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10-20-2015, 12:03 AM | #85 | |
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"If you bought the car used, as-is, without any warranty implied other than manufacturer's warranty, you are on your own as far as any check engine light is concerned." I doubt it. If NJ is like CA, it is ILLEGAL to tamper with, disable, or remove emissions equipment. The "no testing for X number of years" is true in CA also, but it does NOT mean you can legally take off all your smog stuff and drive around for 4-5 years then you have to put it back on. Also in CA, a private party can sell a car with all kinds of defects or problems and not be liable because he is assumed to not know anything about cars. Any DEALER is NOT excluded from that liability. He cannot claim ignorance if the exhaust system has been messed with. Did you get like a super great price on this car, or you WANT the exhaust mods? If not you might want to take the car back to dealer. They sold you a car with illegal mods without telling you and the sale is void (or it would be in CA.)
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Too lazy to go outside right now but it's not too bad. Just a layer of thick dust will appear on your finger upon inspecting the dash and crevices. Inside of all the glass has not been wiped down. Rubber mats is somewhat caked with dirt. You'll probably get done in 30-45 minutes. If you also use a steam cleaner, it'll take a little longer.
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So uh... You guys pretty much answered all my previous questions / concerns, but even though I said I'm probably not going to worry about this until another year or two as I have three years until inspection...
Are you guys ready for some more uninformed questions that will probably make you want to bash your head in? :-D If I swapped the OEM header and CAT back on - would I have to change the rest of the exhaust components as well (looks like ARK GriP)? And / or if I didn't change the remaining exhaust components, would I still have the CEL issue? (Don't mean to necro post, but I'd rather keep my dumb questions in one thread when possible so that it's an easy point of reference, and so that one day I can hopefully look back and laugh at how dumb I was ...) |
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(If I had the OEM parts I'd just slap them all back on, but since I don't I'm really just trying to see if there's any way to minimize costs to meet inspection standards, if not, then to hell with it and I'll go back to the original plan of worrying / swapping in 2-3 years when inspection is needed... At the end of the day I've read some conflicting reports on exhaust mod fines so even though there's no immediate concern I'm a little anxious is all...) |
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Man time really flies... I made this thread about 3 years ago / I'm approaching 3 years of ownership...
I am still intermittently getting the P0420 code - it usually comes on stays for a while and then leaves - but I feel as though it's been staying on longer recently and I'm anxiously waiting to see if it'll go away on its own again (could temperature have something to do with this?). I''ll probably opt to go to a shop in the next month or two as I am up for inspection in December - but assuming no exhaust leaks and that the catalytic converter is fine (I haven't noticed any signs of either, no hissing noises, fuel efficiency seems fine, acceleration is fine) - what is there that I can really ask them to do aside from installing a spacer? |
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You guys use a sniffer for smog? If I remember this thread correctly you bought a used car with headers on it? A sniffer will know if your cats are deleted. If they just check obd then you'll be fine since you won't have any codes. If you are gonna have to swap components for smog regularly, I suggest you learn to do it yourself or it's gonna get pretty spendy. And some shops may turn you away because of the legality of installing/swapping non street legal parts
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If you have the OEM header on there, remember that you have an 80,000 mile extended emissions warranty. You can bring the car in to the dealership and get it replaced for free.
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That's true, but at this point I'd think he might have the modding bug, might be well enough to just upgrade it and get the torque dip tuned out Quote:
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I personally would suggest you install a UEL header or EL header and get a OFT tune at this point. If as you said you still have the ark exhaust it may be pretty loud though, and require a different cat-back all together if you're worried about drone and attracting attention. But you'd, as someone else said, get rid of the emissions nonsense if your state doesn't do sniff testing a tune will hide the lack of CAT pretty well. Here in PA we do OBD-II inspection and "visual" inspection and mines past for the last 3 years
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