![]() Smog Check inspections for 2000 and newer model year vehicles are now primarily based on an inspection of the OBD II system tailpipe testing is no longer required. The technician will have access to a scan tool to determine which monitors have not completed. The technician can access technical information from the vehicle manufacturer and should be able to advise the owner of specific driving patterns needed to set the indicators, or may be able to operate the vehicle (most likely on a dynamometer in the shop) to set the monitors. Vehicle owners who fail Smog Check due to incomplete readiness indicators should drive their vehicle as they normally do for about a week or so to set these readiness indicators to "complete." If the incomplete readiness indicators were most likely not a result of a recently disconnected/replaced vehicle battery, or if the vehicle is not driven regularly, the vehicle owner may wish to seek repair technician help in setting readiness. The vehicle will need to be driven more before the vehicle can be tested to pass. It does not necessarily mean that anything is wrong with your car - it simply means that the vehicle hasn't had a chance to run all of its self-diagnostics to confirm that everything is okay. This can occur if a fault has recently been repaired, or if you have recently had a dead, disconnected, or replaced battery. If too many readiness indicators are "incomplete," the vehicle will fail the inspection because it means that the vehicle has not been operated enough since the on-board memory was last cleared to allow all of the OBD system checks to complete. If a fault is currently causing the light to be on, you need to have the malfunctioning component repaired before you can pass the inspection.Īdditionally, the vehicle stores information known as "readiness indicators" to indicate if the vehicle is ready for an inspection. Specifically, the technician visually checks to make sure the warning light is functional, and then the Smog Check test equipment communicates with the on-board computer for fault information. In California, technicians are required to perform an OBD II check (visual and functional) during the Smog Check inspection. This is from the CA smog test regulations :. Very disappointing to have such a great car and have to go through all this. Would I now be able to pass with those codes simply not supported? Or does not supported pretty much mean not ready.I hope you can get this problem fixed soon. I never would've gotten this tune if I knew it would create all these problems, I have smog due in 3 weeks and I'm completely panicking as I'm a noob to all of this stuff. I assume the stock cat fixed this problem as it was related to the HFC? And even if it wasn't fixed the check engine light would've come back when I reverted to stock tune? Could this have anything to do with my smog problems? I had the car tuned by Jeff Evans, at one point I had the P0139 check engine code, but Jeff told me it was purely related to the high flow cat and the secondary o2 and there was no problem so we disabled the light. ![]() So I have no monitors not ready and hondata isn't able to give me the info on them, or am I still screwed? However these things don't say not ready on Hondata, they just say "not supported." (photo attached). Everything is supported and ready besides Heated catalyst, secondary air system, a/c system, and EGR system. Over the next 3 days I drove about 145 miles through various conditions, mostly (45-50 mph stop and go, and 55-60 mph highway cruising, and maybe 30 miles of 70-75 mph highway cruising) I decided before going back I should check what my flashpro says about this and it seems as if things might still not be good. He told me to drive the car 100 miles and come back. I get the car tested and everything passes besides my Evaporative and Catalyst monitors being "not ready." The smog guy was nice about it, told me this happens when ecu/battery is replaced or reset. In preparation of this I removed my berk hfc and replaced with oem, and I reverted my Hondata tune to stock (not stock equivalent calibration, but as in I clicked the revert to stock button.) So I think I'm beyond ready as I now only have my HKS catback and a carb legal K&N intake. So after owning the s2000 for about a year a half I get the joy of taking care of smog in California. ![]()
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