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You own a 2016 Honda Accord registered in Gwinnett County. Your registration renewal is coming up next month. You need the emissions test done before the tags expire. There is just one problem. You work a demanding schedule; your mornings are packed, and carving out the time to drive to an emissions station during business…

Snellville has some real emissions testing options. Unlike parts of Gwinnett County where drivers have to search for a certified station, Snellville has Go Green Emission on Scenic Highway, Grease Monkey on Centerville Highway, and a handful of other certified locations spread across the community. For a city that has been part of Gwinnett County’s…

Braselton is one of the most unusual small towns in Georgia, and not just because of the Circuit of the Americas road course nearby or the surrounding wine country. It is unusual because the town literally sits in four counties at once. Braselton spans Jackson, Barrow, Gwinnett, and Hall counties. That is not a figure…

Most people expect their emissions test to be quick. You arrive thinking it will take ten minutes, but then you notice a long line of cars. Suddenly, your quick errand turns into a forty-five-minute wait you did not expect. It does not have to be like this. At Emission First LLC on Buford Drive, the…

Picture a Tuesday morning in Buford. You drive into Emission First LLC on Buford Drive at 9:15 in the morning. By 9:27, you are back in your car with a passing result. You open Georgia DRIVES on your phone before you have even turned back onto Buford Drive, enter your plate number and the last…

Here is something a little uncomfortable to admit. Most drivers who have been getting the Georgia emissions test done every year since the late 1990s have never actually stopped to ask what it measures. You pull in, a cable gets plugged into your car, something runs for a few minutes, and a printout says pass…

Sugar Hill has grown fast. Drive through any neighborhood off Buford Highway or GA-20, and you can see it — new construction, young families, busy commuter traffic heading toward Gainesville and Buford every morning. With all that growth comes one thing that catches many Sugar Hill residents off guard every year. The registration renewal notice….

You just installed a new exhaust on your car. Maybe it is a cat-back system that finally gives your daily driver the tone you wanted since you bought it. Maybe a buddy convinced you to do a muffler delete for weekend track days. Or maybe you deleted the catalytic converter entirely because you read it…

Norcross is one of the most densely populated communities in Gwinnett County. Thousands of vehicles are registered there across the Jimmy Carter Boulevard corridor, Indian Trail, Buford Highway, and the surrounding residential neighborhoods. Every single year, the owners of those vehicles need the same thing: a passing Georgia emissions certificate before they can renew their…

If you live in Duluth, Georgia, and you need your annual emissions test done, you have probably driven past the options on Pleasant Hill Road and Duluth Highway more times than you can count. You know those stations are there. You may have even used them. What most Duluth drivers do not know is that…