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Originally Posted by nathanong87
what list of charges do i currently have again? he could say it's a 1992 civic for all i care. i'm just sharing my personal experience. no bribes. no lies. i simply drove my car to emissions and told them what they asked of me.
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They could hit you for not legal road height if you can't get on the rollers. You are just lucky. He probably wanted to know if it was OBDII or not. He would have probably did a scan only if it was newer. Doesn't matter what you say at the end of the day. The car information is already in the computer when they type in your or the cars info.
OBDII in MD they plug the OBDII port into the computer verify the vehicle information and the emissions states for all the controls. Then you can get randomly selected for a roller test. I don't know anyone that has gotten to do the rollers post 1996(most of the time they don't pop the hood). If you don't have a OBDII port on a post 1996 vehicle you are basically fucked in the long term. You can't complete the test to fail it.
Pre-OBDII they are mainly concerned with the the results of the sniffer. It's much easier to pass with grey area parts and swaps. Most of techs don't know what to look for don't care cause they are doing so many in a day. As long as it blows clean they roll it off and go to the next one.