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RobMac76

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Anyone here either have a CARB sticker they don't need for the 2019+ S&B CAI or can send me a picture of theirs?
I bought a CAI off marketplace with no sticker thinking I could just get one from S&B, but they want proof of purchase so I'm looking for other options. Screenshot 2025-04-28 151127.jpg
 
Don't have one.
Years ago I bought one off ebay. Worked for awhile. Then Kommieforina started running the numbers on the sticker and found out it wasn't for the intake I had.
Lucky for me, I still had the OEM intake. So I'd swap it on, pass smog, then swap back.

When my cat went out, I bought a non Kommie cat and put it on, less than half the price of the kommie one. Passed smog, till they started climbing under the truck to check the number, which there was none. So went to my exhaust guy to find one. Seems since I had the tow package option, my engine number was different than a non tow package engine. And there was only 1 manufacture authorized to make Kommie cats for it.
What a **** show.
Now that I live in free America again, they just plug in the OBD, no codes, and it passes. That's how it should be.
 
Don't have one.
Years ago I bought one off ebay. Worked for awhile. Then Kommieforina started running the numbers on the sticker and found out it wasn't for the intake I had.
Lucky for me, I still had the OEM intake. So I'd swap it on, pass smog, then swap back.

When my cat went out, I bought a non Kommie cat and put it on, less than half the price of the kommie one. Passed smog, till they started climbing under the truck to check the number, which there was none. So went to my exhaust guy to find one. Seems since I had the tow package option, my engine number was different than a non tow package engine. And there was only 1 manufacture authorized to make Kommie cats for it.
What a **** show.
Now that I live in free America again, they just plug in the OBD, no codes, and it passes. That's how it should be.
Yeah, I swap out the K&N on my wife's 4Runner every 2 years. I can do the same on the Ram if it comes to that. At least until I register the truck in AZ.
On the cat subject, I just went through that crap with my son's 2003 Tacoma. Had to replace both cats with CARB compliant units that cost double what any other cat costs just for the stupid numbers.... $800 for both on Rockauto was the best price I found.
 
Years ago, I added a bunch of performance parts to a truck i had. Everything came with a notice " not for highway use in Kommieforina".
Luckily, the parts were in places they couldn't see. First time I went to smog it, I was nervous if it woukd pass or not. Passed the sniffer test cleaner than when it was brand new AND had more power.
 
What a **** show.
Now that I live in free America again, That's how it should be.
Dude, the list is looooooooong regarding Kommiefornia and how things SHOULD be. But the damn democrats are like a cancer, this place is on its death bed and its terminal. CARB and smog checks are a total sham, all about money and has nothing whatsoever to do with the environment. Proof? Your example above-- clean tailpipe emissions isn't good enough, oh no no NO, you gotta buy overpriced "CARB-approved" parts (at two, three, four+ times the cost of the same exact parts purchased in 49 other states, just for a useless sticker!) and they don't give a dirty squirt of rat piss about your financial situation. If its about clean air, then the only thing that should matter-- PERIOD-- is the result of the test itself. Unless.... hmmmm..... the test itself is just another do-nothing sham? AAAAAAND, if they care so much about poor struggling families, but also claim to care so much about the environment, then why do they require a fee for the mandatory test? Why isn't it covered by the state? Cuz its a multi-billion-dollar money-making machine. Anyone reading this who disagrees and thinks CARB is legitimate, you're part of the problem.
 
Dude, the list is looooooooong regarding Kommiefornia and how things SHOULD be. But the damn democrats are like a cancer, this place is on its death bed and its terminal. CARB and smog checks are a total sham, all about money and has nothing whatsoever to do with the environment. Proof? Your example above-- clean tailpipe emissions isn't good enough, oh no no NO, you gotta buy overpriced "CARB-approved" parts (at two, three, four+ times the cost of the same exact parts purchased in 49 other states, just for a useless sticker!) and they don't give a dirty squirt of rat piss about your financial situation. If its about clean air, then the only thing that should matter-- PERIOD-- is the result of the test itself. Unless.... hmmmm..... the test itself is just another do-nothing sham? AAAAAAND, if they care so much about poor struggling families, but also claim to care so much about the environment, then why do they require a fee for the mandatory test? Why isn't it covered by the state? Cuz its a multi-billion-dollar money-making machine. Anyone reading this who disagrees and thinks CARB is legitimate, you're part of the problem.
A fee or paid by the state is coming from the same wallet. I would like to visit the beautiful parks and non city areas of CA but that’s about it for my interest.
 
We live in rural Northwestern Colorado which is within a CARB state. No emission checks, but it's retroactive CARB compliant on cat replacements even on my 1978 ranch pickup truck's cat. I purchased it used as a 2 years old Forest Service truck in Southern California long ago. Moved out of Los Angeles in 1981 in my early 20's, but can't seem to leave it behind.

Had two different groups of water resource people on our land this Spring wanting to install flow monitors on the creeks. Even cut through with lock cutters our gate to get their trucks into it. They mentioned the 40 million people downstream. I pissed into the creek flowing to California after they left. carb-states-map.png
 
A fee or paid by the state is coming from the same wallet.
Valid point, you are indeed correct. The state (and Fed gov) has no money that they didn't first steal from working people. But at least it wouldn't be a direct expense. Either way, the point is, the entire smog check program and CARB are multi-billion-dollar scams that hide under the guise of climate alarmism perpetrated by democrats, and the proof is obvious to anyone intellectually honest enough to acknowledge it.
 
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