dieseldonato
Veteran Member
Just to clarify, there is no diesel emissions in PA. The regular inspection your supposed to verify all emission compliance devices are there.
What does this mean? They inspect for the hardware? Check readiness in the ECU? Neither?Just to clarify, there is no diesel emissions in PA. The regular inspection your supposed to verify all emission compliance devices are there.
Depends on the area how hard inspectors are about that stuff, it has to be there but we're not required to check for function. Visual only. Pretty rural where I live, so no one worries if certain things fell off. Just don't be fogging out the parking lot when you show up and everything will be good.I just know of a bunch of folks who have deleted CR cars in PA and they wouldn't pass a visual inspection, if the inspector knows what he's looking at.
Funny side story: When MA started checking ECUs I got flagged because I had a Euro base tune in my ALH that didn't show EGR readiness. And I had a race pipe on it. I had to go for a secondary inspection, so I put the EGR back on, but since I have a PD150 manifold it also didn't have an EGR cooler. I was worried that the inspector would catch this. When I took the car I was asked to go to the waiting room at the station. The inspector came in a few minutes later and I thought, "now I'm in trouble." The inspector asked "Is this a 4 cylinder?" I need not have worried.
Yeah, the OP situation has no resolution without reversing the mods made...the seller got out of a problem I'd say. It won't pass visual no matter what and unless he goes back to the tune provider and pays to get the readiness modified (visual aside) he's not going anywhere in NY.Well, OP is in NY, where car needs to pass both visual and OBD emissions until the car is 25 years old.
I'm curious about the SAI readiness as well. Makes no sense, but OP might have been told that by the mech who misspoke?
"yes" but also no, it is just updated software to check the flash count on ECU's. given our cars have been reflashed by VW already because of dieselgate you could easily dismiss a claim for failure on that by pointing fingers back at dieselgateRumor has it that they will be able to detect if a computer has been reprogrammed to force readiness
yes one of which is more than likely a particle meter to sniff out diesel particulates in your exhaust. they will know if your car is deleted (or even has a faulty DPF!), this isnt a whiteboard test anymore people!NY is currently rolling out new inspection machines and software
Wanna sell that downpipe???Well I was finally able to get the Jetta inspected this week... and it passed too!
I ended up getting the DPF replaced by a local VW dealer free of charge as it was still under TDI warranty.
When I bought the car I looked up the VIN with VW so I knew that it had TDI extended warranty for another 2k miles or until September of this year. I didn't think they would accept it though because the car had obviously been modified.
Sure enough, they said they would replace the DPF and EGR filter at no cost to me. Since then it has been running great and seems to be doing regens normally.
Thanks again everyone for all of the information and tips you have shared. This has been one hell of a project but it seems to be finished now.