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how do u know if your car is smog exempt?

  • Thread starter Thread starter jstang209
  • Start date Start date Jun 17, 2005
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jstang209

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from wat year did cars have to be smogged??
 

ram360

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I'm pretty sure if It came from the factory w/ smog equpt. it will need to be there.
 
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What state do you live in?
 
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cali.. its a 79 firebird
 
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cutoff in Cali is 1975

sorry
 

srothfuss

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When they switched to unleaded, they also added a lot of the smog equipment. I am pretty sure 1975 is the correct date.
 

crazypete

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Do what I do in MA...smogachussetts

find a shop that is open minded. Have them do some work for you so they think of you as a good customer....brakes, alignment, an oilchange is great (makes them think you'll come back for all the little maintenence there). Then ask them to inspect it. They dont want to piss off a good customer so they'll do what is necessary. I have heard rumors of those who put a different car on the dyno when the lamba probing happens.

A 26 year old car still needs to pass emissions?!?!?!?

Those hippies writing laws in cally need to wake up and look at the practicality of these laws. It just takes a lot of classics off the road for no reason. How many 1979 cars are daily driven anyways? Like maybe a handful. I was going to move to cally but then reading these laws they have killed it for me.
 
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