Hey Scotty. Love your you tube channel. You give great advice and make me laugh. I recently bought a 2018 Tacoma and need to sell my 2003 Chevy Silverado Z71. It has just over 208k miles and probably won’t pass a smog check here in California. At least, not without replacing one of the catalytic converters. It’s probably only worth 3 or $4,000 and I don’t really want to spend that kind of money just to sell it. I just found out you can’t sell a vehicle in California (private party) without a passing smog check. Any advice? By the way, watching your videos is a main reason I bought my Tacoma. I love it. I appreciate any ideas.
- thank ya sir.
Jim from (can’t wait to move out of)California
If you're going to move out of California, could you take the chevy with you and then sell it in a different state? Also, I don't think it would cost too much to get a catalytic converter for it, though I could be wrong.
Find someone who imports rust-free western vehicles into salt-belt states. There are a lot of people in those areas who would love to buy a solid older truck that just needs a catalytic converter. (In areas with no emission testing they wouldn't even have to bother with the cat.)
Try selling it in Arizona or Utah or some surrounding state. I don’t know how laws work there or if that’s legal but I highly doubt that it would be illegal. Your other option is to maybe try and sell it to a dealer but you’re going to get less for it but then again you wouldn’t have to go to other states to sell it.
