Vent: Bad Catalytic Converters (CA Sucks)

I hate to hear stories like this and feel your pain. But shit happens and in the grand scheme of things this ain't that bad.

 

In CA, how would the smog tech know if it's a OEM cat or an aftermarket? They go through thousands of cars and I don't think they can remember how OEM looks for every car.

 

they match the etched numbers on the cat with a data base, it something does not match its an instant fail and you flagged as having non legal parts.

This also goes with all aftermarket Air intakes and Headers.

you then have to go to special smog stations to get it fixed and certified as legal.

 

oh ok. But it just that I have never seen a smog tech crawl under the car and careful look at the cat to get the numbers when I go in for smog checks. They usually just take a peak under the car to see if there are cats. Most of the time for me, the smog tech never even looks underneath the car. They fiddle around with the gas cap and then do the smog test.

 

Thanks for pointing that out, but I never said it was only engine or mechanical problems. In fact I stated many other things can contribute to the failures.

 

i had my truck smogged in november 2014.. trust me they go over the entire vehicle with a fine tooth comb now.

 

or you go to the cool mexican guy with a 12 pack of carona and go, make it pass.

done that a time or two.

 

gut them and run 02 simulators

 

Not anymore unless he wants to lose his smog license.

California is cracking down hard on smog stations.

 

wow really, its been awhile since i have had to smog my vehicle.

 

Some will not view insurance fraud as an acceptable practice...

 

And what brain surgeon would steal cats off a 10 yo truck?

 

You must be new here.

Stolen catalytic converters are an epidemic in California.

Happens all the time off any car they can get under.

 

Emissions? catalytic convertors? Are those the annoying things sort people have?

 

have u heard these with no cats?

try long tubes, and a y pipe................rasp for days

 

Nope, until it malfunctions it stays on, once that happens it gets the sawzall special

 

they sound terrible without atleast 2 mufflers, I speak from experience...............not my ass

 

Not to reuse. To harvest the internals for sale.

So many basic brain surgeons. They graduate from the same school as the insurance fraud guys, just a different major.

 

CA is fine. It's just a beautiful land. It's the people that run it that create the silly problems. And the folks that keep electing/re-electing them. So taking a look in the mirror, or at your neighbors, might be where the root cause lies?

Well, if you get more than a form letter response pointing you to your nearest dealership for service we'll all be stunned. At that mileage, they have no obligation. Maybe you'll be lucky and get a deeply discounted price for the parts. Fingers crossed!

Well, there's a consideration for fixing it. I mean you can't sell it w/o emissions passing, right? So you either discount it the cost of repairs, or spend the $ for the repairs to be able to sell it. If you do the latter, you might as well keep it and enjoy it?