California Legal After Market Cold Air Intake Kits.

Are any of the Cold Air Intakes, such as K&N or similar, legal to use in the Smog Test State of California? Do they change the ability of the 2021V-6 to pass a Smog Test?

 

Yes your 2021 has a stock CAI. Remove the charcoal filter, and replace the stock filter with a high flow dry afe filter. Boom save your self monies !

 

From my previous experience of having aftermarket cold air intake. You'll pay additional money during visual inspection. Your product must have a CARB E.O. number placard on it, thus complying with California legal aftermarket. If it doesn't have it, instant failure.

Options

1) Stock system is already cold air intake. Leave it alone

2) Find an aftermarket with CARB E.O. # and pay additional fee during visual inspection.

3) Use whatever system you find that is non California compliance, but return to stock during Smog Testing. Reinstall noise maker when Smog Test is complete.

 

Thanks for the straight up answers!

 

Crisis averted.

 

As long as the CAI has a CARB exemption number you are good to go. I've never heard of being charged extra for any mods during a California smog check, unless you fail the check and must come back for a re-test.

 

The TRD Aftermarket CAI system is CARB exempt IIRC.

 

Should be absolutely no extra charge if the CARB sticker is clearly visible and applied to the CAI. I'm not sure how your SMOG place could even chance that overcharge. If you got charged extra, you got ripped off. That's that's whole point of the CARB approved sticker.

 

Perhaps I did get ripped off. I don't know, but this was many, many years ago. Don't know if rules changed. I was listing my experience.

 

This.

 

I had my 2015 Jeep JK inspected twice in the last two years with a CARB approved CAI. No extra charge either time. Once to register in state, once to transfer ownership. Inspection station didn't even blink, just said "nice Jeep"

 

FYI, vehicles less than 8 years old are exempt from Smog in CA so it should be some time before you need to get your truck smogged. Additionally, some rural counties are exempt from the biannual smog requirement and only require smog when the vehicle’s ownership changes.

 

Unless you transfer ownership or register new to the state.

 

When did that start?
Ive been smogging my stuff the year after purchase for the last few years. My taco was from out of state so doesnt count but my 2014 Ford has been smogged 3 times

 

The exemption changed from 4 years to 8 years in 2019 https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/18vin19-pdf/

 

Not discounting your experience at all but I've been dealing with California smog checks since they started around 1984, even took a smog license course at the local college so I would know more than the smog tech, and never have I heard of an extra charge for a visual inspection on a modified vehicle.

The good news is the State has such tight control over the smog techs nowadays it would be very difficult for a shop to get away with such a charge today.

 

I mentioned transferred ownership in my post but yes vehicles less than 8 years old when first registered in CA from out of state will require smog. For those that ride, motorcycles are smog exempt but out of state motorcycles need a minimum of 7,500 miles on the odometer before being brought into the state and registered in CA.

 

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