Emmisions inspection FAIL
10-13-2009, 10:58 PM
#11
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Yes. The sniff test cares only about the cats.
If all you have is the OBD-II test, you can get an emissions tune for just about everything. Excluding an O/R mid-pipe of course. People have passed with everything else though.
10-14-2009, 08:54 AM
#15
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Heres a easy way around it. In Illinois emissions is based on population. I couldn't believe it either till some of the people on this site said they live here and dont have to do emission testing. So with a little research you might be able to. Go to your emissions website and see if there is any county's or town small enough that are exempt. If there is and not too far away drive there,go to local post office and buy a P.O. box. Then register your plates to the P.O.box. Go back to emission website change address of plates to P.O.box and you are now exempt from emissions. Its hillarious, Good luck, theres always a loop hole.
10-14-2009, 12:07 PM
#16
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Heres a easy way around it. In Illinois emissions is based on population. I couldn't believe it either till some of the people on this site said they live here and dont have to do emission testing. So with a little research you might be able to. Go to your emissions website and see if there is any county's or town small enough that are exempt. If there is and not too far away drive there,go to local post office and buy a P.O. box. Then register your plates to the P.O.box. Go back to emission website change address of plates to P.O.box and you are now exempt from emissions. Its hillarious, Good luck, theres always a loop hole.
Some states have filled in that loop hole. Texas is one of them. Luckily here, only certain counties have emissions.
10-14-2009, 12:10 PM
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An emissions tune is where all sensors are turned on and everything is working properly to not set a CEL. An O/R pipe will kill any chance of having an emissions tune since the O2's will throw a code pretty quickly. You need cats for an emissions tune to do any good.
So those who need to do emissions and have O/R will need to swap.
10-14-2009, 12:12 PM
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10-14-2009, 12:34 PM
#19
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Brenspeed helped me out as well. However, I'm still not sure I would pass a sniff test because we worked around it. Fortunately we don't have those yet....when you have to pass the sniff test it's a whole new ballgame.
10-14-2009, 12:50 PM
#20
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Heres a easy way around it. In Illinois emissions is based on population. I couldn't believe it either till some of the people on this site said they live here and dont have to do emission testing. So with a little research you might be able to. Go to your emissions website and see if there is any county's or town small enough that are exempt. If there is and not too far away drive there,go to local post office and buy a P.O. box. Then register your plates to the P.O.box. Go back to emission website change address of plates to P.O.box and you are now exempt from emissions. Its hillarious, Good luck, theres always a loop hole.
Can't register a car to a po box in PA. States catch onto the loop holes eventually.