My Alternative Lifestyle Wagon

[68_427]

I love making wiring harnesses. How can I convince you that I'm not kidding.

By taking some of my money and doing it for me

[Eye of the Tiger]

By taking some of my money and doing it for me

Hmm ... it would have to be an exorbitant sum of said money. On top of my regular labor rate I will have to charge for travel expenses, hotel, meals, a standard 35% markup on materials, and dog sitting.

[Rupert]

In my experience, a VIN check is required for a car with an out of state title, but I've never heard of actually checking to see if the car was in the state or not. I don't think I had to prove that when, IIRC, I had an OR license and bought cars in WA, but I might have got a WA license early in that learning experience.

[68_427]

It snowed



Nokian Hakkaflockaflames did well again as expected

[Eye of the Tiger]

doritoes

[68_427]

No doritos.  Don't need a rod shooting out

[Eye of the Tiger]

No doritos.  Don't need a rod shooting out

Nacho cheese doritoes

[SJ_GTI]

It snowed



Nokian Hakkaflockaflames did well again as expected

Nice. I am getting my winter tires put on this Friday. Once they are on I will be praying for a good snowstorm.   

[68_427]

Ok so after some more extensive research the likelihood I'll ever be able to register the car in NY after the swap is essentially 0% due to having to pass the plug test.  I'm still going to do the swap, but at this point I may end up getting the 10 day temp NY inspection, driving it down to Florida, signing it over to my mom, and registering it in Florida.


Seems easy enough right? 

[MrH]

Lol fuck emissions testing. Move to Ohio. You can do any wild swap you want, no one cares.

[68_427]

Lol fuck emissions testing. Move to Ohio. You can do any wild swap you want, no one cares.

I'll get a PO box

Or I'll give you the yearly cost of NY Reg + inspection to use your address

[Gotta-Qik-C7]

Lol fuck emissions testing. Move to Ohio. You can do any wild swap you want, no one cares.

Unless you live in the counties that boarder Lake Erie! We still have Emissions testing up here! 

[CaminoRacer]

Unless you live in the counties that boarder Lake Erie! We still have Emissions testing up here! 

Damn hippies

[MrH]

Montgomery county!  They don't even look at the car when you register.

[giant_mtb]

Montgomery county!  They don't even look at the car when you register.

Michigan is the same...at least around here.  I've never had to prove a thing at the DMV.  Title in hand, they'll do it.  Fuck going outside.

[68_427]

They don't check here either but you have 10 days to get it inspected

[CaminoRacer]

KY checks VIN but that's it.

[Cookie Monster]

Lucky. You have to smog the car here in CA within 30 days of buying it, unless the seller smogged it within 90 days of selling it (amount of time could be the other way around, don't remember).

Thankfully no such thing with motorcycles. Just walk in with the title, pay the $$$ and leave.

[68_427]

Ok so

I'll use Mike's addres

Register in Maine via mail

Drive it to Florida and register it

How hard can it be?

[r0tor]

If your talking about a OBD2 emissions test - all you need to do to pass the test is disable the emissions PIDs... I passed emissions testing for years without a catalytic converter

[Soup DeVille]

If your talking about a OBD2 emissions test - all you need to do to pass the test is disable the emissions PIDs... I passed emissions testing for years without a catalytic converter

Won't that trigger the CEL? Don't be tests have to be run without it lit?

[CaminoRacer]

Won't that trigger the CEL? Don't be tests have to be run without it lit?

Unplug the CEL bulb?

[Soup DeVille]

Unplug the CEL bulb?

Are there individual bulbs in most clusters these days? Does the test involve plugging into the OBD port and scanning for codes?

I really don't know, I live in Michigan. We haven't had emissions tests since before OBD2 was a thing.

[r0tor]

Won't that trigger the CEL? Don't be tests have to be run without it lit?

So the OBD2 emissions testing just scans the system for the OBD readiness flag (basically means you went more then a few drive cycles since you reset the ECU) and for emissions related CELs.  It in no way shape or form actually looks at operating data to see if the car is running correctly and the emission systems are functioning.

If you have an OBD2 programmer, all you need to do is disable a couple OBD2 flags so you don't have any active CELs and voila you passed emissions testing.

[68_427]

So the OBD2 emissions testing just scans the system for the OBD readiness flag (basically means you went more then a few drive cycles since you reset the ECU) and for emissions related CELs.  It in no way shape or form actually looks at operating data to see if the car is running correctly and the emission systems are functioning.

If you have an OBD2 programmer, all you need to do is disable a couple OBD2 flags so you don't have any active CELs and voila you passed emissions testing.

Interesting.  I don't have a programmer, now would I know where to get one since tampering with Emissions equipment is a Federal offense.

Not that I wouldn't possibly maybe do it



If you disabled the PIDs would that effect the "readiness"?

[r0tor]

Readiness is determined by drive cycles.  I'm pretty sure Cobb has programmers and software available for pretty much all lesbian brand automobiles...