Re: Late A4

[steveb@falcon.kla.com (Steven Buchholz)]

> HA>To
> HA>be sure, take a look under the hood of one at the dealer in Atlanta and make
> HA>sure the magic word "California" appears on the emissions sticker.
> 
> Even that's not necessarily true. As I understand it, only certain VINs
> are registered by the manuf as meeting "XX emissions requirements." Better to
> call DMV with your prospective VIN to check beforehand.
> 
... actually he was correct.  If there is a sticker under the hood that 
states that the car meets CA emissions standards, then there will be 
no problem registering the car in CA ... and I doubt there would be any
issue about a car with less than 7500 miles.  I was not aware that cars 
sold out of CA were getting these stickers.  I'd still suggest that the 
purchaser make sure that this will be the case on the car they will be 
receiving ...

I've got the opposite problem.  I just brought a CA car back into CA ... and
even though the CA emissions option code is obvious, the fact that there isn't
a "Meets CA emissions" sticker I'm going to be paying $300 that will be refunded after the DMV contacts Audi to confirm that it does ... :(

... all they look for is the sticker ... if it's there they don't even run 
the VIN to see if the car really was built to CA requirements.  More 
evidence that they really don't care about the environment or anything else
other than their bureaucracy ... my only satisfaction is that it will cost 
them money to determine that they need to return my $300, but I'm paying 
that too ...

Steve Buchholz
s_buchho@kla.com
San Jose, CA (USA)