How do you get around OBD2 Testing in GA? (System Not Ready)

[Sportsguy83]

Fellow GA 86's.

I believe if you remove Cats, your Emmisions system will show "not ready" in the OBD2 monitor...

Then, if you use the EVAP soleniod line for boost control, that is a second system that will show "Not ready"....


So how do you get around this in GA? (Having two systems not ready for OBD2 yearly test)

@Reaper @dwx @ATL BRZ

[2pt5RS]

the readiness should go away after about a week. I've had that before (not in my BRZ, but in another car). After driving roughly a full gas tank, the readiness was...ready.

We don't need emissions yet for our cars. I believe next year will be the first year. I think it's 3 years after the car comes out is when you need emissions to get your tag... and even then it is/was only in metro atlanta. The rest of the state, unless I'm mistaken, doesn't have emissions.

[Sportsguy83]

Originally Posted by 2pt5RS

the readiness should go away after about a week. I've had that before (not in my BRZ, but in another car). After driving roughly a full gas tank, the readiness was...ready.

We don't need emissions yet for our cars. I believe next year will be the first year. I think it's 3 years after the car comes out is when you need emissions to get your tag... and even then it is/was only in metro atlanta. The rest of the state, unless I'm mistaken, doesn't have emissions.

Thanks. I was reading the law and it seems emmisions is only 13 counties within ATL metro area, but the OBD2 test is everywhere? Might be mistaken, I don't live there just reading up in the GA page for emmisions.

Is one system allowed not be ready like in other states? Or all systems are required to be ready?

[ATL BRZ]

I know that my tuner has disabled the DTC for cat readiness so I've never seen it, but then again I've never actively monitored that metric in Torque in regular driving so it may not be actively "ready" even though the DTC is disabled. I'm not sure how that works. As far as I know we do not have visual inspections in Fulton county. I have a secondary cat but I never bothered to move the secondary O2 sensor aft of it since there's no point to. Worst case scenario I have my OEM header and can swap it on the lift if I absolutely needed to.

[Sportsguy83]

I need to actually drive the car around now that I'm not flashing it 3 times per drive to see what the monitors read... Maybe they all show ready and I don't even know.

[Lawn_Mower]

I had tons of issues dealing with customers cars without cat and with tunes in the Volkswagen world here in NC (OBD2 only inspection testing) curious to see what's needed to get catless and tuned cars though inspection on this platform.

The issue we ran in to with inspection was when the tune disabled the fault codes for the missing catalyst, the ECU no longer checks to make sure it's working so the readiness test wont run and it will be unset. Obviously different tunes can handle that differently, but what we had to do was run a O2 spacer and the stock tune, then force the readiness tests using our scan tool, get it inspected and then flashed back to the stage 2 programming. PITA like I said.

[7thgear]

it's 2014


can people stop ripping the cats out of their daily driven cars?

[Sportsguy83]

Originally Posted by 7thgear

it's 2014


can people stop ripping the cats out of their daily driven cars?

Not really.. Also good to note, I don't daily drive my car.


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[J_kennington]

FYI, the state of Georgia allows 2 sensors to not be ready before auto failing the test. If a sensor shows not ready, you need to put between 65-150 miles on the car. Then it should pop ready. A tune should not matter, in fact...it theoretically should help pass emissions. Other than that, there is no way to "sneak" an obd2 car. Unlike an obd1 where you can manually input info, obd2s do it all automatically from the port.

[Sportsguy83]

Originally Posted by J_kennington

FYI, the state of Georgia allows 2 sensors to not be ready before auto failing the test. If a sensor shows not ready, you need to put between 65-150 miles on the car. Then it should pop ready. A tune should not matter, in fact...it theoretically should help pass emissions. Other than that, there is no way to "sneak" an obd2 car. Unlike an obd1 where you can manually input info, obd2s do it all automatically from the port.

2 sensors to not be ready allowed is good enough. That is the exact info I needed. Ecutek boost control tunes will have at most 2 sensors not ready. Thanks!

[Reaper]

@Sportsguy83 I am exempt from emissions testing in 49 states.

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[Sportsguy83]

Originally Posted by Reaper

@Sportsguy83 I am exempt from emissions testing in 49 states.

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GRRRRRR....

[Reaper]

Sorry.

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[King Tut]

Originally Posted by Sportsguy83

Thanks. I was reading the law and it seems emmisions is only 13 counties within ATL metro area, but the OBD2 test is everywhere? Might be mistaken, I don't live there just reading up in the GA page for emmisions.

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