I see said the blind man!

I understand now why you're asking.

I too am well aware of the smog BS. My old F250 (now my daughters truck) didn't have an underhood sticker like my Ex does, so I ordered one from Parts Guy Ed back when Ed was still working at Ford, since my old F250 should have had one.

And while my present truck doesn't have an underhood sticker, thankfully my valve covers do have the proper stickers showing non-cat needed.

Thankful because Ed no longer works at Ford so I wouldn't be able to order one and...well....I too will leave it at that.

Stewart

 

As others have said, I would check other smog shops. I am in the Auburn, CA area and I went through a similar problem with 1 of my vehicles about 10 years ago. The third smog shop I tried I found an honest but non **** owner and he passed the vehicle with no problem. At each shop I explained why the other shops would not pass it and he didn't care about what he considered a non issue as long as the required parts were there. I would get the cat welded on and try other shops. I figured it was better to be upfront with each shop so I didn't waste time going through a smog check just to fail the visual.

 

I'm so glad I live in Texas 🇨🇱

 

Thanks Stewart! I'm glad at least someone appreciated the extra effort at researching and posting specific E.O. and part #s, since we haven't heard anything from the OP yet.

 

The issue I have with the smog check in CA is that it's not a state-wide requirement. If you are close to a dense population, you are required to have a smog. If you live out in the sticks, they don't care. Take my county for instance (Riverside). The left half of Riverside County requires a smog check while the right half of the county does not require one.........

 

Update,

Still annoyed, but found an oem downpipe take off. Shop in chico happened to have one, so truck goes in monday to have them weld this thing together so I can finally get my tags. Going to look into that banks set up, but money is better spent fixing my girlfriends car so she can get to and from work safely. Thanks so much Y2KW57 for your research, soon as funds allow I will be getting that set up.

And hopefully someday I wont be stuck in Cali, but thats a whole different subject.

 

I am having the same problem and was wondering if anyone had gotten an the exception from c.a.r.b.
I bought this truck 4 years ago and it had a 4" downpipe to the cat and it passed smog now it does not.

 

Welcome to the site. Where in CA are you, very long state. I would suggest another smog shop, depending on where you are you may have anywhere from only one option but you could have literally hundreds.
Good luck

 

I am in Sac.
If I take it to another shop can they see why I failed at the last shop

 

In a answer, No.

 

I live near Sacramento, and my hood says catalyst, but I went and got a build sheet from Ford based on my vin, and it said no catalyst. The said they could order stickers for me for $65, but the build sheet has worked fine to smog with since I scraped off the hood sticker.

 

Njstern87 what part of Sac are you in? I grew up in Folsom, and lived all over that area. Used to work down in Del Paso Heights. I moved up to Idaho 5 years ago and never looked back. No smog, inspections, and DMV is only two ladies at a counter

 

Small world.

My brother still lives in Folsom and before he retired, his station (at least at one point in his career) was in Del Paso Heights.

Not a place for a first choice to buy a house.

Stewart

 

Definitely not. Luckily we didn't have to live there, just work. We lived in Fair Oaks and Orangevale are before moving to Idaho. Folsom is a nice area to live, but has become too expensive over the last 20 years.

 

He bought land in the Briggs Ranch development probably right about 20 years ago, and a few years after the land purchase, had his house built while they still lived in Elk Grove.

It's definitely a very nice area to live...not so much Del Paso Heights.

Stewart