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[RyanbabZ71]

IMS from the air

 

 

Finally back on US soil as of last night!!!

 

 

Ryan

[Jsdirt]

That's a great feeling, ain't it?

 

That feeling was never stronger for me that time I came back from Nogales, MX. We only walked over the border and went maybe 100 yards from the checkpoint. My buddy wanted to keep going, but I told him that I like having a Constitution. Wanted to GTFO of there immediately. What a sh**hole that place is!

[RyanbabZ71]

Yea, its hard being away from family for a week. Cant imagine what others (soldiers especially) are going through. My only dislike going home is laundry and the damn rain lol

[StinkyCheese]

Someone needs to come up with a way to defeat all the emission crap, while still having it pass any inspection or testing. I'm sure there's someone out there with the know-how to do just that, but doesn't want obama's jack-booted thugs showing up at their doorstep for selling it, or talking about it on the net.

 

What a world we live in. Pay $65k for a diesel that breaks down because of government regulations ... in AMERICA. Never saw this day coming, that's for sure.

Talk to Volkswagen ;-)

 

 

Or move to a state that doesn't do inspections. Then again that's a double edged sword too. Shit cars on the road because we have no inspections here.

[Jsdirt]

NJ had a fantastic brainstorm a few years back - they eliminated safety inspections, and kept emission testing!

 

 

This is the world we live in today, ladies and gentlemen! Talk about upside-down and backwards! Zero logic. So, you can hurtle down the road with no balljoints left, bald tires, and no brakes ... but boy your exhaust will be clean! Hooray!

[StinkyCheese]

It's NJ, if I didn't have family there I'd never set foot in that crap hole.

[white1500]

Unfortunately AZ doesn't have safety inspections either, just emissions.

 

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[MikeNH]

NJ had a fantastic brainstorm a few years back - they eliminated safety inspections, and kept emission testing!

 

 

This is the world we live in today, ladies and gentlemen! Talk about upside-down and backwards! Zero logic. So, you can hurtle down the road with no balljoints left, bald tires, and no brakes ... but boy your exhaust will be clean! Hooray!

 

 

 

 

I've been on both sides of it. NH's inspection is somewhat strict- I've had friends get burned for some real frivolous stuff like one who had a burnt out KC auxiliary light and they failed him for it. The emissions is token- pre 96 is visual only and 96+ is just an OBDII scan which is easily circumvented if you have the desire to do so. But it does mean the cars on the road are generally in okay condition. Michigan had nothing and the roads showed it. Tons of cars broken down on the side of the road, leaky exhausts, body parts dragging. Within my first month or two I had to dodge a driveshaft that fell off a Ram pickup on the highway. So I don't know. I generally don't keep vehicles long enough for mechanical issues to arise but it's still a drag to deal with sometimes.

[SnakeEyeSS]

My sister in law adopted a cat for her daughter. It was bugging her when she was eating so she locked it in the empty dog cage while she ate. She said the cat was just glaring wth it's ears back. She finished, and let the cat out. Sits down to watch TV. Cat sneaks up and claws her arm.

 

Revenge Kitty! I would have ended that thing.

[Colossus]

We've had the dyno emissions testing here in the Denver area since the mid-90s. In fact I worked for the company that does it, twice back then. While I think it did a good job back then at identifying the offenders, I think now a days with how far emissions components have come and the fact that most folks don't take the emissions crap off or modify it.. add to that that the air quality is not too bad, I think I'd rather have a safety inspection vs emissions testing. If the air quality starts to get shitty again, sure, you can run the emissions testing (but for crying out loud not some corporation like the one I worked for, aka Envirotest that is responsible for all the testing, i'd like to be able to go to an independent repair facility and let them smog the vehicle the old fashioned way, sticking something up the exhaust pipe, using the gas analyzer, and calling it good for 5 or 10 years.

[Daryl LBZ]

Would a fuel pressure regulator going bad put off a smell of gasoline? My Fiance's Cobalt has a smell of gas, and it has a random starting issue. It starts, but it cranks for a while sometimes like it's starved of fuel. It's like the line isn't primed or something.

[MikeNH]

Would a fuel pressure regulator going bad put off a smell of gasoline? My Fiance's Cobalt has a smell of gas, and it has a random starting issue. It starts, but it cranks for a while sometimes like it's starved of fuel. It's like the line isn't primed or something.

 

 

 

It could. When I was at Hyundai we had regulators on Elantras leaking a tiny bit and creating exactly what you describe. On those it was a little fitting screwed into the end of the fuel rail, I'd bet a Cobalt is probably similar.

[Daryl LBZ]

 

 

 

It could. When I was at Hyundai we had regulators on Elantras leaking a tiny bit and creating exactly what you describe. On those it was a little fitting screwed into the end of the fuel rail, I'd bet a Cobalt is probably similar.

 

 

Ah, good info. I plan on checking it over next weekend. I think I'll start with the regulator.

[Daryl LBZ]

My dealer which is local to me now that I've moved closer to it, has this Sierra on their lot. Thinking this would be a good truck for hauling LTL's.

 

[StinkyCheese]

I miss the extended cabs. The silverado 1500 loaner I had for a week was a double cab, didn't like how the double cab looked vs the old extended cab. Headlights were nice and the front end looked decent. Maybe I'm just getting old.

 

Also after having driven whatever that 2016 Buick was, 2016 Silverado, and now this 2016 Tahoe I now understand why there is such a push for all this BS nanny driver alert garbage. I can't see crap out of any of the mirrors, even when I can turn my head to check blind spots (pinched nerve in my neck) I can't see anything b/c headrests or pillars are in my way.

 

This Tahoe also has the alert crap in the form of vibrating seats, scared me first few times. Also has frontal crash alert or something b/c that thing makes me want to crash b/c I am wondering wtf is wrong with the thing while I'm braking. Seats vibrate and red lights flash up onto the windshield from the dash. Other than the idiot systems the Tahoe is pretty sweet, be even better if it wasn't black though, way too hot in FL for a black vehicle.