[NefCanuck]

ANTHONYD,May 16 2005, 12:50 PM Wrote:Now I have to pay crappy tire the 89.99 to diagnose the damn thing.... then the repairs on top of that.

Cars suck.

The woman rattled off about 20 things that could have made it fail.....

o2 sensor
cat converter
air filter
injectors
emissions control sensor


Jezus, the list went on and on.

It's a 96 tercel. It;s NEVER had to have work done to it before....

I hope this isn't the "big one"
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Sad part is, I'll just bet that if you took the car to another garage and had them do a second emissions test, the damn thing could just have well passed the test. The Drive Clean tests are frankly nothing more than a scam because any car less than 5 years old shouldn't need a test because if its running that poorly as to not pass the damn thing would barely run at all and be throwing CEL's like a Christmas tree.

But at ten years, there could be more than a few things failing or ready to go on the car in this example. I'm sure you did the change the oil, oil filter & the air filter before the test right?

A '96 Tercel? That should be OBD-II compliant, any way you can borrow a code reader to see if its throwing any codes?

NefCanuck