Safety testing in Utah

[sawtooth4x4]

Hey just a couple questions for you Utahans

So my questions:

My range rover is missing the CATs. Its registered in Montana and I can keep it that way since the co-owner (my mother) lives there. Its lifted and on 31" tires currently, no mud flaps. I have enough space to go with 33" tires, but I'm up in North Dakota and haven't seen anywhere I would need something bigger. So i'm saving my pennies until i get out of this ugly ass place.

If I register my cars there what will they be looking for? I removed the sway bar from the Range Rover and built a winch tray into the stock front bumper. I'll flunk emissions probably. What counties test for emissions? Are HID headlight bulbs going to flunk me?

I was thinking about living up in Layton even though the job would be in Sandy. I have a good friend who lives up there. Our families hang-out together everytime we head down there. I like the area as well. A lot less people.

I have a stock BMW 525 sport as well. Nothing has been done to it. i think it'll pass with flying colors. I'll need new tires by the end of summer anyway.

 

[Kevin B.]

You'll get dinged for rear mud flaps for sure, and bored cops will pull you over for missing them, too. I don't see anything else glaring that would make you fail safety. Why won't it pass emissions?

 

[sawtooth4x4]

no catalytic converters. they imploded and were removed last year.

 

[Bear T]

Emissions are required by all counties on the wasatch front. and you will fail without cats. Also, the HID's are not legal unless factory. Unfortunately you'll have to register it in the county you live in. If you have dual residency I would keep it registered in MT. Only problem is that if you live here for more than six month, you're "supposed" to get it registered here.

Best way to know for sure is to just swing in to the local IM/safety shop and say "hey, I just moved here and want to know what needs to be done to meet local standards" but don't let them officially test it because once its in the system as a fail, you have to fix it to pass.

 

[sawtooth4x4]

thanks. I have yet to be pulled over for mud flaps in UT yet. I've been there a number of times as it is. No one has noticed the HID's yet. They actually are not very glaring.

 

[sawtooth4x4]

How do they do emissions testing? do they have a rolling dyno? My Range Rover is EPA exempt from dyno testing, it has a big sticker under the hood stating so. I guess its because its full-time 4x4

 

[skeptic]

Emissions testing, at least in Davis county, isn't too bad. They are supposed to do a visual check, but every place I've ever gone to just does a tail-pipe sniffer test at idle and 2k rpms. Pretty much if your car runs clean, you pass. However, no cat means you will likely fail. Safety inspections seem more involved, and one of the biggies here is tires. If they stick out more than just a tiny bit you may have a hard time finding a place to pass you. Throwing on some cheap mud flaps will generally get you by, but I had places that would not pass me even with mud flaps because the tires in my old XJ stuck out about an inch past the fenders. Having a set of "safety inspection" tires to swap on once a year is an easy enough way around it, and one place even suggested I do this then come back and they'd pass me. I'd probably complain a bit more about how strict they are on tires (and being pulled over twice for it), but between my wife and I we go through roughly 1 replaced windshield a year with lots of chips in between.

 

[sawtooth4x4]

yeah, my windshield in my Range Rover cost $1100 last time to replace. luckily i have a $100 deductible on that. Its heated and I hate truckers that don't clean the gravel off their dump trucks.