CA Emissions -- least fun state in the union

[Gjeep]

Any sort of non-compliant CARB approved tuning picked up through the PCM will be a fail at smog.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/california-start-testing-ecu-tunes-133700524.html 

[scaleless]

That's why everyone is moving to Texas, Florida, and Arizona.  For whatever reason people don't like suffering the highest cost of living in the US for a quality of life more appropriate for a Soviet gulag!

[Torq_Shep]

Having lived in Texas and Florida... Neither of those states are without their faults =P

 

[tugboat95]

I've been working in California for the last year or so. Still live in NC. I'm just blown away at all the draconian rules, taxes and fees you have to pay there. My job takes me all over the country. Seattle and NYC come close but nothing tops California. Company I work for can't even send certain pieces of equipment there that's used throughout the rest of the country. Just flat out banned.

89 Comanche
Eliminator
2wd
4.0L
5 speed PukeGoat
Factory Original

[scaleless]

You can't even buy the GOOD Brake cleaner in California!  I don't know how Jay Leno survives!

[Chad R]

   There is a family that I know that made it onto a game show and won a large sum of money. It was filmed in California.  By the time they got done paying all the taxes involved they got less than a 1/3 of what they won.

[eaglescout526]

1 hour ago, scaleless said:

Arizona

I mean ehhh. We have been cracking down on that stuff a bit harder lately. 

[scaleless]

1 hour ago, eaglescout526 said:

I mean ehhh. We have been cracking down on that stuff a bit harder lately. 

Well, yeah, but compared to California, New York, New Jersey and the like, AZ is a shining beacon of freedom haha!  I think it really boils down to proximity; people leaving CA don't want to go very far.  AZ is second in net migration rate only to Nevada, which seems to support that.

[eaglescout526]

8 minutes ago, scaleless said:

Well, yeah, but compared to California, New York, New Jersey and the like, AZ is a shining beacon of freedom haha!  I think it really boils down to proximity; people leaving CA don't want to go very far.  AZ is second in net migration rate only to Nevada, which seems to support that.

That is true I’ll give you that. 

[Minuit]

You could come down to backwoods Tennessee. I'm fully of the belief that some of the people around here have started breeding with vegetables, but hey - no emissions OR safety testing to register vehicles!

[fiatslug87]

At least we have relatively clean air considering the number of vehicles and do not have safety testing, if I remember correctly we did in the 70s.

[mjeff87]

Florida, specifically northern/panhandle area, including Southern GA.  Thats whats happening.  Wife and I just got back from our 5th trip down there in the last couple years.  Yeah, there are some faults, like everywhere, but probably in about 6-7years I'm thinking thats where we're going to migrate to.  Either that or St. Croix.

[scaleless]

Well of course every state has its own share of problems.  It's called the federal government!

[89 MJ]

There is a reason I call it Commiefornia. And I definitely stole that from someone on this forum. 

[eaglescout526]

6 minutes ago, 89 MJ said:

There is a reason I call it Commiefornia. And I definitely stole that from someone on this forum. 

I think I have said it a few times on here.

[89 MJ]

Just now, eaglescout526 said:

I think I have said it a few times on here.

I was thinking that it was either you or CoastChief. I couldn’t remember for sure though.