Smog Check Passed; Rolling Up on 120k
Jul. 20th, 2023 12:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerIt's time to get our Nissan Xterra 4x4 smogged. In California all vehicles have to pass an air pollution, aka smog, check every 2 years starting at 8 years of service. (There's an exemption for cars produced before 1976.) Our Xterra is now almost 12 years old. I drove it to a test station today.
Unlike last time (2 years ago) there was no drama this time. The test was done in about 5 minutes. We passed on the first try. I've reused the pic from 2 years ago, though. 😅
Our Xterra turns 12— that's the anniversary of our purchase, anyway— in August. Currently the car has just shy of 120,000 miles on the odometer. It'll be a little over 120k by the time the anniversary day rolls around.
10k miles per year (120k ÷ 10 years) is not a lot on average. Federal Highway Administration statistics suggest the average car is driven about 14,300 miles a year. Sure, many vehicles in the US are driven way less than that, including way less than our 10k. But those are typically cars that are driven only on occasion. They're third cars, collector cars, recreational vehicles, cars owned by people who live in cities and rely mostly on transit, etc. Our Xterra is a daily driver. It's just that with mostly remote work for 7 of the past 8 years I haven't logged many commuting miles. Indeed, our mileage in recent years is below the car's 10k lifetime average. In the past 2 years we've driven it only about 15k.
Unlike last time (2 years ago) there was no drama this time. The test was done in about 5 minutes. We passed on the first try. I've reused the pic from 2 years ago, though. 😅
Our Xterra turns 12— that's the anniversary of our purchase, anyway— in August. Currently the car has just shy of 120,000 miles on the odometer. It'll be a little over 120k by the time the anniversary day rolls around.
10k miles per year (120k ÷ 10 years) is not a lot on average. Federal Highway Administration statistics suggest the average car is driven about 14,300 miles a year. Sure, many vehicles in the US are driven way less than that, including way less than our 10k. But those are typically cars that are driven only on occasion. They're third cars, collector cars, recreational vehicles, cars owned by people who live in cities and rely mostly on transit, etc. Our Xterra is a daily driver. It's just that with mostly remote work for 7 of the past 8 years I haven't logged many commuting miles. Indeed, our mileage in recent years is below the car's 10k lifetime average. In the past 2 years we've driven it only about 15k.
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Date: 2023-07-21 05:33 am (UTC)Oh, and to be nit-picky: The old-car exemption is for the 1975 model year and older. Some 1976 model year cars are built in 1975, but they still have to pass smog. (Much to the dismay of some friends of mine who own 1976 model year cars built in 75.) Of that population, though, there were a very very few who managed to get some paperwork filed the last time the smog laws changed which exempted their built-in-75-but-model-year-76-cars from testing, somehow.
None of which changes your point, though.
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Date: 2023-07-21 09:34 pm (UTC)You mean the exception I noted in the first sentence of my blog post?
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Date: 2023-07-22 02:59 pm (UTC)Hmm, where's that reading comprehension of mine? Maybe behind the smug one-upsmanship?