help me pass aircare!

[dswalterwi at earthlink.net (Don Walter)]

High HC and NOX indicates that your Catalytic Converter is shot.  Your Aircare facility
has probably updated their testing procedure that checks the functionality of it
and that is why you are failing this year.  I had the same problem a few years ago
and the smae problem with a car I just bought.  I got a Cat for TT and all was good
again.  The second car I haven't messed with as I am selling it any ways.

Don

-----Original Message-----
From: marc_scirocco Qu?bec <marc_scirocco@sympatico.ca>
Sent: Dec 3, 2003 12:35 AM
To: vince@performancecarstereo.com, scirocco list <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Subject: RE: help me pass aircare!

To pass aircare, I used to install a new airfilter, get a full tank of the
ethanol mix sold at mohawk, then drive back and forth like a madman on hwy1
from Vancouver to Horseshoe Bay.

It also needs to fire on all four cylinders. Check your plugs, plug wires,
distributor cap/rotor.

Adjust your timing to stock specification.

To properly adjust your mixture, you need a gas analyser. Unless you played
with it over the year, this should not need adjustment.

Cheers, and good luck!

Marc
'83 Scirocco
'97 A4 Quattro

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]De la part de Vince
> Envoy? : mercredi 3 d?cembre 2003 00:23
> ? : scirocco list
> Objet : help me pass aircare!
>
>
> Phew, what a long day. I finally pimped enough hoes and got the
> rocco goin'
> again. I gave it an oil change/tune up and took it through aircare. First
> they wouldn't test it because my ebrake doesn't work or rather is
> missing. I
> had to just screw down an A2 lever and hose-clamp the arm to the
> cables  so
> they wouldn't notice. So they tested it and it failed miserably!
> doh. I was
> really surprised because it passed by a large margin last year.
>
> 1.7L 8V w/ CIS Basic no O2
>
> Heres the results:
>
>
> ----------max-------mycar-----pass/fail
>
> driving
>
> HC-------301--------125-------pass
> CO-------2.29-------0.91------pass
> NOX------3220-------3377------fail
>
> idle
>
> HC-------412--------468-------fail
> CO-------4.63-------8.78------fail
>
>
> My idle was a little low (750ish), a mechanic friend said to turn
> that up to
> 1000 for aircare. He also said to lean out the mixture and pull
> back timing
> a bit, and go through again and it should pass. I raised the idle and was
> gonna go back through but they were just closed!
>
> Aircare is $24 each time and insurance is $30/day so I can only give this
> one more chance - I'm tapped.
>
> So after 8 hours and $1500, still no plates, argh.  Here's a pic
> to show the
> action:
>
> http://www.performancecarstereo.com/boxpics/atwork.jpg
>
> Any insights?
>
> Vince
>
>
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Don
1984 1.8 8V Pewter Scirocco (sold years ago)
1986 2L 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (under repair)
1986 1.8 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (for sale)
1986 1.8 16V Black Scirocco (my new ride)