Concord Smog

I took my 2006 Ford Mustang GT here after stopping at another smog shop that was unable to get my manual car to stay in the RPM range needed for the test, said he was sorry and suggested i try the dealer. I left, free of charge because he couldn’t run the test. On the way home i stopped here because it is right by my house. I asked if he would be able to smog the car and explained the issue the other shop had. He said he had never heard of the being a problem so i decided to give it a go because i needed a smog asap because i was selling my car. After trying repeatedly to test the car he said he wasn’t able to do get the test to run because the car was «surging several hundred RPM» on him and asked if i noticed that problem. It did not have that problem at all which i later confirmed after driving it again to another smog shop, and im sure such a problem would have triggered an engine light. So back at the desk so i could get the key and title back, he tells me he is going to have to charge me because of the owners policy but he would charge me less. Then he told that my car would have failed the test anyways because it was missing 2 catalytic converters. So he spent 45 minutes of my time trying to run the smog on my car, wasting my car, even though «he would have failed it anyways»… Really because you did a visual inspection under the car in the beginning and proceeded to charge me money, waste my gas, and 45 minutes of my time revving the engine on my car, when you were going to fail it anyway… Having a deal in place to sell the car that very day i went back to the smog shop that passed my car just 4 months ago for registration. I asked them about the alleged missing catalytic converters. He told me that the car had no such problem, that i had 2 catalytic converters on the car and that is exactly what was required for the car to have. So the technician outright lied to me, charged my for a smog that he just couldn’t do, wasting my gas, time, and money. My car promptly passed the smog test on the very first attempt and i was on my way. I will never use them again ever, and i will not be sending any friends here in the future.