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Originally Posted by Sapphireho

You're probably right. Reminds me of a story about my last Civic.

It was a 1984 and one of those cars that was passed around the family. It had 350,000 miles. It was originally my mom's, then she gave it to my older brother who had it for years, then he gave it to me for the last 2 years of its life.

The car never died. I went to have it smogged. The idle solenoid on the carburetor wasn't working well that day, so it couldn't do the idle test, but was badly failing every other smog check, so it had an incomplete test. The car had a blue book of about $5 and it needed a $1000 carburetor and a ring and valve job to pass. I filled out and filed all the paperwork to sell it to the state with their gross polluter buy back program for $1000.

My application was rejected. To qualify you needed a failed smog, not incomplete. I took it back to the station and told the guy I needed a failed test. He was doing the test with the same result; it wouldn't idle down low enough. I told him to pull a plug wire. He said he couldn't do that. When he wasn't looking i pulled one wire and bingo, it ran like shit and the RPM dropped enough for the computer to complete the failed test.

I resent the application with my failed smog, and a week later drove it down to the pick-n-pull and walked out with a $1000 check.

The funny thing is the Civic was still getting 25 mpg.

Hard to kill a civic.

Well bugger me TLDR that story would give Humfrz a go