ok i took my car to the mechanic for an e-test. it failed because the NO was double what the passing limit should of been. he supposedly did work on it and it finally past after like 4 e-tests... but to me they appear very suspicous if you ask me, i scanned them so you guys can take a look. i think he ripped me off.





(if you're wondering about the date, i went overseas and couldn't deal with this right away but i think it should affect me complaint)

take a look at those. do you guys see the inconsistensies? he charged me around $470 and it finally passed and the exact words on the receipt were..

"change and clean intake system and gasket"

i personally don't think he did ANY work..i suspect he could of possibly even used some other car for the test given the inconsistencies...also the intake manifold doesn't look like anyone laid a finger on it. recently i found a block plate on the egr valve that i know he put there...this is what gave me the clue to look further into this... why would he do this? what purpose would this serve... did he put it on there before or after the passing e-test... could a car even pass an e-test with the egr blocked off?

this to me is all confusing and i was hoping some of you guys that know about cars can actually make sense of any of this.

i really appreciate it. thanks.

 

if he put a blockoff plate in place of your egr, you would fail big time. a good working egr valve is what keeps your NO numbers down.

 

thank you and any more opinions??? comon folks help me out here.

 

yep

 

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He may have ripped you off.
What might account for the EGR looking odd is the work he has done to it. I know that in the 4th gen accords you need to remove the plate then drill holes and clear out the gunk. Once you do that your NOx should have been a lot better.

 

bump... can you guys please help me???? please.. tommorows my first available day in a long time... i'm gonna go confront him tommorow.. please help.

 

Find someone who knows what they are talking about, it sounds like the guy is full of **** to me, but if you do find out he did something wrong, I'm sure you can take it up in small claims court.

Good luck,
-Rob

 

unless you have proof he didn't do any work... how can you prove ? Obviously a cleaner/replaced intake would help and all the other numbers seem to match up, I don't see why it couldn't be that, did he charge you like 120 or so per test?