South Bay Smog Check Center

Quick & easy smog check. Friendly, excellent service & they take walk-​ins. Highly recommend.

Call to make an appointment and be in and out in 10 – 15 minutes. $ 10 off coupon online. No complaints here!

We were there early morning without an appointment. The guy was friendly. In n out in 15 minutes. He took the online coupon w 10 dollars off as well. Will go again next time.

My visit was seamless. In and out within 15 minutes. They also offer a $ 10 coupon online.

Place is good! I had to wait a little extra time because they accidental made my appointment at the same time as another person. Totally OK! We all goof! I talked to the staff about some of the cars the had in the back, we showed each other pictures and stuff. Cool guys, awesome customer service. I won’t go anywhere else! I have another car I just got the registration/​smog for… guess where I’ll be taking it?! Here!
Thanks guys!

Easy to get to, easy parking. In and out in 10 mins, headache free! The employee was friendly and helpful. and the chocolates on the counter were a nice touch :-)

Cheap quick and great customer service. Had it done today.

Super easy to get smog done, it is $ 60 for the smog check but it is also fast and easy. Whole process only takes about 10 minutes compared to other places that take maybe half an hour to an hour.

This place was very efficient, affordable and fast! I got my smog done in about 10 minutes. The service was great as well!

This is a great company. They let customers make appointments to allow for quick service. Jim is the owner and he personally takes care of customers. Even though this is a Star Smog Check Center for smog checks requiring a check only center, I prefer coming here for all smog checks. You will run into regular customers and they clearly know the owner very well. That tells me that there is a strong degree of customer loyalty.

Made my appointment a day ahead of time and my car was smog checked immediately. In and out in 20 min.

Very professional, efficient, and friendly.
I called in the early afternoon to make an appointment for the late afternoon (4PM). Jim was pleasant on the phone and gave me a choice of two slots. I arrived at the appointed time, waited about three minutes and Jim went to work. The shop was clean and simple, largely uncluttered in the work area. Jim knows his stuff (he has too!), and went about his inspection process thoroughly and efficiently. Great service that I’d gladly use again for my next inspection. Well done!

I called yesterday to make an appt (highly recommended) I got there 5 min before my appt time I was first he just had opened he was quick he does pretty much work a one man operation here that’s why you need a appointment. He’s usually pretty quiet and straight forward. Will be going next month to do the hubs car

I needed a fast smog check from a «star» smog check facility. I found South Bay Smog Check on Unilocal and was able to book the same day. Just as most other reviews said… get an appointment! No waiting, fast, conscience service… my car passed and the gentleman sent all the Info to the DMV… all I need to do is go online and pay the registration fee before I get hit with the late fee.
I will use this «test only» smog shop from now on… no creepy up selling, just the needed smog test!

My husband pointed out this Unilocal listing to me, and I decided to try it for this year’s smog check. Called for an appointment the day before, got the time I wanted. Showed up a couple minutes early, someone else was just finishing up, and then it was my turn. Since the couple of plastic chairs outside the door were, I figured, a bit closer to the action than I’d prefer, I decided to read my library book in the back waiting room instead, where there’s a few padded chairs. I read quite comfortably for the twenty or so minutes until my car was done, and he called me over the intercom. All set, no problems (pass! yay!), neither of us much for unnecessary conversation :) Will use this shop again next time the state requires it of me.
Getting into the driveway can be a bit tricky if you’re unfamiliar with it, as someone else noted. Here’s what you do.
Going west on Skypark, as you’re approaching the Lowe’s/Costco signal, turn right into the driveway *before* the Costco driveway. It’s not huge, you have to be kind of looking for it. When you see the «KEEP CLEAR» on the pavement in front of you, that’s where the driveway is.
If you’re going east on Skypark, you can get in if you get into the left turn lane at the signal. You’ll see the left-​turn arrows on the pavement have two points. See the yellow dashed lines on the pavement in the intersection guiding you where to turn? See how one branches left into Costco, and another keeps going straight for a bit? Follow that straight one and it will turn into the driveway.
So really the driveway is kind of on the intersection, the way they designed it. You get your own light in order to turn left or right on your way *out* of the driveway, too, which I’d never noticed before until I was there. This explains why sometimes when I’ve been waiting at a red there, it seems like no one has a green; it’s probably the driveway’s turn, but no one’s there. Great smog check experience, and (very minor) local mystery solved! Bonus!

I called first thing in the morning and was able to make an appointment immediately for the time I wanted. Jim was ready to go when I arrived and my car was done in less than 20 minutes. I was very happy since I had my toddler with me and didn’t want to entertain her in the green plastic chairs for long. My car passed, he filed the smog check and I was done. Didn’t even have time to go to Costco!

I’ve taken my car here a handful of times and never had a problem. Yes, this is a one man establishment, but I’m always in and out in 20 minutes or so. Also, I always call ahead and make an appointment because I don’t like to wait but I saw a number of customers coming in for smog checks and having to wait until after the previously scheduled appointments. Bring a magazine and relax for a few minutes while your car is being checked. I paid $ 60 for my car and it was electronically submitted to the DMV and I paid my registration online a few hours later.

I rarely give poor reviews, I’d like to think there’s enough negativity out there, but I had to review my experience.
It seemed like a one man operation run by the technician, James. I called ahead and the gentleman on the phone said I could drop off my car for a smog test. When I arrived the technician was chatting with his buddy, who it seemed was casually having some work done on his truck.
I walked in with another customer and she was able to get his attention. While he was working on the other customer’s car he was still chatting with his buddy the entire time. I waited patiently in plain sight trying to get his attention. After 15 minutes of waiting I finally went up to him to ask if I could leave my car for a smog check service. I filled out the paperwork and came back an hour later, per his instructions.
When I arrived to pick up my car, James (the technician) cavalierly informed me that he broke my door handle when he went to open my vehicle. He said it was common for the make and model of the car to have that happen. He said he left the piece that broke on my passenger car seat and that I could super glue it back on.
Between the complete lack of customer service and the way in which he handled (no pun intended) my door breaking I cannot recommend this business.

Really easy. Made an appointment for the same day, came in and got my car smogged and was out of there in 30 minutes easy. Definitely coming back here for the next smog check I need to do!

I stopped in Hilltop Automotive yesterday while I was up on the PV Hill, to see if they could do a smog check. Wow, these guys are great… they recommended this smog test place down on Skypark Drive in Torrance… because it’s a «test only» facility, meaning that they do no repairs so there’s no conflict of interest.
Made sense to me, so I allowed Hilltop Auto to call and make an appointment for me that same day, yesterday. (And now I understand why Hilltop Auto’s counter displays many hand-​written thank-​you notes in response to great service.)
Hard to find this smog place, though, so allow time to get confused. It’s between Sam’s Club and CostCo, just off Skypark, in the industrial park across from Lowe’s.
Coming from the east, if you turn into CostCo parking lot, you went slightly too far. Like I did. And you can’t get out of the damn parking lot without retracing your route… there’s a big ass wall between CostCo and Sam’s, can you say «captive audience»…
So I had to fight my way back out the CostCo parking lot, reminded of why I have never set foot in a CostCo or a Sam’s and hopefully never will…
Back onto Skypark I went, and tried to turn around for round two entry attempt. What happened to my formerly traffic-​free short cut to Crenshaw? Skypark used to be a secret route but now there are cars everywhere, word’s out.: (
Anyway. Five stars for the smog check guy. Very professional. The owner, Jim, did the test, and my 1:30 appointment happened right on time. No lines, no hassle = Momma Y smoggy seal of approval.
My baby passed her very first smog check with flying colors! *muah*
She’s almost 6! How time flies when you’re havin’ fun.
(I had taken her to Highridge hand carwash before the test, so she’d look like a new car, maybe that helped, haha…)
OK Miss Subaru, you’re good to go, so now let’s go run some canyons…