4. Do a tune-up two weeks before the smog test. Have any required maintenance performed well before the smog test, Mazor says. Most mechanics disconnect the battery while doing a tune-up and this resets the car's onboard computer.
Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  Barnes(ProperNoun) An English topographic surname for someone who owned, lived in, or worked in a barn. 2  Barnes(ProperNoun) An English habitational surname for someone from the place of the same name in Surrey.
Albert C. Barnes. For other people named Albert Barnes, see Albert Barnes (disambiguation). Albert Coombs Barnes (January 2, 1872 â July 24, 1951) was an American physician, chemist, businessman, art collector, writer, and educator, and the founder of the Barnes Foundation in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania.