Wirelessly posted For the first time since 06 the emissions placed actually checked for cats. I failed inspectio in about 15 seconds :clap: Anyways, is this a new requirement by law or just new management.
what is this emmissions non-sense?? lol i dont know. but i thought the general consensus from everyone up there who was getting emmissions was that they NEVER check anymore
Yeah, just sent a PM to rutspeed for his catted DP Bit dumb honestly, if the car has a history of passing without an inspection I do not really see why they have to look... :unamused:
Yeah, I went in Feb and the guy put a mirror under my car and said, "nope, you sure don't have a cat" and still passed me. Most fo the time they won't care as long as the car passes.
I got my emissions done about 3 months ago by my house. The guy just plugged into my OBD2 port and checked my Gas Tank pressure. No visual inspection was done, and I passed with flying colors because of that.
I failed the visual inspection with the legacy even though I had the heat shields on. His reasoning was that since it was modified, i likely just welded them on. I demanded a refund and went down the street.
I heard it's a new rule as well, The [location removed] is subaru friendly as the tech is a board member i believe. Maybe you could convince them the flex section of the uppipe is a cat? :sx:
I'm almost positive that someone had a resonator on their car, told the tech it was a cat and was passed...
I remember them looking for a cat when I registered my FC RX7 in 2005. The same place checked when I registered my LGT a few weeks ago.
went to 2 different places last year for my car and my wife's. Guy used a mirror to make sure there was a cat on my wife's 04 TSX..... no mods at all. Other place didn't check my car.
it has been a rule always, no one did it though, i think they are jst cracking down lately. i was mirror checked and had no cat but i told him and showed the guy the up pipe and told him the cat was in it. he passed me. i got luck that time. now i have the turbo xs stealth back so i an just swap the cat pipe and race pipe when i go to get emissions done now
There is a place just past [location removed]. It's a car wash emissions place on the right side of the road, hard to miss. Very laid back.
I disagree. If they are supposed to check (and they are) we'll just be busting the laid back places by documenting them. Think about it. If I say I've never been visually inspected who's going to stumble across that post and think "we need to crack down"?
If anyone wants to start such a thread, please do it in Supporting Members only. If it is not a public forum, I think it is OK. Supporting Members being a private forum should be a safe place to put such a list of "Laid back Emissions" locations.
Do you restrict who can be a supporting memember? I think a post anywhere could still cause some serious grief for a "slack" inspection place. As a matter of fact I think this thread should be cleaned up.
I did mine in May on [location removed] and there was no problem. (No visual inspection). Probably depends on the shop and your rapport.
We restrict supporting members to people who have donated to support the site. I wouldn't expect inspectors to donate to see a list of lax locations, but who knows what lengths the government might go to screw us. I will defer this to Alex, but will stick to, if there is to be such a thread here on WRXatlanta, the only possible acceptable place for it would be in the Supporting Members forum.
I agree; however, I would be hesitant to have such a thread in the public section(s) of the forum as it may place those shops in a legal pinch. I would not mind creating a listing in a private forum, such as supporting members lounge.
Same thing happened to me in March. I said ok, i'll put my stock cat back on, you guys can inspect it and then i'll take it back off! What a hassle!
To add to all this, I've heard of instances where cops have used mirrors to check for cats. So be on the lookout for that too.:eek3: