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- From: rhorwell@atc.boeing.com (Roland Faragher-Horwell)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: remove your Cat - lose your car?!?
- Message-ID: <91572@bcsaic.boeing.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 17:01:27 GMT
- References: <2577@shaman.wv.tek.com>
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- > "Mind you, aside from replaceing it, the other two ways are
- > against the law is most (all?) states, and could get you some
- > big fines."
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- >More than just fines -- you could lose the car. It happened here in
- >Oregon a few years ago. The owner of a new BMW removed his cat and the
- >state found out. They required him not to operate the car until the
- >cat had been replaced by the *factory*. Said factory is in Bavaria,
- >and the cost of all this exceeded the value of the car.
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- >The local newspaper had a photo of the beemer headed for a scrap heap.
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- [Names removed to protect the innocent]
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- This sounds very "urban legend"-like! BMW service centers are authorized to
- perform work on the emission systems of all US models of their line. This includes
- replacing the cat! (they do this all the time). Dealerships will sell you a new
- cat - for you to install yourself! There is no law dictating who installs the component,
- only that the component be installed properly and that it function properly.
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- If this is a true story, the owner of the car is a complete idiot for not fixing it
- at the shop! I suspect that there is much more to the story than a missing cat - like
- maybe it was a euro-model that had been illegally imported - for this, they will crush
- the car. For a missing or defective cat (on an otherwise legal car) - I don't think so!
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- (I did see a Mehari get crushed about 4 years ago after some people bought it and shipped
- it to Seattle without considering safety/emission standards!)
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- Roland
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