Unfortunately for him, the "Folks in CA" don't make the rules. The EPA and
Air Resources Board do...and that's regulated for all 50 states.
(The "Chrome Air Cleaners" aren't approved items anyway. "For
Offroad/Racing use only")
- Bernd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Crumley" <mcrumley@airmail.net>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: DML: K&N dissed at inspection
> At 09:36 AM 4/10/00 , you wrote:
> >It has to be the idiot in the shop then. If it has a CARB# and it's
legal
> >in 50 states...that means exactly what it states...LEGAL.
>
> Not necessarily. Here's what happened when I took mine in to get inspected
> a couple of weeks ago. I've been going to the same guy for the last 25
> years because while he is a fairly "by the book" kind of guy, he mainly
> just hits the basics (e.g. he doesn't check headlight alignment). He'll
get
> you in and out real quick and won't try to find something that's not there
> just to make an extra few bucks. Anyway, after he checks all my lights and
> horn and wipers I ask if he wants me to pop the hood since he has always
> checked the brake fluid. He says "Yes" so I do and he looks in and says
"OK
> you don't have one of those chrome cleaners." He says that people have
> learned that if you have one you had better take it off and put the
factory
> stuff back on or it won't pass. I ask him "What about the ones that are
> CARB approved and 50 state legal." He tells me that folks in California
> don't make the rules for Texas and that here in Texas if it didn't come
> that way from the factory it won't get passed.
>
> Mike Crumley 97 V6 Auto
> mail to: mcrumley@airmail.net
>
> I hope Costco and Price Club never get into
> the organ transplant business. Because,
> hey, who really needs a 24-pack of kidneys?
>
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