Re: smog frustrations!!!!

[Dan Brideau <dan@hobbyetc.com>]

Dry gas, dry gas, dry gas.

With your gas gauge on the "E-nough" reading, put a handful of $1 bottles of dry gas in your tank.  I have had V8 beaters with no cat at all pass clean as a whistle using this trick.  My 16V has no catalyst in the cat, passed squeaky clean too.



At 04:43 PM 9/2/98 -0700, you wrote:
>
>so I took my rocco in yesterday to smog, thinking
>there is a very good possibility it will pass.
>BUT, it didn't.
>
>Not only did it not pass, but they want to charge
>me $110 for a diagnostic just to figure out what's
>wrong!  That's not even including what it will cost
>to fix it!
>Unfortunately, my area requires that effing dyno smog.
>And they tell me I missed by .01 percent!
>
>aaaarrrrrrrggghghghgghghgg
>
>In the end, I bet it will cost me upwards of $300 to smog
>my car when all is said and done.
>
>just venting, thanks.
>
>
>Alex Ting  (pretty sure the CARB is run by Nazis)
>
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>8303 Sierra College Blvd., Suite 150
>Granite Bay, CA 95746
>
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>Email: alex@millenniumsolutions.net
>
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