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Old 01-07-2012, 10:48 PM   #13
Clodfobble
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Originally Posted by tw
For example. Start the car. Drive it on a fixed course that includes one spot where you literally floor it. Do not turn off the engine until you are right back where you started. Repeat that at least three times. Its computer might seea a same failure all three times. But does not report some failures until you have driven it the exact same way after each new restart.
I don't have the CarPro scanner, the check engine light is currently my only method of failure reporting. Right now, the light is already on. It does not go off without being manually reset.

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Originally Posted by tw
Asked were other important questions such as how an emissions test was performed. By connecting to the computer diagnostic port? By using an exhaust pipe wand? What were numbers for each pollutant? Also important information. And did not require an ODB2.
We didn't watch it happen. It was done however your average state inspection place does it. We didn't get any numbers, we just got a piece of paper indicating that it passed the state inspection threshold (which I am told is somewhat lower than the check engine light threshold.)
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