Question about California Emissions
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Melting Slicks
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Question about California Emissions
I'm looking to buy a C6 and was running through the CarFax. Says the car was purchased in WV, but then taken to California. It failed emissions 3 times and then suddenly passed it.
There is additional equipment for controls there, correct? What parts would have been installed to meet these controls?
Here is the VIN: 1G1YY24U955117180
There is additional equipment for controls there, correct? What parts would have been installed to meet these controls?
Here is the VIN: 1G1YY24U955117180
Melting Slicks
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I'm looking to buy a C6 and was running through the CarFax. Says the car was purchased in WV, but then taken to California. It failed emissions 3 times and then suddenly passed it.
There is additional equipment for controls there, correct? What parts would have been installed to meet these controls?
Here is the VIN: 1G1YY24U955117180
There is additional equipment for controls there, correct? What parts would have been installed to meet these controls?
Here is the VIN: 1G1YY24U955117180
Emissions testing in CA has different rules for a car you buy from out of state. It also must be retested again after 2 years.
Le Mans Master
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From: West coast CA
I'm looking to buy a C6 and was running through the CarFax. Says the car was purchased in WV, but then taken to California. It failed emissions 3 times and then suddenly passed it.
There is additional equipment for controls there, correct? What parts would have been installed to meet these controls?
Here is the VIN: 1G1YY24U955117180
There is additional equipment for controls there, correct? What parts would have been installed to meet these controls?
Here is the VIN: 1G1YY24U955117180
My '06 coupe does NOT have the California Emissions RPO (I purchased it out-of-state) but it DOES have the California Emissions sticker under the hood, and that's what the CA DMV cares about. They don't give a damn about RPOs.
Other owners have said that their C6s do NOT have the California Emissions sticker, so at some point GM may have left the sticker off cars without the RPO.
I doubt they had to install anything that wasn't there to begin with in order to get the car to pass. They probably had to put stuff back that had been removed (such as the cats) or remove aftermarket stuff that failed visual (non CARB-exempted) or caused the car to fail at the tailpipe.
Here's the problem: smog tests are expensive, and if you fail big-time you get a "gross polluter" blemish on the car's title. That car shouldn't have rolled into a smog station ONCE with equipment that would cause it to fail, let alone THREE times.
Last edited by torquetube; Aug 30, 2009 at 03:25 PM.
