How do I get fined for catalytic converter removal?
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Originally Posted by willwren
People don't go to court over it. They're fined. Period.
Originally Posted by Barry
...anyone going to court and/or being fined by the EPA...
This is it, guys! I'm pulling the Abdul card!
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Giant bump. I have heard back from neither the EPA nor Abdul. It seems no one at all wants to provide any information on catalytic converter fines. I lost the $10 bet, too. I was told the police here have no ability to fine someone for not having a catalytic converter, so I can take off all the cats from my cars until Indiana starts emissions testing. Of course, I won't do that.
Could someone please point me to any documentation or any other form of information to show a person in a non-emissions testing state can get fined for removing catalytic converters? Sure, shops can't, but I can't find anything that shows privately removed cats leading to fines.
Could someone please point me to any documentation or any other form of information to show a person in a non-emissions testing state can get fined for removing catalytic converters? Sure, shops can't, but I can't find anything that shows privately removed cats leading to fines.
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Sure, shops can't, but I can't find anything that shows privately removed cats leading to fines.
with that being said, removing cats and installing performance parts is nothing new....it'* been going on for decades. i'd say you have a better chance getting struck by lightning than being caught without a cat. but at the same time you have to know full well that if you're caught...you gotta pay up
even in some emission states, they don't do a visual test for cats...only the sniffer and pcm test(for emission related codes). i've seen cars pass emission tests without cats....the regulations aren't that strict.
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From all that I've heard so far, people who have been caught have just said that they bought their cars like that. I'm sure someone'* responsible for putting a cat back on there, but they can just as easily be removed again.
The $10 bet was that I can show in Indiana it'* possible both to have a person who took out his cat on his own be fined and for the person who reported him to get $250 as a reward. So far, absolutely neither has been shown to be true at all.
The $10 bet was that I can show in Indiana it'* possible both to have a person who took out his cat on his own be fined and for the person who reported him to get $250 as a reward. So far, absolutely neither has been shown to be true at all.
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