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Re: Puzzling failure on emissions test - 1990 200TQ



make sure they entered the right number of cylinders......I'm not sure if it
had anything to do with it, but I got rejected in MA one time, and I noticed on
the
printout the guy had entered 4cyl....went back the next day and they entered
5cyl
and it passed....

Tom Leveckis
'91 90Q20V



Peter Berrevoets wrote:

> Drat - something's not quite right. Had my baby tested for bad breath today
> and she came up wanting...
>
>                         IDLE            2500 RPM
>                 Limit           Reading Reading
> HC ppm    200           209             42
> CO %         1          1.8             0.18
>
> Hope that lines up the way it should.
>
> Ambient Temp ~24 degrees C  - Relative humidity ~ 80%
> New air filter ~1000km, new plugs (Bosch Silver), new fuel filter, new
> injectors. Any ideas? Timing Belt? Dirty air mass sensor? The previous owner
> didn't have any record of the last timing belt change and at 230,000km I'm a
> little nervous.
>
> Peter
> 1990 200TQ 10V - 5spd
> with bad breath!