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Emissions failure
Oh, I didn't mean I had a problem with your method to pass, I just
absolutely hate E-Testing, it has just totally sucked any small joy I might
dare to expect from my birthday. I may just have a nervous breakdown next
year, as it stands, I probably need therapy for the damage it's done. :)
Cathy
Anti-E-Test-ite
CathyOn 12:01:35 pm 04/11/06 "David Brown" <sharpshooter33@adelphia.net>
wrote:
> Don't know why unhooking the O2 worked other than it leaned my engine
> out and it passed the test. My O2 did die a year after the last
> test, so maybe it was going bad anyway. Had a buddy do it to his
> also and get thru the test here in Ohio.
>
> Glad the testing it gone.
>
> 8-)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "C Boyko" <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
> To: "David Brown" <sharpshooter33@adelphia.net>
> Cc: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 7:59 AM
> Subject: Re: Emissions failure
>
>
> > On 2:17:55 am 04/11/06 "David Brown" <sharpshooter33@adelphia.net>
> >> wrote: I used to pull the plug on my O2 sensor and it would run
> >> lean for the test and pass. If I ran it thru with the O2 hooked
> >> up I got rejected every time.
> >> Glad we don't have to do that political B.S. anymore in Ohio.
> >>
> >> Somebody got rich on those check stations.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Well, don't get me started. But if they test for NOX, a lean
> > condition will
> > run NOX levels up, and uber lean may also give high HC if it's so
> > lean that
> > the mix can't all burn.
> > Here, they have changed things, so anything 88 and newer runs the
> > test forever, but the newest cars (five year olds and younger)
> > don't test at all. Pisses me off because my only hope of playing
> > with big displacement is
> > an 88, and so is the Cabby. The "reason" is that those are the
> > cars that fail most often, so why did they leave the light diesels
> > in the programme? They never fail. (There was one failed dsl test
> > in the year we first tested
> > the POS, and you guessed it, the POS failed (no filler cap), so
> > there you go) And they don't even get sniffed. You essentially pay
> > $37.50 for them to
> > test your filler cap and give you the paperwork.
> >
> > Yeah, and don't even ask me about the Cabby's last test, the car
> > actually didn't fail it's first attempt because it died on the
> > dyno. That car just plain hates me. It's been running like a champ
> > ever since the ETest was over.
> >
> > Cathy, glad the headache only has one more ETest to do, ever.
> >
> >
> >
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