Passed Emissions Smog but tech can't find a # on the Cat so it's failed?

TurquoiseDusk
Tue, 27 Sep 2016 02:11:58 +0000
Maintenance/Repairs

Hey all,

I have a rare 1995 AWD Supercharged Toyota Previa that I got salvaged in California.
I got a bunch of the papers saying it has passed smog every year, once it didn’t and they put in a new Cat, in California.
I got it smogged when I registered it and it passed with flying colors.
Now I have to get it smogged again, and it passed with flying colors
EXCEPT
the tech said he cant find a number on the cat and so he’s failing it. Or something.
So…
WTF. Is this a thing or is the guy scamming me?
How did it pass last year and the year before and the year before and now all of a sudden it needs a number?
Please help, the guy took $80 bucks from me, and I’m out of state helping my mother with brain cancer while my dude is trying to do all this remotely for me back in Cali. and now he’s saying it needs a whole new exhaust system just for some number? I feel like this is total crap.
Thanks for any help.

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