"Mike Guzinski" <mguzinski@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now they toughened the standards since 2006 and on the new tougher
> standards my truck would have never passed. Now it has 158000 miles
> on it and it's cleaner than it was when it was only 4 years new.
Wait, can they do that??? (Well, yeah I guess they can do anything
they want, what are we going to do about it?) :-P It seems to me
though that as long as your truck meets the emissions standards that
were in place at the time your truck was built, you should be ok. I
mean, emissions standards are stupid to begin with, but this would
seem to just be common sense, and is usually the way laws are written.
Are they requiring Model Ts and musclecars to install cats and meet
the current emissions standards too?
I don't know if there is a "loophole" there for you, but I'd
certainly check that out if you haven't already. Some emissions
programs have a provision where if you spend X dollars trying to
remedy the problem, you will get a pass even if it is still failing;
that might be something to look into to. Can you register the vehicle
somewhere else or as something else? :-)
Sorry that I don't have any actual tech info for you; I'm sure
someone more knowledgeable about this stuff than I will chime in on
your cat question. Sorry to hear that they are hassling you this way;
best of luck with it!
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