Okay I had this question inside my head for long time and trying to get honest answer.
My question is if your a mechanic and work either independently or with brand like kwik kar or city garage can you inspect your own car and pass it ...just asking
Suppose you have a mod that is illegal in the state but gives you boost in terms of reliability Or Speed and you have it in your car, can you pass your own car when doing inspection
Or other scenario your catalytic converter got stolen and next you have to get your car inspected and your a mechanic and can you pass ur car ?
Just asking
So caint bypass the system ...Great
I am surprised the topic is still alive but in a seriousness I won't do such thing. I don't want FBI knocking at my door step
It would be DMV or EPA. Not FBI.
You got your ABCs mixed up there
Are you asking if a mechanic could cheat and break the law? Sure. There's probably many scams like that you could pull. The system probably depends mostly on people being honest, but undoubtedly they do perform audits. That's how companies get fined hundreds of thousands of dollars.
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2020/01/14/epa-launches-crackdown-on-emissions-defeat-device-makers
If you are a professional mechanic worth his salt and you care about your business, then you wouldn't risk your inspection license, your livelihood and heavy fines for a car mod.
So in simple language do it but do it under the hood and don't get caught
in simple language, get your priorities straight.
You think an inspector wouldn't lift a hood, or look under a car? They're not stupid.
Before you get mad and angry with me and run me over with a Rollercoaster which is gonna be funny last question
What if your an independent mechanic and the cars is yours?
I'm not angry at all. I thought that was your original question.
when an officer eventually finds the missing cat, you (the vehicle owner) will be fined. After that he may decide to look into who inspected your vehicle. When he finds out it was you, it's going to look really suspicious. At that point he will probably want to look at your records, and maybe go check out the other vehicles you inspected.
In Texas, the answer is no. The way inspections were done changed some time back. Now you hook the state inspection computer directly into the OBD-II port and it pulls all the info and sends it all to the state before it even tells the tech whether it passed or failed. No way around that.
What if the car is so old it has no OBD2 port? Or like some other states does Texas not do emission inspection on Pre-OBD2 vehicles?
We do emissions for those. The car goes on rollers and we clip the old tail pipe sniffer to it. Very old school, but still...no way to cheat it as the computer reads the readings and then prints out the pass/fail report. It's actually hard to find a place that does the OBD-I inspections like that because the rolling machines always break, cost a fortune to fix, and honestly are almost obsolete because at 25 years old cars only need to pass safety and don't have to go through emissions at all.
Are you asking if something illegal is legal?
Depends on where you are. Here in the states most states require a scan tool be hooked up to verify emissions. When the car is read with a scan tool the VIN has to match and certain trouble codes cant be allowed. As far as safety inspection that's visual and subjective. I am not quite sure a mechanic would pass a car that was failing. It's usually the other way around. A car that should pass is failed so as to perform unnecessary repairs and charge extra money to the customer. This is rare as most mechanics are honest
I am sure that it has happened before.
A dishonest, unscrupulous mechanic??? Nah, could never happen....
