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Date:         Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:10:45 -0800
Reply-To:     Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject:      Re: new CARB rules for cats in Calif?
Comments: To: John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
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thanks for the clarification John.

by your logic then......... a person needing a good cat for a vanagon in Ca....... could just buy a new cat in another state, install it...... and be fine. Though I can just imagine big cat companies saying they're not allowed to ship such cats to a Ca address.

Subaru's btw, in vangaons...........run so cleanly that sometimes they'll pass a sniff test with no cat. scott turbovans.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "John Bange" <jbange@GMAIL.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 4:48 PM Subject: Re: new CARB rules for cats in Calif?

>> if I sell this 85 Adventurewagon I have for sale to someone in >> California........ >> I suppose they would automatically need the 'new standard' cat in Ca for >> it, >> to get through the van's first Ca smog check ? > > Nah. The law only says you can't SELL a cheapie cat in CA. When you go > to the smog check station, all they really check is (1) if it's there, > and (2) if it works well enough for the vehicle to pass the test. Even > then, you could have a hollow cat shell and an extremely well tuned > engine and you might still pass. The problem the California Air > Resources Board has in implementing its vendetta against "old" cars is > that it can't retroactively tighten the smog standards on older > models. They'd love nothing better than to be able to declare all cars > more than 15 years old "illegal gross polluters" and make everyone buy > a $40K hybrid, but they can't. A 1978 car originally sold in Arizona > can only be held to the 1978 federal emissions standard. An 85 sold in > California can only be held to the 1985 California standard. Things > like this catalytic converter standard are just one of the dozens of > nasty little tricks they've come up with to make it harder to keep an > older car on the road. > > -- > John Bange > '90 Vanagon - "Lastwagen" > '90 Vanagon GL - "Wiesel"


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