Non-Cat MK1?

[soltwede@privateI.com (Night Shadow)]

My data came from an EPA book that the Emissions places here in Colorado
use.  I had a 79, they were trying to fail me for no CAT, showed them the
sticker in the door jam (yellow, NON-CATALYST in large letters).  They
didn't believe me so broke out this book that lists every car and year and
what equipment it is supposed to have.  Only the 78 Rabbit (which I also
owned and was cat exempt) and the 79 Rocco were listed as cat exempt for
non-Cali cars.

Eric

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 Cmr446@cs.com wrote:

>  soltwede@privateI.com writes:
> 
> <<  Carl, you have hit the nail on the head here.  ONLY 78 Rabbits and 79
>  Sciroccos were cat exempt. >>
> 
>    That's possible, but Bently's 75/79 Rabbit/Scirocco manual claims that 
> only FI cars sold in California were equiped with a catatonic converter (Chpt 
> 3, pg 72). The only evidence I have for that is my Rabbit was an Oregon car 
> and my two Roccos were in/from Nevada, likely from California. I can't use 
> the underhood emissions decals to back this up as they're long gone.
>   My guess for that would be a  non-cat MK1 would only have the yellow decal 
> that has the vacuume hose diagram and engine data, but a cat or 
> Calfornia-based MK1 would have a second decal (rectangular, gray?) that says 
> something like "This vehicle conforms to (year) California emissions 
> regulations" or " This vehicle is equiped with a catalytic to conform 
> with...blah blah blah". 
>   What year did VW start building with 100% cats in their cars imported to 
> the states? Was this with the start of the MK2 line?
> 
> Carl
> 77rocco
> 89fox 
> 
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Eric
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