Automotive Defense Specialists
The Law Firm for the Automotive Repair Industry
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Free ConsultationOfficial “accusations” by the Bureau of Automotive Repair are a matter of public record. You can search for them. However, if you should happen to be the target of an accusation, you still have rights. But you should bear one thing in mind, and that is that trying to handle an accusation by the Bureau […]
The Bureau of Automotive Repair plays offense. They pro-actively go out and look for SMOG shops and auto repair stations that they believe are doing illegal things. And it doesn’t matter whether you are as good as gold: if they think that you are at fault, they will come gunning for you.
In today’s modern California, big bureaucracies have a lot of power. You need a license for almost everything these days. Indeed, it sometimes makes you wonder how long it will be until you need a license to eat or drink!
California has an unusual climate. The cold fog comes in from the Pacific and hits the warmer desert air, especially in the Los Angeles basin.
It can be a tough life running an automotive repair shop whether you are in Los Angeles or San Francisco, Eureka or Union City. On one side you have the customers, and they can get very angry with you when you fail their vehicle in a SMOG test as required by California law.
A citation isn’t anything more than an allegation by the government. It might be true. It might be false. It might be – who the heck knows?