NO!
My car has bad breath!
It just failed its first smog-check today. Well, technically that isn’t true; it failed the last smog-check because my check-engine light was on, and that means an automatic fail on the smog-check. This was the first time it failed because of emissions.
My car is producing too much NO, nitric oxide. (To quote my mechanic, “It’s way more than the limit.”) And, hopefully it won’t be too expensive to track down and fix. The current culprit is a little sensor that has stopped working correctly, but who knows if that is the whole problem, or just part of it!
Well, my car is eight years old, so I guess this isn’t too big a surprise.
The good news is that, along with its oil-change, my car got a brand new radiator today. The old one was starting to break down, and it finally sprung a leak. So it’s good to have that taken care of.