Just over 8,000 Jalisco car owners have been issued with fines for not taking their vehicles for an emissions inspection since the “Responsible Verification” program kicked in earlier this year.
The drivers have been stopped at checkpoints set up randomly on a daily basis in different parts of Guadalajara. Some 3,800 have been issued in the past month alone, suggesting authorities are ramping up enforcement.
Vehicles with Jalisco plates driven in the metropolitan area and a few other zones of the state terminating in the digits 1 through 5 should now have been taken for an inspection at any of the nine testing centers in Jalisco (six of them in Guadalajara).
The inspections can be booked online at verificacionresponsable.jalisco.gob.mx and cost 500 pesos (or 550 pesos if requested outside the established schedule). Nearly 80 percent of vehicles pass the test and are given a windshield sticker (calcomania) and documentation that should be presented if stopped at a checkpoint. Vehicles failing the inspection are given one month to get a tune up and can be taken for retesting free of charge.
For the full schedule of when to take your vehicle for an inspection, see the website indicated above.
Foreign-plated vehicles do not require inspections, and, at least for the present, neither do vehicles driven solely in the Lake Chapala area. Owners of vehicles bringing their rigs into Guadalajara on a regular basis might be wise to book an inspection.