Hello everyone,

I recently purchased a 2003 Lancer Evo from out of state and had it shipped to my home state of Washington. Took the car to get an emissions check and failed for an unlikely reason. The link is the copy of the emissions testing results; any advice or help would be great.

Thanks in advance

http://s17.postimg.org/n9kbk7lsv/Failed_Emissions.jpg

 

If I'm not mistaken you're going to need a flash to set obd checks to pass. Or something else that a guru might know. Luckily you're close to E.R.

 

go on socalevo.net there are alot of emissions threads on there as they have strict emissions laws

 

People here gonna give you bunch of advices,buy this,change that.but do you really want to start throwing money away?probably not.find local tuner and go to him.
I was on the same boat trying to fix my self not having enough knowledge.good luck.

 

"FAIL - Due to all OBD readiness monitors being set to completed" makes me suspect the ECU was already changed to force all OBD tests to pass and they detected it.

 

It looks like your car was already flashed with a rom containing the forced pass patch. Our cars were not equipped with all the monitors selected. You will need to remove A/C System Refrigerant, Secondary Air System, and Heated Catalyst from the Monitor Available/Monitor Passed lists.

 

^^^ best advice. Someone did the force pass patch and didn't set it up correctly.

 

I'm going to say I'm not real sharp when it comes to tweaking the ECU and setting them to pass. But WHAT IN THE HELL does removing the AC refrigerant have ANYTHING to do with smog problem???? I think you are more than talking out of your ***.

If I am wrong please feel free to enlighten me as to what it does to anything in the smog system.

The bastards are getting wise to the cheats!

 

<data>EGR system</data> <data>Oxygen heater sensor</data> <data>Oxygen sensor</data> <data>A/C system refrigerant</data> <data>Secondary air system</data> <data>Evaporative system</data> <data>Heated catalyst</data> <data>Catalyst</data>

There's the xml for the force pass. I see a/c system refrigerant as an option. So if you set that to pass since the evo doesn't use that one it throws a red flag and then you fail emissions. Make sense?

 

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Ya you can't set everything to pass...... your car doesn't have AC system check or Secondary Air check etc etc.... if you set them to pass, it will fail you. They know what you do/don't have.

 

Everything has been set to pass in the ECU, including things that are not factory equipped in the car like "AC Refrigerant". It is clear to the testing center that the ECU has been tampered with.

 

Here, I'll back up my mouth.
https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/no...refer-mac.html

 

Don't worry, those who know, know. Its good that someone was able to help this fella out, it sucks that we have to discuss it in open forum. Especially when he related his problem to failing a state emissions test.

 

These patches are for off road use only anyways so you don't have to see the check engine light.

 

Good enough I stand corrected!

I didn't see in the post where it said that he didn't have AC. It's amazing what they can find to ream you with.