Passing inspection
12-06-2004, 02:23 PM
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Passing inspection
the guy from pep boys told me that my car wont pass emissons becuase of heavy carbon build up or somthing. He said it would cost about 200 including the inspection to fix this. Help quick i gotta go pick up my car soon. Can i fix this myself or what???
12-06-2004, 02:28 PM
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Do you have any mods to the exhaust system? Y-pipe etc?
Where is the carbon buildup that he is talking about? Carbon builds up in all pipes along the exhaust path.
Have you ever failed inspection before?
Where is the carbon buildup that he is talking about? Carbon builds up in all pipes along the exhaust path.
Have you ever failed inspection before?
Originally Posted by exit10
the guy from pep boys told me that my car wont pass emissons becuase of heavy carbon build up or somthing. He said it would cost about 200 including the inspection to fix this. Help quick i gotta go pick up my car soon. Can i fix this myself or what???
12-06-2004, 02:29 PM
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he said its in the exhaust. i dont think i am going to pay that its way too expensive 230 for the full job. i have a drop in filter thats all. no this is the 4th day i had the car. yet as the days go by i find out more and more wrong with it
12-06-2004, 07:55 PM
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pep boys is a big neg my friend dropped his audi there and they ****ed it up big time and made him pay for it they are mental retards they told him he needed a new axle and broke his hub installing it.
12-06-2004, 09:06 PM
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yep, get someone else to inspect first.
if you get carbon build up problem again, run a bottle of seafoam in the gas tank and drive all of it off ( as much off as possible). you'll smoke the neighborhood and spit out all the carbon buildups. another thing is possibly your catalytic converter may need replacement. get that checked.
seafoam is about 6 dollars each
if you get carbon build up problem again, run a bottle of seafoam in the gas tank and drive all of it off ( as much off as possible). you'll smoke the neighborhood and spit out all the carbon buildups. another thing is possibly your catalytic converter may need replacement. get that checked.
seafoam is about 6 dollars each
12-07-2004, 06:24 AM
#9
Originally Posted by Igobuk
Just take it to somewhere like the Bronx or Brooklyn and give the guy doing the inspection some lunch money. 
A happy mechanic makes customers happy, the car will pass.
A happy mechanic makes customers happy, the car will pass.
hahaha.... i love NY.....
and yea.. you would be amazed at what well fed mechaninc would do... whenever i go. i get the guys at the shop some food.. and come out with **** load of work hehehe...
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