College La Mesa – Smog Test Only Center

Found a coupon in the Penny Saver for a great price on a smog check and took my husband’s truck down there. They are in a gated lot with about 6 or 7 other businesses, which made it confusing, but we found it. The guy said it would be about 30 minutes, we told him we had a couple errands to run and would be back in about 45. We came back after about an hour and my husband’s truck was almost done. I dropped him off, headed home, and he pulled up about 8 minutes behind me, so not bad.
When my car needs to be smogged in January I’ll definitely come back if there’s another coupon :)

My wife visited this shop with our car and found the service to be very unprofessional.
She found the employees who were working to be rude as they were smoking in their office as she was there. She didn’t care that they were smokers, but that they were smoking around customers. She had our 3 year old daughter with her, they didn’t seem to consider this. There wasn’t really any concern for customers as we’d find out.
My wife was the only customer and the smog check alone took 45 mins… her car was running the entire time. Her entire visit lasted about an hour. They had taken their time to even assist her. She was not happy at all about their service at all. There was no waiting area under cover, she was standing around outside in the sun. They advised us to visit a friend’s shop nearby when our smog didn’t pass for what would probably be a large fix. We left, found that the fix was small, easy, and minimal. We went to another shop and the car passed with great service.
It wasn’t because the car didn’t pass the check, it was because of the horrendous service.
Better Option:
Our previous smog check was a lot better at Discount Smog Ctr, they were very friendly with a decent waiting area. The service only took about 20mins it is located at:
7633 El Cajon Blvd
La Mesa, CA 91 941
Go there instead!

OMG! I cant believe this place. So by CA law I don’t think you are supposed to be affiliated with any repair shop if you are a test only smog station. I could be wrong but either way to me its a conflict of interest. So I go to get my car smogged and it fails. I’m devastated. The guy that runs the place starts telling me all the right stuff. He will retest it… its barely failing… etc etc. Oh! did I mention he charged me for oil because he said he couldn’t pass me with such little oil in the car!
Well he retested it and it fails. Good thing he owns a repair shop down the street! Not only is he telling me what repairs I need to do (at his shop he will give me a discount) to pass smog but also telling me what else my car needs. How convenient!
I was getting a real weird vibe from the place. Its kinda tucked back off the street in a sort of swap meet of different repair shops (its really weird– goggle map it). I was like I gotta get out of here. I just didn’t feel right.
I left and the next day I went to another smog station and passed. the guy from college smog said that he has the best machine for testing and if I fail with him there was no way I would pass anywhere.
I hate to write a bad review but he totally tried to scam me! BEWARE