 20 minutes of testing on those insane rollers. Later, my mechanic told me that they are not supposed to put that model car on the rollers, apparently this shop didn't get the memo.
The guy at the shop asked me if the car was rear wheel drive. How about having this stuff computerized based on the make, model and year or even by the VIN number as to how to properly test each car. They even checked out the undercarriage with those security mirrors you see being used at military check points. Talk about overkill. I don't know if it's a coincidence that my air conditioning started blowing out hot air after the test the last two years I've been using this facility.
Yes, my car passed, or they were so incompetent that they passed it to get it out of the facility so that the considerable queue behind me could get tested.