Re: Smoke from exhaust after idling

Posted by HH56 On 2016/7/2 22:49:38

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If the smoke is persistent and visible or heavy enough to be seen and reported or sensed remotely -- particularly in the Los Angeles and Central Cal air basins -- we have a little bureaucracy out here called the California Air Resources Board. If the car is reported or picked up by a sensor they will ensure the car is fixed or parked by suspending the registration until it passes a test.

You may have read about a "clunker" program a few years ago where thousands of otherwise perfectly good older vehicles were turned in for a voucher worth a few bucks. The cars engines had to be scrapped and destroyed so none of the engine parts could be salvaged and reused. That was all part of CARB's unrelenting efforts to get anything that smokes, stinks, or "pollutes" off the road.