[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=flu]The one thing I absolutely can’t stand about CA…

The idiotic, bureaucratic CARB rules….[/quote]

California was the leader in clean air. In fact, the EPA eventually adopted California rules, as have other states who implemented smog programs.

The rules are made for everybody. If you don’t like them, put your car on non-op and make it a track car.

I’m sure people remember the polluted air back in in the 80s and before. Smog alerts all the time. LA was almost like Beijing. The air cleared up in the 90s.[/quote]

It is entirely possible to pass a sniff test but still fail carb because of stupid rules.

But what is going to be even more fun is watching a lot of you going in for the post MY2002 cars smog checks…..

Basically, those tests will require only an OBDII link, and if your ECU ends up throwing any CEL’s (even if it isn’t directly related to emissions), you might end up failing the smog test anyway even without a sniff check.. It’s not a problem for folks with OBDII scanners that can simply reset whatever fault codes or folks that have a custom flashed ECU that can do whatever to the ECU…. But it will be very very interesting to see what it does to the average person who doesn’t have that ability……