Re: smog/oxs/gauge questions

["Bill Collins" <photo@intrex.net>]

Every VW that I have owned with an oxygen sensor has had the light.  None have been California cars.  Its probably an easy job to wire the light in parallel with the alternator light, just to satisfy the smog guy.

Bill

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Joe Doty" <rocco2nr@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 12:58:59 PDT

>Well I finally got a break today to get my car to get smogged.  I took it to 
>a guy I know in town that hooks it up to the machine to see if it will pass 
>before I fail or have to pay.  He said it would pass the emissions test, but 
>it wouldn't pass visual because the OXS light doesn't light up initially 
>when you start the car.  I told him that I had swapped (what had thought 
>was) the original guage cluster out for a different one, and the original 
>one didn't have the OXS light at all but the one I had did.
>
>Did non-CA cars not have the OXS light?  This is my theory; that the car was 
>brought in out-of-state.  He said he can't pass it until either the light 
>comes on or I get a waiver from a smog referee.  He's never seen a later VW 
>that didn't have the OXS at all.  I figure the o2 sensor has to be hooked up 
>and everything otherwise it wouldn't pass emissions.  Can anyone give me any 
>info or advice?
>
>Thanks,
>Joe
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