emissions where you live
lucskywalker
Wagonist
didnt really know where to place this topic but its about the motor after all so here it is 
so what is the emissions like where your from, seems to come up alot and its pretty interesting what places do what type of tests. and name your town/city seems like all states vary from city to city.
here in chicago as of jan 1 07' the test changed from all cars manditory sniff/dyno and scanner test to only 96 and up obd2 auto's and all they do is plug in the scanner to see if the auto has a completed drive cycle with no check engine light.
kinda strange since chicago has its share of pollution and a ton of rusted beaters driving around :roll: but then again im not complaining at all since i moved here from south florida where there was no kind of emissions test at all! i had moved here only 5 month's before the switch and the del sol i had was never going to pass the test!
so what is the emissions like where your from, seems to come up alot and its pretty interesting what places do what type of tests. and name your town/city seems like all states vary from city to city.
here in chicago as of jan 1 07' the test changed from all cars manditory sniff/dyno and scanner test to only 96 and up obd2 auto's and all they do is plug in the scanner to see if the auto has a completed drive cycle with no check engine light.
kinda strange since chicago has its share of pollution and a ton of rusted beaters driving around :roll: but then again im not complaining at all since i moved here from south florida where there was no kind of emissions test at all!
i had moved here only 5 month's before the switch and the del sol i had was never going to pass the test!
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so, when i feel recovered from that, i can give you an
answer, maybe ...cough cough spit
: )
Was handy when I had my 91 FWD wagon. For the life of me, I could NOT get it to pass Massachusetts emissions. NOX was too high, or something like that. So when I moved to Maine, the first thing I did was register the car here. It aced inspection and was street legal again.
If you're in one of those counties and your car is four years old, you have to get it tested every two years. OBD2 can usually get by with just a plug in, non OBD2 cars get the "treadmill" test. Cars that are all wheel drive get an idle test.
The only type of inspection they have in my area... A VIN verification if you're wanting an ohio title for an out of state car, a safety inspection if you're self-assembleing, and a safety inspection to register a rebuilt salvage title.
Getting over pretty easy if you ask me.
The really screwy part is that the state, the police, the insurance computers are all linked. You can have a scenario where You don't renew a registration, insurance cancels, blahblahblah.
Afew years ago I got pulled over and informed that I was driving with a suspended license...huh?? The clutch failed in my old truck, so I parked it and canceled the insurance, started driving another INSURED car. Insurance (by law) notified state of cancellation, state suspends license. Brilliant, huh? :evil:
yea a bunch of BS for shure, in florida the computers are linked and they got me 3 times with the whole suspended thing.
1st one i changed insurance companys, and funny i drove 2 years on a suspened license on that one.
the next like you i parked a car and wammo another sus fine. the third was i sold a car and bought a different one, same tags/plates on the new car but they did it again! :evil: i still dont really know how to do it the right way in the sunshine state. well it doesnt matter any more i got the hell outta there!
I will say that it seems to work better than it did in its infancy- maybe they've worked out some of the bugs?
It was a struggle for many insurance companies to get on board, let alone the registration and license people. The insurance company I work for had very few problems. There were a couple times at the begining where it wouldn't transmit to the state until the next morning but a slight delay is better than nothing. GA has changed a few things with it since it stared. Right about the same time we stopped writing SR-22's there, just too complicated I guess.
Texas is actually doing a pilot program very similar to Georgia right now. I think it's supposed to go statewide later this year.
We have a noise limit of 95db though