What Happens If Your Car Fails Emission Test?

[orleans]

Is it expensive to fix the car so it passes????

[kittykatkoffeekup]

1. You should have recieved an emission report.

The station that did the test should have given you one of these. It gives detailed information that will help a repair technician diagnose the problem.

[orleans]

3. i haven't taken it in yet--i'm going tomorrow

but i just know it is gonna fail.

it's our second car and we hardly drive it because i know it's not running right. if it actually passes the emission test then i will know the test is a bunch of crap.

i'm just wondering how expensive it is to get the problem fixed.

[CanuckAmok]

4. over-inflate your tires just before the test.

that reduces the percentage of the tire driving the rollers, which means less work for the engine, and less emissions produced.

Also, if you do fail, use a couple of tanks of premium gas before you go to retest, and one of those bottles of carb/injector cleaner you pour in the tank. That'll help purge your system of contaminents, and higher octane gas burns more efficiently.

[democracyindanger]

2. Depends on what made it fail

But typically, no. Just needs adjustment.

[KitchenWitch]

5. Back when MN was doing emission tests

There was an exemption for fixing a problem if the quote was over a certain dollar amount.

You still had to get it fixed, but you had 12 months to do so.

[hickman1937]

6. Beats me. Discontinued in Michigan.

Quelle surprise!