Failed Smog, Intake hose fault Options

[daazndood]

I understand this, I wasn't referring to him replacing the hose with another [non CARB certified] hose, I was referring to the tape he said he had on the hose.
That makes it a repair, not a modification, just like if you repaired a hole in your exhaust with an exhaust patch.

To me that should be legal, even in CA, though like I said I'm not 100% certain on how they work there.

Yea I agree with you all the way. But from what i take on it is. The car has to look 100% factory for it to pass.

If you patched up your intake piping properly without leaks, and they saw the patch; they would still fail you because it has been "modified".

It sucks too, because to replace that intake piping with the original one cost around ~50-100 dollars.

I once took a car to get smoged, and they failed the car because there was electrical tape on the intake box that holds the filter.

freaking rediculous. they could just look at it in 2 seconds and tell us to take it back instead of wasting everyones time pretending to smog check it when they already know its gonna fail the visual test. what people do for money...

[nics]

I passed Test Only smog with a cracked intake pipe. it was crack at the throttle and had a opening. i use some plastic putting on it to harden up but didnt help. The smog guy saw it and had to get a flashlight to take a better look at it. but i still passed it anyways.

When i bought it last year, it already has a crack. I never knew about the visual thing for the smog. The guy whom I bought it from managed to have it pass. BTW It was a smog only station where I took it.

[nics]

I understand this, I wasn't referring to him replacing the hose with another [non CARB certified] hose, I was referring to the tape he said he had on the hose.
That makes it a repair, not a modification, just like if you repaired a hole in your exhaust with an exhaust patch.

To me that should be legal, even in CA, though like I said I'm not 100% certain on how they work there.

Yea I agree with you all the way. But from what i take on it is. The car has to look 100% factory for it to pass.

If you patched up your intake piping properly without leaks, and they saw the patch; they would still fail you because it has been "modified".

It sucks too, because to replace that intake piping with the original one cost around ~50-100 dollars.

I once took a car to get smoged, and they failed the car because there was electrical tape on the intake box that holds the filter.

freaking rediculous. they could just look at it in 2 seconds and tell us to take it back instead of wasting everyones time pretending to smog check it when they already know its gonna fail the visual test. what people do for money...

business is business, nothing we can do.

it was my first time to smog my own car...
not knowing abt these things is my fault...
but look at the bright side... NOW I KNOW!