Charcoal Canister Delete?
Cody Forbes
cody at 5000tq.com
Mon Jun 11 20:58:55 PDT 2012
Yes. Non-PZEVs have lesser quality fuel systems, lesser quality cats, and fuel tanks that are not sealed.
-Cody Forbes
On Jun 11, 2012, at 11:32 PM, Mark Rosenkrantz <speedracer.mark at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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