AA Smog Station

I had 2 – 3 smog shops in the vicinity of this place to choose from and chose this one because of the «Pass or Free Re-​Test» sign. In my experience this is really important feature of a smog shop given that I always have pre-90’s vehicles that I’ve owned. When I walked in the guy working there initially didn’t see me, understandable as he had another car in the garage. When he walked in I told him what kind of car I had and stuff and he gave me a quote. Decent price and about average for my car. So I told him about what my car did 2 years ago when I had to smog. That it initially failed for high idle. That I took it to a STAR Certified Repair shop and that the shop didn’t do anything but let the car run for about 10 – 15 minutes the idle came down, they tested it, and it passed. I let him know this so that he too could do the same with my car so I didn’t fail right off the bat. He said that he couldn’t let it run for 10 – 15 minutes to wait for the idle to come down and if he turned it on and the idle was high I would fail and that I needed to get the issue fixed. I told him the only issue is my car is old and needed to warm up before being smogged. He said to run it on the freeway and warm it up and come back. This was sound advice if I knew he could take my car in right away. But if my car sat for even a short period it would cool down enough to have the high idle again. Anyway I told him I’d figure it out or go somewhere else.

I came here because I had the coupon. The coupon is half the price of the regular $ 60 smog check, however, if you don’t pass the first time, you don’t get a free retest if you use the coupon. The good news is I passed! The bad news is when I went to start my car, it wouldn’t start. He told me to take it next door to the Muffler Store so I did. Came out to be a $ 400 job. Kind of a bummer that it happened after my smog check but The Muffler Store helped me out a lot. Just an honest review of my experience. 1 star because I passed smog.

I’m back. Still good service. Always friendly. Always quick. Always satisfied. Thumbs up.

Real quick. I showed up at 9 and was out by 9:25. 35 w the coupon on their site. Not a bad deal.

First off i have to say this place or one working in particular IS OUT TO GET YOUR MONEY. I don’t have the name of the employee but brief description he is a very large Russian man. I was getting my car smoged and I had noticed the check engine light was on. After the man took my keys and drove off I remembered I had heard it’s a automatic fail if your check engine light is on. The man came back for my signature and I asked his which he replied yes it’s a automatic fail. I of course was a little annoyed when I found out he notice my car had the check engine light on and was going to charge me to run it anyways knowing it would fail and I would waste my money. I don’t know if this is how they run there business but I under any circumstance this is horrible I would not recommended taking your car here unless you like wasting money.

I submitted the picture of my receipt because $ 38 for a smog test on a car is pretty unbelievable. But believe it. With coupon, $ 38.
Link to coupon:
And yes a «check engine» light is an automatic fail. That should be fairly intuitive. And easily Googled.

Called ahead as I work until 5 and the tech graciously was going to accommodate me.
Got there and gave him my promo code. About 20 minutes later I was paying and out the door with my certificate!
Tip: look online for a coupon. Total cost was $ 38 with the coupon.

Great place. Told me my car was going to fail before they tested it and said they’d honor my coupon when I bring it back even if it was expired. I definitely recommend this place.

I recently took my car in here for a title transfer smog. Ed was really nice to my Mom and explained everything we needed to do. The service was fast and attentive and we were outta there real fast.
Apparently the business was sold to new owners in the summer of 2012 so I don’t think the previous comments are valid anymore.
Anyways, my Dad was a smog technician for years and this is the place he brought our cars and sent friends when he retired.

This place sucks they tryed to charge me an extra $ 30 bucks for the E-​VAP test (on older cars) they told me they have to charge extra to do it and that all the places do it…
WRONG i called two other places and they said that the EVAP test is free and dosent really take any more time there for they dont charge extra to do it… hhhmmmm thats interesting because AA SMOG WANTS $ 30 extra bucks to do it… lol
RIP OFF!!! I WILL NOT BE RETURING

This place sucks. They’re only after your quick buck!
I had a smog check done here and they failed me because of a check engine light on, only after doing all the checks. (they could have told me the check engine lt. is on before doing the smog check) They have to do ALL the checks in order to charge you. (Not good business) They wouldn’t honor a $ 10 off coupon because I had a light truck and coupon was for car. lt trucks and reg. cars are very similiar and smog checks are identical. They should honor coupons for light trucks. The lady wasn’t very professional and due to language barrier couldn’t understand her very well. Don’t go here, you’ll regret it!