Emissions test for my X.

[DocVijay]

Well, I got my annual emissions test today, and my X is actually cleaner than the air we breathe around here. Neither the hydrocarbons or carbon monoxide registered they were so low. If I were to lock myself in a garage with the engine running, I'd die of starvation before CO poisoning. Anyone else have a clean experience like this. I know their equipment was fine, because my other car passed but did show up, and another dude before me failed. I guess this just proves that "hot-rodding" isn't necessarily pollution causing.

 

[Alec]

Mine is as clean as a 99 Accord Well, most of the time...

 

[Robert]

The cool thing about getting your emissions checked here in Phoenix now is if yours is OBD-II all they do is hook a scanner up to see if there are any codes. No codes and they sent me on my way. When I moved here 4 years ago they did run an exhaust test then but for the last year they don't do that on the OBD-II vehicles anymore. It took all of 5 minutes.

 

[Savage Wolf]

Maryland emissions is really annoying, they use a "treadmill" test to check your emissions through out the full speed range, looks sort of like a dyno
if I remember I'll post what the results/required is from the last time it went... need to call monday to make sure my v8 is going to be legal (oops)

 

[Crankcase]

Here in B.C.,they run a dyno test on all vehicles older than 2 years. They rev it up and down, and really floor it to simulate "real world driving". I don't think everyone guns it from every light......

 

[DocVijay]

Here in Texas they test all cars from 2-24 years old. They do two tests, one at about 2500 rpm's for 90 seconds and then at idle for 90 seconds. Thay also do a safety inspection, but that's just a formality.