Automotive Defense Specialists
The Law Firm for the Automotive Repair Industry
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Free ConsultationWe lawyers are “word” people. What we do for a living, in our case as top attorneys vis-a-vis the Bureau of Automotive Repair, involves words. What do words mean? Where do they come from? Some of those words are “official words” as when you receive a formal citation from the BAR. Others are informal words, […]
We’re experts at everything to do with the Bureau of Automotive Repair. Most of our incoming calls are from SMOG stations, SMOG techs, or STAR Program stations who have received a letter, a citation, and/or an accusation from the BAR. They’re confounded, often angry – a) what have the done wrong, if anything, b) how […]
Updated: February 16, 2016 (We’re hearing reports of citations for using the old machine (using BAR 97 instead of the OIS new system), which are now being used to invalidate STAR even though the BAR originally said they would not use it to invalidate STAR).
The Bureau is trying to thin the herd of Smog Stations and Technicians and prevent them from qualifying for the STAR PROGRAM.