Where do you live? The county you live in affects some of what gets tested. In major metros (Dallas, Travis, Harris, etc.) they do a sniffer that is more stringent than say out in BFE.

To be honest, I have *never* had issues, with either visual or sniffer testing, even in cases where I may been missing an emissions component, like say, a cat. Wait I take that back, I once had a dealer fail my Evo for having a test pipe. But even then, just swapped back and I was set.

Also I assume you're talking about an Elige? With modern EFI, and most credible aftermarket mods having a well integrated look, I would not worry at all about it.

Now, if you're talking about a G car Espirit with an engine swap running on a MS system, than I don't know.

 

I don't think they do sniffer tests for OBDII cars, they simply check for the OBD readiness flags. I've never heard of anybody getting a sniffer test for their modern cars.

 

Thanks, that's good to know.

Good point on the county, I'm in Dallas county so yeah it's a bit more stringent than out in the middle of nowhere. And yes, I'm talking about an Elige... probably an 05 or 06 Elise.

 

Drive down to San Antonio. As long as your lights work you're good to go

 

My inspection in San Marcos goes like this.

Inspector get in the car, says oh, gets out, asks me to drive it, we drive 200 yards, hit the brakes and pull into his shop.
He gets his gas cap tested, walks beside the car, looks at the gas cap cover, shakes his head walks back to his computer and says that will be $7.

So uhh, easy down here

 

I just did mine today. Nobody tests anything. I flashed my high beams and signal lights and paid $7. 5 mins. That's at Timber wood Lube in Bexar County

 

Can concur: in Houston...

1. Provide insurance
2. Brake test 25 -> 0 in under some silly number of feet
3. Plug into OBDII and check sensors
4. Test fuel cap
5. Pay the man

Last year, the tech that did it was so flustered at having to inspect the Elise that he failed to locate the correct fuel cap (which is silly, since it's a common one). He just ended up passing it on principle.

 

Thanks guys. Sounds like it's not anything to worry about.