most should these days. i believe an elm327 with the proper app will show monitor status
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2012 Chevrolet Caprice PPV
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So glad I've never had to deal with emissions testing.
Obd mx is fairly cheap and has an app that will say when you're ready.
You in OR, as WA got rid of emissions a couple of years ago. Almost registered some of my junk up there a few times. 2 of my cars have to be tested yearly. Even my old diesel here that never had emissions equipment...
You in OR, as WA got rid of emissions a couple of years ago. Almost registered some of my junk up there a few times. 2 of my cars have to be tested yearly. Even my old diesel here that never had emissions equipment...
Yeah Phoenix has some confusing testing rules, I haven't sorted though it well enough. But it seems they test back to 66
You need a blue driver
What's a blue driver?
Phx gets no testing for first 5 or 7 years don't remember. Then every 2 after that for OBD2 cars. The test is readiness and no check engine... somewhere between 80 and OBD2 you have to run the rollers. Not sure the breakpoint. They do rollers back to 67. 66 is pre emissions. My 80 Jimmy and 67 firebird had yearly. My 2003 f350 7.3 is yearly. My 09 get and our old 05 ram were 2 years
Phx was also the last place that tested motorcycles.. stopped that about 7 years ago.
Phx was also the last place that tested motorcycles.. stopped that about 7 years ago.
Yeah I remember when Phoenix starting tested Motorcycles, they would fail them on visual if the tail pipes were sooty. Which was way beyond Kommiefornia at the time in the 80's
Honestly at this point it's just a money grab. Been plenty of studies showing the brakes and tires leave more pollution than the engines. Even the super green WA state stopped their program a couple of years back.
OBD3 will stop all testing for those cars. If the car has a malfunction it will report it to the state and you will get a notice to repair in the mail. And then when all the cars are electric then ...............
It’s a Bluetooth scantool. Uses app on your phone and it’s awesome. Will show emissions readiness and live data. Read and clear codes etc…I love it
Aka elm327 googe it
In general these are 2 different things (BlueDriver may be using the ELM chip -who knows). An Elm327 tool can be purchased for $15 (there are bluetooth, USB and serial versions), plus an app (free to cheap), and lets you read all data from the PCM. BlueDriver is $120 but includes the adapter and the app. It lets you do all of the same things with the PCM, but also lets you read ABS, airbag, etc.
You can easily read emissions readiness with the Torque App, as shown below. The "pro" version used to be $5, not sure if it still is. I don't know if the "lite" version does the emissions tests. For anybody working on an OBDII vehicle, why would you not spend $20 for a scanner/logger/code reader/reset tool?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torque&hl=en_US&gl=US&pli=1
I run torque on my ls power rigs, makes life easy to get info on the fly.
Well it turns out my cheap little code scanner does tell me drive cycle readiness. I just had to know where to look.
Still not there yet, but I haven't actually tried to do the steps of the drive test. Just been driving around like normal.
Still not there yet, but I haven't actually tried to do the steps of the drive test. Just been driving around like normal.
Good news: After 3 drive cycles, I got the EVAP to clear.
Only the O2S is still not ready, but that's OK because I'm allowed 1 unready monitor, as long as it's not the EVAP monitor.
Bad news: the DEQ and DMV were both closed by the time I finished up today. Emissions and plates will have to wait for next week, so I won't be taking it to an unseasonably warm and dry Cars and Coffee tomorrow.
Only the O2S is still not ready, but that's OK because I'm allowed 1 unready monitor, as long as it's not the EVAP monitor.
Bad news: the DEQ and DMV were both closed by the time I finished up today. Emissions and plates will have to wait for next week, so I won't be taking it to an unseasonably warm and dry Cars and Coffee tomorrow.
That's funny, here in California the only one you're allowed is evap.
Washington state completely canceled their testing 4 years ago. The amount of variability between states regarding emissions testing makes me almost feel like it's a bureaucratic money making song and dance scheme that doesn't actually do much to reduce pollution at this point.
But that's just me
You might be on to something.
When i had my 1st CA smog repair license, and worked at a licensed repair shop, all the testing was done by company Hamilton. We would check set timing do a lean air fuel adjustment, check the vac lines scope it for distributor wear and spark plug pattern. When all was good to go we'd take for the $7.00 test. Bunch of minimum wage, maybe high school gads, would inspect then sniff the car, @ 3rd would fail. I would then head back to the shop, give the car sun bath for an hour or two, go back for the $4.00 retest and it would pass. by 1982 the state canceled Hamilton's testing contract for scamming people and failing cars that passed. Then we ended up with independent test facilities. Many of them cheated many customer as well, but the BAR only had 1 fine, for cheaters and it's $25k.
