Random smog stops!
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Random smog stops!
i was told by two friends of mine that there were smog stops on newland at bolsa, edinger, and warner. I also one on a on-ramp onto the 55 right before the 5 interchange. so keep your eyes out for these.
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if your car has more than 50% of its mass in bondo(cough cough) they site you a ticket.
cant have cars not passing the crash ratings
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It was on the front page of the Orange County Register the other day.....showing how the damn thing works......
looks like my '65 Squareback is going to hits the streets real soon!!!
Although my 7 passed smog in February!!
looks like my '65 Squareback is going to hits the streets real soon!!!
Although my 7 passed smog in February!!
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i still think they will profile loud, ricey cars first Followed by gross polluters (aka beaters that look like they're about to blow up).
If you have a nice quiet exhaust you might pass under the radar.
If you have a nice quiet exhaust you might pass under the radar.
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I have a car that is over 20 years old...I mean that is my argument...as long as I dont have a 4" chrome tipped fart can I think I have a fair argument. I am planning on running the RB power pulse/primaflow muffler on my SE....with a straight pipe. Should sound great and still be quiet enough to not get noticed that much by LEO.
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next year I'm sourcing an SA and dumping all my TII stuff into it and making my current GTUsTII into an NA track car. Smog exempt in '09 and won't have to worry about any of this.
BTW is it a SoCal thing? I have yet to see them here
BTW is it a SoCal thing? I have yet to see them here
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uh pheonix, its wont be smog exemp, they stop that at the 75 model year, anything 76 and above will have to be smogged. just a side note. we are all fucked if we own 76+
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I think so too..if your car is in decent shape and you roll by in neutral and not revving it loud like some idiot...than you should be OK.
I have a car that is over 20 years old...I mean that is my argument...as long as I dont have a 4" chrome tipped fart can I think I have a fair argument. I am planning on running the RB power pulse/primaflow muffler on my SE....with a straight pipe. Should sound great and still be quiet enough to not get noticed that much by LEO.
I have a car that is over 20 years old...I mean that is my argument...as long as I dont have a 4" chrome tipped fart can I think I have a fair argument. I am planning on running the RB power pulse/primaflow muffler on my SE....with a straight pipe. Should sound great and still be quiet enough to not get noticed that much by LEO.
It's kind of like a dui check point your forced to go through it fart can or not
The government is watching your tailpipe
Remote sensors will be on O.C. freeway onramps this week in a hunt for the highest polluting cars.
By PAT BRENNAN
The Orange County Register
The drivers won't see much – a white van, a camera, a mirror and some other odd-looking equipment – and they won't be stopped. But their cars will be smogged and, if they are heavy polluters, a letter will arrive in the mail.
Specialists with the region's smog control agency are in Orange County through Friday with their remote smog sensors, which shoot beams of infrared and ultraviolet light through the exhaust plumes from the tailpipes of passing cars.
The technology has been in use for years, but for the first time, the agency is not conducting experiments or fine-tuning. This time, they are serious about getting "gross polluters" off the road – that is, as long as the drivers agree.
"This is strictly a voluntary program," said Sam Atwood, a spokesman for the South Coast Air Quality Management District. "It's meant to be an adjunct to smog check."
The remote sensor shoots the light beams across a freeway on-ramp into a mirror on the other side. The beam cuts through the tailpipe emissions and bounces back from the mirror.
Equipment aboard the van reads levels of various pollutants – hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides – based on how the light beams are absorbed by the exhaust plume.
Meanwhile, a separate camera snaps a picture of the car's license plate.
If the car is a gross polluter, one that emits 100 to 500 times as much as an average car, a kind of invitation is mailed to the car's owner.
And the deal might be tempting. Car owners can receive up to $500 to make repairs, or $1,000 to scrap the vehicle.
If they earn a low income and are willing to replace their car with a low-emission used car, they can get $2,000.
The problem with the standard smog check every two years, Atwood said, is that many cars might be given stopgap repairs that don' last very long.
Yet the gross polluters emit a disproportionate amount of the smog that hovers over the Los Angeles basin, which includes Orange County.
And a car needn't be visibly smoking to be a gross polluter. "I don't know that I've seen one that was actually smoking," said Atwood, who has observed many of the remote sensing projects in operation.
Remote sensors will be on O.C. freeway onramps this week in a hunt for the highest polluting cars.
By PAT BRENNAN
The Orange County Register
The drivers won't see much – a white van, a camera, a mirror and some other odd-looking equipment – and they won't be stopped. But their cars will be smogged and, if they are heavy polluters, a letter will arrive in the mail.
Specialists with the region's smog control agency are in Orange County through Friday with their remote smog sensors, which shoot beams of infrared and ultraviolet light through the exhaust plumes from the tailpipes of passing cars.
The technology has been in use for years, but for the first time, the agency is not conducting experiments or fine-tuning. This time, they are serious about getting "gross polluters" off the road – that is, as long as the drivers agree.
"This is strictly a voluntary program," said Sam Atwood, a spokesman for the South Coast Air Quality Management District. "It's meant to be an adjunct to smog check."
The remote sensor shoots the light beams across a freeway on-ramp into a mirror on the other side. The beam cuts through the tailpipe emissions and bounces back from the mirror.
Equipment aboard the van reads levels of various pollutants – hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides – based on how the light beams are absorbed by the exhaust plume.
Meanwhile, a separate camera snaps a picture of the car's license plate.
If the car is a gross polluter, one that emits 100 to 500 times as much as an average car, a kind of invitation is mailed to the car's owner.
And the deal might be tempting. Car owners can receive up to $500 to make repairs, or $1,000 to scrap the vehicle.
If they earn a low income and are willing to replace their car with a low-emission used car, they can get $2,000.
The problem with the standard smog check every two years, Atwood said, is that many cars might be given stopgap repairs that don' last very long.
Yet the gross polluters emit a disproportionate amount of the smog that hovers over the Los Angeles basin, which includes Orange County.
And a car needn't be visibly smoking to be a gross polluter. "I don't know that I've seen one that was actually smoking," said Atwood, who has observed many of the remote sensing projects in operation.
