[DeTomaso] LPC - Roadside smog dynamometer

[Julian Kift]

So this roadside comliance test is relevant to CA registered vehicles only, or they can pull anyone to comply with CA regulations indpendent of your home state requirements?
 
What a load of BS this is, I just went through similar with my semi hauler as to go comply with CARB I now need to have it retrofitted with a Diesel particulate filter system at a cost of $15-$20K, I just went for the 1,000 mile exmption and won't be visiting CA so much.
 
Julian
 

> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:19:08 -0700
> From: theemonkey at yahoo.com
> To: guido_detomaso at prodigy.net; detomaso at poca.com
> Subject: [DeTomaso] LPC - Roadside smog dynamometer
> 
> The CHP does this more often in southern California than up here,but yes it is legal and you do not have a choice.Yes, pre 1976 vehicles still have to be able to pass smog.Pre 76 cars and trucks are only exempted from from the bi-annual smog checks.I have heard from my Socal buddies they use a Jeep Cherokee that has a road side sniffer as you pull off or on to the freeway and can tell which cars are "dirty" and pull them over for dyno verification.
> Where did you see them exactly so i and others can avoid them?
> 
> 
> 
> Tuesday I spotted a pickup on a roadside dyno, on a four lane surface street 
> near a freeway exit.? Since the men with guns making it happen were CHP, I'm 
> guessing they were plucking hapless saps off the freeway and stealing first 
> their time and?possibly second their vehicles.
> 
> Anyone have the skinny this, especially:
> 
> What's the legal foundation for forcing participation?? Can a driver refuse, 
> both to participate or if not, refuse to allow the "officers" inside the car / 
> to operate the car?
> 
> Can they force a pre '76 ( not in the current smog check ) off the road?
> 
> 'Course they don't respond to home burglaries, vandalism, graffiti?anymore.
> 
> GD
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