Failed emmisions

[Pat Korach]

StaticNiche

Some states like Washington Emission testing has to have the Idle at no more
than 1000 RPMs
otherwise they will not pass your car.

What I did with my 89 200 TQ in April was to add a quart of fluid that is
supposed to guarantee
that you pass emissions or your money back.  After adding drive the car unil
your tank
is empty then refill  with gas and go in for the emissions test.  The fluid is
supposed to clean your
engine of all contaminants  including your injectors.  I got the stuff at Shucks
Auto and I don't
know how much it helped but my emissions were at: cruise HC: 0004, CO: 00.03 and
at
idle HC: 0005 and CO: 00.00.  These figures are only slightly lower that 2 years
ago but I do think
it helped alittle.  I used it not because my car failed before but have had
other cars fail the test
and am paranoid that my Audi would fail.  You might want to try it is everything
else fails.

Pat Korach
Kirkland, WA

StaticNiche_Quattro wrote:

> Set your idle speed to 2500 for the day of the test.  Problem solved.  ;-)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > So, my trusty 200 let me down, went to go get inspected, and the car
> failed on
> > emissions!
> >
> > Here are the readings:
> >
> > Pollutant       Reading         Limit
> > --------- ------- -----
> > HC PPM Idle     393             220 <-------FAIL
> > HC PPM 2500     105             220
> > CO% Idle        0.61            1.2
> > CO% 2500        0.60            1.2
> >
> > The car:
> > --------
> > - 1991 200 20V
> > - 133478 miles
> > - New O2 sensor about 2 years ago (generic 3 wire).
> > - New distributor and cap ~1 year ago.
> > - No idea how old wires are.
> > - No idea how old plugs are.  But pulled last night.  Correct plugs (Bosch
> > F5DPOR), looked good.  Cleaned.  Gap on 4 of them was out of spec (wide),
> tried
> > to close up a bit.  Re-installed.  Car started right up.  Now, when
> reinstalling
> > the #5 plug, the wire pulled out of the boot!  I re-installed, and
> everything
> > seems ok, but is that an indication my wires may be shot?
> > - K&N Air filter
> > - Lehmen chip (Anderson)
> > - Full Stebro exhaust (including two hi-flow cats)
> >
> > What do you guys think?
> >
> > I have 60 days to fix before I need to get a re-test. New plugs?  New O2
> sensor?
> > Clean air filter?  I'm just not sure what causes hi HC's at idle, while at
> > 2500rpm everyhting is fine.
> >
> > Thanks much!
> >
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