Fine For Decat Pipe

[Iron Mike]

Just wanted to know what the fine for running a decat pipe is, and whether anyone's been done for it? I hear the fine is something ridiculous like $10,000 and mobile EPA officers at defect stations can d!ck you for this simply by getting an emissions reading and extrapolating the fact your car is passing out very dirty gases.....can someone shed some light on this?

[Moodles2]

EPA victoria will apply to you: http://epanote2.epa..../$FILE/1031.pdf

Bare minimum fine looks like $1000 (1 penalty unit). If you knew how many penalty units having a decat would give, add 3 zero's on the end.

If I had to guess, you would get 1 penalty unit for every exhaust gas (nitrogen, water vapour, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, ozone?, lead?) which a cat converter would otherwise have dealt with on some scale.

So it's easy to see where the $10,000 fine can come from.

[GTR-N1]

Methinks Michael that with a thread title like this, you're going to attract a lot of "Views" relative to "Replies"

[Iron Mike]

I would never run a decat Terry, I was just wondering because I was having this conversation with a mate and he told me the fine was in the vicinity of 10k which I found hard to believe :I

[mad082]

The maximum fine is 22 penalty units, where 1 penalty unit is $1000

[Iron Mike]

Holy @#$*, I don't know why people have them and run the risk of copping a 22k fine

[starwarz]

^because race car

[sydking]

  On 21/10/2012 at 12:57 PM, Iron Mike said:

Holy @#$*, I don't know why people have them and run the risk of copping a 22k fine

I have never heard of anyone getting that sort of fine, Its not somethign that you can test really test for on the raod, Nor can your avg joe cop.

though if you rocked up to EPA with a decat you deserve the full ammount, Keep a stock cat on hand.

its not like your 100 cell cat will pass emmisions anyway.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

  On 23/10/2012 at 1:32 AM, sydking said:

I have never heard of anyone getting that sort of fine, Its not somethign that you can test really test for on the raod, Nor can your avg joe cop.

though if you rocked up to EPA with a decat you deserve the full ammount, Keep a stock cat on hand.

its not like your 100 cell cat will pass emmisions anyway.

^ this

all rumours, who do you know personally that has been fined? no one.

[YRL05S]

In NSW a penalty unit is $110, not $1000.

CRIMES (SENTENCING PROCEDURE) ACT 1999 - SECT 17

Penalty units

17 Penalty units

Unless the contrary intention appears, a reference in any Act or statutory rule to a number of penalty units (whether fractional or whole) is taken to be a reference to an amount of money equal to the amount obtained by multiplying $110 by that number of penalty units.