text: I HATE THE EMISSION TESTING SYSTEM IN ARIZONA I dread having to go there every two years to get my car checked They say Thank you for helping clean the Environment when you pass but are you really helping The older cars that need the tests the most are exempt from the testing Now today I had to go my car tested I somehow developed a flat while waiting minutes in line waiting for the test And they were more than happy to point it out to me Then they told me that they could not test the car with a flat So I had to go get the flat fixed wasting another hour there Then it was back over for another minute wait in the hot sun to get the car tested When I pulled into the bay they told me to turn the car off and go sit in that pleasant little booth while they tested the car The guy looked at my gas cap put a probe into the tank Then he charged me the charge At that point I thought he was going to tell me I failed because I had replaced the gas tank and had an issue with the input pipe Well he simply handed me the form and told me I passed WTF They never opened the engine never started the car never stuck a probe in the exhaust nothing just that little probe in the gas tank WHY IN THE HELL COULD NOT THEY DO THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE AND SAVE ME HAVING TO WAIT ALL OVER AGAIN Clean up the environment hell How can they tell if I am not polluting without doing some kind of test on the car itself or at least look at the engine Then I have to go home and register the car online The whole freaking Emission test system should be thrown out and the company that contracts the work shut down It is nothing more than a sham And why does Tucson get to pay half less Why do not people in Flagstaff or Prescott have to participate in the program They can come down the hill and pollute our air and we have to pay for it It is simply a moneymaking scheme for the state It serves no purpose whatsoever other than to drain our wallets