will a 1996 car have to go to emissions in illinois?
02-12-2009, 06:16 PM
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will a 1996 car have to go to emissions in illinois? my friend has a 96 and its been like almost 4 years and never went. i have a 97 and never got a notice?
02-20-2009, 06:49 AM
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02-22-2009, 08:21 AM
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Not always true - if any of your readiness monitors fail to complete their checks you could fail (i.e. having 02 codes tuned out).
Illinois doesn't sniff cars anymore on a regular basis. Hell the whole reason they stopped testing cars on a dyno (which was mainly for for NOx) is because they were popping engines left and right since most 96 and under cars nowadays have rather a **** ton of miles, aren't taken care of, or both.
Now - I hope no one gets the wrong idea - if you remove the cats on a street car that had OE cats (so post 1975 I think it was) you are committing a federal crime. Federal. Even if the state doesn't test for it if somehow you had an enemy that ratted you out to the EPA you are F-U-C-K-E-D
(doesn't stop me though
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Illinois doesn't sniff cars anymore on a regular basis. Hell the whole reason they stopped testing cars on a dyno (which was mainly for for NOx) is because they were popping engines left and right since most 96 and under cars nowadays have rather a **** ton of miles, aren't taken care of, or both.
Now - I hope no one gets the wrong idea - if you remove the cats on a street car that had OE cats (so post 1975 I think it was) you are committing a federal crime. Federal. Even if the state doesn't test for it if somehow you had an enemy that ratted you out to the EPA you are F-U-C-K-E-D
(doesn't stop me though
)
03-16-2009, 04:16 PM
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so my 95 wont need to get emissions tested? thats amazing- haa still a street car!
oh and btw i have a 97 cherokee and had to go take emissions the other day in it, well needless to say it doesnt have cats - its straight pipe'd w/ a bullet muffler, and always has the CEL on, so i rested the engine light by un hook'n and rehook'n the battery back up, drove to emissions and passed!
oh and btw i have a 97 cherokee and had to go take emissions the other day in it, well needless to say it doesnt have cats - its straight pipe'd w/ a bullet muffler, and always has the CEL on, so i rested the engine light by un hook'n and rehook'n the battery back up, drove to emissions and passed!
