Charcoal Canister Delete?
Mark Rosenkrantz
speedracer.mark at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 20:32:40 PDT 2012
But are the cars actually different in "pzev" configuration?
Mark Rosenkrantz
Typos sent from my iPad
On Jun 11, 2012, at 10:50 PM, TWFAUST at aol.com wrote:
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> Double checking on this, currently it is actually not legal to sell a PZEV
> in most states. In fact it is only legal for sale in nine states and only
> really sold in five. This is because the EPA does not recognize PZEV as
> existing, it's is a California only thing that was adopted by four other
> states and the EPA allows sale by dealers that are within a certain distance of
> the border of those states.
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> I have had a lot of dealings with the EPA, all of them dismal. For what it
> is worth the establishing legislation permits states to impose standards
> more restrictive than EPA, but not less so.
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> The one good thing about state standards, at least generally, if you are
> ordered to make "repairs" failure results in a fine. Generally, the fines are
> far less than the cost of repairs over most peoples expected lifetimes. So
> they just add on the fines to part of the yearly cost of doing business.
> For example, a guy I know owns a scrap yard. He was recently hit with a
> clean up order that would have set him back about $150,000, he would have to
> mortgage his house to pay it. He is 58 and makes about $50,000 a year, the
> fine is $2,300 a year. He is just going to pay the fines.
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