Abscate
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Location: NYC/Upstate/ROW
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 Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 12:22 am Post subject: Re: Passed Smog, happy |
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| levi wrote: |
Same here.
1.8t reversed Andrew Flint creation.
Here in Vegas if the vehicle is over 25 years then it's Classic Plates time, and no smog.
BUT, about a week ago I went down to re-tag and I wrote down the wrong number from the odometer. 
She said I had more miles than this last year, (simple error on my part. I offered to go outside with someone to confirm the odometer, but No! So I'm DQd from the classic plates, have to go regular and that meant smog.
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Ouch. Reminds me of going to Germany and forgetting to sign my passport. An expensive mistake for a pen stroke
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SyncroHead 
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Joined: May 23, 2005
Posts: 1141
Location: Northern Nevada
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| Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 10:17 pm Post subject: Re: Passed Smog, happy |
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I had my 1989 checked in CALIFORNIA a few weeks ago after not having it on the road for about 5 years. The engine is a stock 2.1L waterboxer of unknown miles. Van has about 212K miles but engine was replaced by previous owner with a used engine from another van.
Passed easily! Yay!
I asked about a Pre-test because it has been so long since a test on this vehicle and didn't want it flagged as failing or "Gross Polluter" . They said they could do this while not communicating to the CA DMV computers, but the price was the same, less the state certificate fee. Discouraging the idea of a pre-test, they explained that in either case of failure it was not a big deal. Just meant that you get it repaired and re-tested. No going to a "referee station" or anything like that. I opted to just go for a regular test and skip the pre-test.
I told the tech that I'd heard stories that the "tank pressure test" (AKA "Evap Test) could damage seals and asked if he is supposed to do it or not. He said definitely should NOT do this test and thought shops doing this test would be in the small, uninformed minority. Said the current equipment is not even able do this if he wanted to. Also, says they are not supposed do the gas cap sealing test on these vehicles either. (I had my '97 fail the gas cap test many years ago, so this time I had 3 spare gas caps with me, just in case.)
My results:
15 MPH
CO2: 15.5% (no limits)
O2: 0.0% (no limits)
HC: 37 PPM (average test is 36 PPM, Max limit is 122 PPM)
CO: 0.07 (average test is 0.12%, Max limit is 0.72%)
NO: 24 PPM (average test is 348 PPM, Max limit is 1,010 PPM)
25 MPH
CO2: 15.4% (no limits)
O2: 0.0% (no limits)
HC: 38 PPM (average test is 26 PPM, Max limit is 102 PPM)
CO: 0.05 (average test is 0.10%, Max limit is 0.91%)
NO: 82 PPM (average test is 294 PPM, Max limit is 870 PPM)
Happy that it passed by wide margins. 
Jim Davis
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| sphet wrote: |
| I have *no* idea what the previous owner carried in his Westy... angry donkeys? |
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