I guess I got it good here in Connecticut. You get a general inspection
when you first register, then only a sniffer test every two years. I took
my Dakota through with an open cleaner, headers, High Flow Cat, flowmaster
with 3" pipe. I always thought CT DMV sucked.
Walt Felix
88½ Dakota Sport 4x4 and 2000 Ram 1500 QuadCab Sport 4x4
Walt@Walt-n-Ingrid.COM
http://WWW.Walt-n-Ingrid.COM
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>
>Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 11:47:37 -0500
>From: Mike Crumley <mcrumley@airmail.net>
>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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