Certified Clean Truck Check OBD testing done in-house, with the repairs handled in the same shop if you fail.
Clean Truck Check is CARB's compliance program for diesel vehicles over 14,000 lbs GVWR operating on California public roads. It requires periodic emissions testing and annual reporting, and if you fall out of compliance the DMV will not renew your registration. For a working fleet that is not a paperwork problem, it is a parked truck.
We are a certified Clean Truck Check testing facility, so the test happens here — at the same shop that fixes whatever the test finds. That is the part most owners care about: if you fail somewhere else, you are towing the truck to a second shop.
Which test your truck needs depends on its engine year, and getting that wrong wastes you a trip. Call us with the VIN and we will tell you which one you need before you drive over.
Call For Service · 619·561·5317 ↗It goes by ENGINE year, not model year of the truck.
A failed emissions test is a repair order, not a dead end — and every one of these is work we do in-house.
It goes by engine year. Engine year 2014 and newer takes the OBD test through the diagnostic port — that is the test we perform here. Engine year 2013 and older takes the non-OBD test instead. Either way, call with the VIN before you make the trip and we will tell you exactly where your vehicle stands.
Motorhomes require one test per year. Trucks in the program are on a more frequent schedule — call us and we will tell you the schedule for your specific vehicle rather than a general rule.
For practical purposes, yes — people use both names for the same thing, which is why this is one page. Clean Truck Check is CARB's name for the program; the CARB test is what you come in for.
Yes. We submit results to the state for you. The compliance fee itself is set by CARB and paid to the state, not to us.
Non-compliance puts a hold on your DMV registration. That is the expensive part — it is not a fine you can absorb and keep running. The truck stops being registerable until it is cleared.
No, and running one does not satisfy the other. This is CARB emissions compliance. The 90-day BIT inspection is a CHP safety inspection and the annual DOT inspection is a federal safety requirement. Most commercial vehicles in California need all three on their own schedules.
The shop is on Riverside Drive in Lakeside, so the tow is short from most of East County — and a short tow is real money on a truck that will not roll. We take work from across San Diego County.
Call the shop and talk to someone who works on trucks. No call centre, no runaround.
