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Originally Posted by OTB
Windshield mount laws are generally not enforced but lets just say you get pulled over. Most likely they will tell you to remove it and drive away without a ticket. If for some odd reason the cop gave you a ticket for it, I am sure the fine will insignificant but probably easily dropped in court. On a side note, oddly enough mounting it on your dash is legal in all those states but a dash mount blocks more of my vision then where I mount it on my windshield. Luckily it is not illegal in NC but it is in SC and Ga (where I am from) and I was never aware of it until now.
Catalytic converter is a much different animal. First off, it is a federal law that was passed in 1988 with the EPA Clean Air Act and carries much higher penalties.
Fines for the owner can be up to $2500 and for the institute that removes it, up to $25,000
Chances are you won't get caught unless there is an inspection in your state.
However, is it really worth the risks and headaches for something that won't lead to much gains? Even if you gain anything at all, any notice to those gains would be purely placebo.
Here is the law if anyone is actually interested in reading it.
Title II | Clean Air Act | US EPA
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You are more likely to get a windshield obstruction ticket then an emmisons ticket.
How many federal law enforcement officers are out there in all pulling cars over for checking federal law.
And as for federal automobile laws that get broke on this forum all the time.
Bumper height restrictions
Bumper crumple zone restrictions
Headlight violations (hid swaps)
DOT compliant wheels
exhaust decibel limits
DOT compliant driving lights and tailights
Frame height specification
And probably several others but there is no agency out there enforcing these laws.
The EPA is just more governmental bureaucracy that is draining the country. They are closing down the last Lead smelter in the united states this month. People lose jobs, Lead products will have to be imported form overseas, batteries will cost more, bullets will cost more and everything else with lead will increase or disappear.
Yet - If you have big money or well connected IE Dupont, you can keep polluting and caring on with no consequences.
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