A worst-case scenario emerged on Sunday, November 1, as emissions inspections rolled out across San Antonio and Bexar County. Drivers eager to get their vehicle registration renewed lined up hours before shops opened Sunday, only to sit for hours as a state-level coding shop denied testing companies access to the Texas database. The solution has been slow-moving.
For months, hundreds of shops around San Antonio have been toiling away to get registered as an emissions inspection site ahead of November 1. But when they opened their garage doors to customers Sunday morning, inspection sites couldn’t access the state database that tracks inspections for vehicle registration renewal.
It seems the issue is countywide, and only a handful of shops around the city have gained access, including Official Inspection Station – the company that caught the issue in real time and worked to get it fixed. So far, three locations (10480 Culebra Road, 9000 Huebner Road and 324 E. Nakoma Drive) are up and running…