Utes and Cats

dirty skirt · Post by **dirty skirt** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 7:20 am

they will know when you go for a pinkslip, the epa will know cause if the check the car then they go completely over it checking engine number and find out what the date of manufacture of the engine was and check stuff acording to that

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:51 am

dirty skirt wrote:hi all, im a rego inspector and if the vehicle has ADR 37 on the complience plate of the vehicle it by law has to have a cat convertor if it doesn't the vehicle will not be passed for rego and it is a $10,000 on the spot fine if caught by the epa inspectors(if rta notify the epa),if the police check car and not on there when it should be it is an instant defect with the car not to be driven and towed away. I think its from the 9/85 all petrol vehicles running unleaded has to have a cat.

To all the kids out there flaunting the laws - this is the truest piece of information posted on this thread so far. Listen to what the man has to say.

When I worked at a car dealer a long time ago a client came in chasing factory cats to replace the ones he had gutted as the EPA had fined him $10k, pulled over, they used an IR temp gun to test the cats, gutted cats are cooler.

If you don't run a cat you are breaking the law, you are releasing some seriously bad **** into the air and sooner or later you will be caught.

As for the question about whether a later model engine in a pre 85 car needs a cat, at least in NSW a cat AND an ULP filler neck is required to be fitted. For other states, would you seriously risk a $10k fine taking the information given on a forum by someone you don't know, living in a different state, to be gospel? The ONLY people that can answer these questions for you for YOUR INDIVIDUAL CIRCUMSTANCE, is the local RTA/DMV/whatever you call it. Write to the authority, get a response in writing, if it is something weird such as "you don't need a cat" then keep that piece of paper in the car!