To Californians. Catyletic Converters...

[nando]

how is the factory CAT now illegal in CA? does that mean all the existing cars are illegal too?

[bmwstephen]

say what ? marked your cat ?what smog guys? at the test station ??

yah the new gold shield testing procedures are ridiculous. My Catalytic converter has been flagged for failure and any attempt to replace it with a used one or a non-CA approved version is prohibited.

[bmwstephen]

how is the factory CAT now illegal in CA? does that mean all the existing cars are illegal too?

no as long as you replaced the CAT before 2009. you are good. Cars with their original CATS are an exception.

If you buy the factory CAT brand new it is only 49 states emission legal as of 2009. NAZIfornia did it again...

[Thizzelle]

wtf, god damn hippies

[einstein57]

You should have spent the $20 on a pre inspection.

[nando]

no as long as you replaced the CAT before 2009. you are good. Cars with their original CATS are an exception.

If you buy the factory CAT brand new it is only 49 states emission legal as of 2009. NAZIfornia did it again...

how would they know it wasn't the original CAT?

[bmwstephen]

You should have spent the $20 on a pre inspection.

registration was coming up and I've been procrastinating. now I learned the hard way.

I mean I can easily resolve the issue by tacking on a universal cat but they usually don't turn out very pretty or last very long

[bmwstephen]

how would they know it wasn't the original CAT?

well lets say if I replaced my CAT with a used one before this test. I would've gotten away with it and be stuck in this mess

however, I didn't know my CAT would fail all of a sudden because my car passed smog two years ago. Because I found out the cat failed during the test, they flagged it and marked it on the spot. Now if I retest with a replacement CAT it will have to be a CA approved one.