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Mar 5, 2010 | 11:56 AM

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Sly Raskal

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The only car in stock form that comes to mind that suffers from sub-93 octane gas is the MS6.

I recall the Impreza STI haveing the same problems.

Mar 5, 2010 | 12:35 PM

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Not that they'd sell fun cars in California anyway.

There's like 4 million Priuses, 2 million Insights and Awnuld has the five Hummers. That's it.

Mar 5, 2010 | 12:44 PM

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^ - Yeah, the S6 is a boring ass car to drive around. Fucking California.

Mar 5, 2010 | 12:49 PM

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They didn't sell it there. It's a decadent capitalist's machine.

Mar 5, 2010 | 02:08 PM

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They didn't sell it there. It's a decadent capitalist's machine.

You're saying they didn't sell the S6 in California???

Mar 5, 2010 | 02:14 PM

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I haven't run a front plate for 15 years. Got stopped once in the Bay Area.

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So glad I don't live in SoCal. After driving around the freeways for a day I wanted to shoot somebody and I got a fix-it ticket for no front plate. I think this has a lot to do with how much smog is in the air in LA. Still, there's more to it if your friend didn't pass smog if he just has a BOV (unless it has a dump), intake and exhaust, with cats especially. I would think he would know enough at least to get CARB-approved parts.

its the law and you may not like it but you live here and you are required to follow it

I owned my Integra and drove it around daily, 15,000 miles a year without a front plate for almost two years all around the Bay Area and never got a ticket for it.... but in ONE day on LA streets and I get popped for it

Mar 5, 2010 | 02:17 PM

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^ - Was that recently? I used to not have a front plate because it was never enforced. No one I went to high school was ever stopped for it. It was the same way up until about 2007 when I got a ticket (got it thrown out though). Now I hear about more and more front plate tickets being issued.

Mar 5, 2010 | 05:34 PM

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You're saying they didn't sell the S6 in California???

What do y'all do on other websites where they don't use red text everywhere?

Mar 5, 2010 | 08:00 PM

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almost all new cars are tuned for 91 octane anyway so there's no difference for almost all cars between 91 vs. 93 octane when the car recommends 91, at least from what I've read.

The only car in stock form that comes to mind that suffers from sub-93 octane gas is the MS6. And on a side note, for some reason I haven't seen any of those 91 octane complaints concerning the MS3, considering that they use the same DISI 2.3T

Its not just the octane. California requires its own special blends of fuel which adds to the cost and leaves you stuck with 10% ethanol in every gallon sold there...

Mar 5, 2010 | 08:03 PM

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What do y'all do on other websites where they don't use red text everywhere?

Mar 5, 2010 | 08:47 PM

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^ - Was that recently? I used to not have a front plate because it was never enforced. No one I went to high school was ever stopped for it. It was the same way up until about 2007 when I got a ticket (got it thrown out though). Now I hear about more and more front plate tickets being issued.

I'm up to three now, thank you Beverly Hills Parking Enforcement!

Mar 5, 2010 | 09:29 PM

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Its not just the octane. California requires its own special blends of fuel which adds to the cost and leaves you stuck with 10% ethanol in every gallon sold there...

*psst* We do too.

Mar 6, 2010 | 01:04 AM

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I'm up to three now, thank you Beverly Hills Parking Enforcement!

Car and Driver had a blip about so cal ticketing for front plates about 10 years ago. It never made its ways north (same with that random smog check crap).

Mar 6, 2010 | 03:03 AM

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Car and Driver had a blip about so cal ticketing for front plates about 10 years ago. It never made its ways north (same with that random smog check crap).

In south Orange County, there could care dittily-squat about these things...