Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:10:24 -0500
Reply-To: wilden1@JUNO.COM
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: You won't believe this one!!
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* What kind of environment impact are these cars having?*
1000 Oil puffing, rich running VW vans driving 10K a year =1 Diesel Rig
running 100K a year
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:55:50 EDT KENWILFY@AOL.COM writes:
> Here in New Jersey we went to dyno testing last year. Here are my
> observations so far:
>
> 1. Increases time of inspection by about 400%
> 2. Decreases the accuracy of emissions testing (we have had cars
> that never
> passed the old idle emissions test, pass the dyno test!)
> 3. Increases the chances of damaging the vehicle, hurting someone,
> or causing
> an accident. Before a trip for testing was simple, now it is tense,
> hoping
> that nothing bad is going to happen.
> 4. We are having emissions tests done on every car that comes
> through except
> diesels. I was very shocked and stupefied when I took a customer's
> 76 bus
> through inspection and they put it on a dyno. Here is a car that
> was never
> really designed to meet any emission standard. At the time I don't
> believe
> they had a standard, so where are the Pass/Fail numbers coming from?
> Anything before 1980 should be exempt at this point. In NJ the rust
> catches
> up with the older cars so that we don't have a ton of them like
> California.
> The amount of pre 1980 cars that are used as daily drivers in NJ
> could
> probably fit in my local Wal-mart parking lot. What kind of
> environment
> impact are these cars having?
>
> Is there any organized effort to petition for some kind of different
> emissions testing system? The one we have now just isn't efficent
> and safe
> (plus it is way more expensive than the old one).
> Sorry for venting, but thanks for listening.
>
>
>
> Ken Wilford
> John 3:16
> www.vanagain.com
> Phone: (856)-765-1583
> Fax: (856)-327-2242
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