emissions debacle (need a new tranny)

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Those are horror stories of untrained monkeys....here in Delaware you remain
in your vehicle with the sniffer inserted into tail pipe,car in park or
neutral with e-brake on and they tell you  to rev it to 2500rpm, 8-10
seconds and your done , The closest they come to getting in your car is
kneeling and plugging OBDII under dash....I remember in Colorado it was the
same way back in 91'..

On 4/14/07, Shawn Manny <shawn.manny at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> wow...not a quattro story but an emissions screw up non the less. We (my
> wife and I) went to get her Saab 9000 emission tested, they went to pull
> it
> on the rollers as a rear drive car..I pounded on the glass booth windows
> shouting "its front wheel drive!!" the told me not to pound on the
> glass...then they couldn't figure out the reverse lock out ring, I yet
> again
> stepped out to tell them and they basically said "get back in the booth we
> know what were doing"..well the neanderthal women "running" the test
> couldn't drive stick to save her life and the dyno kept saying
> "insufficient
> power"...finally she/he/it gave up and got the manager who breezed through
> the test. As we got in the car to leave, the shemale came to the window
> and
> told me "somethings wrong with your car, you need to get new tires, an
> alignment or something"..I replied "the tires are new, it just had an
> alignment and I know the car is fine, lets go hunny (looking at my
> wife)"..to this the creature replied "whatever daddy says"..at this point
> I
> almost jumped out of the car and beat her back to her appropriate time
> period...luckily my wife lacks the temper I do and drove off before I got
> out. I hate emission testing and will only take my car to the one in the
> ritzy part of town where they see ferrari's etc as they know how to drive
> a
> stick and they also know what all wheel drive is. I cant wait for this
> antiquated BS sytem to go away.....
> *steps off my soap box*
> Shawn
>
>
> On 4/14/07, Robert Myers <bob at chips-ur-s.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Wow.  :-(  Stories like this make me very happy that WV does not do
> > sniff testing.
> >
> > At 12:24 PM 4/14/2007, Jeremiah Curry wrote:
> > >About three weeks ago I took my 1991 200 20v in to have the yearly
> > emissions
> > >done.  As was waiting for the them to finish, I looked out the window
> and
> > >they had my car with the front tires on the dyno and the back tires
> > chocked
> > >and they had just started it and were trying to measure the emissions
> at
> > >speed.  I yelled at the lady in the office "what is he doing?, my car
> is
> > All
> > >Wheel drive"  She shrugged and said "I don't know ask him" so I ran
> into
> > the
> > >shop where he was still revving the engine in first gear trying to
> figure
> > >out why the car was hopping and feeling weird.  Once I told him it was
> > all
> > >wheel drive he was like "oh really, I looked for the rear drivelines
> and
> > >couldn't see them.  I mentioned that it said quattro on the grill and
> in
> > the
> > >model name on the paperwork and he said "sorry"
> > >
> > >Long Story short, they went to pull the car out of the stall and it was
> > >bucking and making horrible noise.  I talked to their management and
> they
> > >rented me a car (Chevy Equinox, then Chevy HHR) and towed my car to my
> > >mechanic.  He has had the car for three weeks. He replaced the rear
> diff
> > and
> > >cv joints and said it was much improved, but there was still something
> > >wrong.  He thinks it is the transmission and is trying to find one.
> > >
> > >Moral of the story, never assume and be sure to mention that your car
> is
> > >all-wheel drive to the monkey-boy at the emissions shop.  I hear of
> > another
> > >place in town that did the same thing, but instead of chocking the
> wheels
> > >they just chained the car, and it went through the wall.
> > >
> > >Jeremiah
> > >
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