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Jan 31, 2011 | 11:00 AM

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brian42

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Originally Posted by JOHN2001

Any personal vehicle should have a cat. If you are registering it from one state to another you might want to put one on it, they most of the time will do a visiual inspection to make sure everything is there. As far as a smog test you dont have anything to worry about, if you want to just throw(borrow) one from almost any truck so if they do a visual inspection thell see it there and be happy, when you get home just take it back off and youll never have to think about it again.

My CA truck does not have a cat. Sticker under the hood says "NON-CATALYST" on it. From what I understand (at least for CA), manual transmission trucks came with a cat and the automatics did not. Since it did not come with a cat, it is not required equipment to pass the inspection.