Hrsturbo

Failed On emmissions! Not bad concidering car has been sat for a year. Hasn't been driven but gave it a good run there and got 9% on idle.

Gonna stick some new fuel in and redex and give her a thrash on the way to retest.

Any tips to pass??

Shall I clean spark plugs or not bother??

On Go-tech management btw.

cheers

Bungle

Mine failed on the same in january so i asked for advice in the rsturbo room, A guy said pull the dipstick out a bit i thought he was taking the piss and questioned him lol Anyway thought fuck it nothing to lose and that was it mine passed so apologised when i came back on

You may think im taking the piss like i did but try it

Hrsturbo

thats a new one, will give it a go, like you said nothing to lose.

cheers

Paulo P

I've seen my local garage get cars through by removing the oil filler cap.

BM08

your Escort GTi failed on emissions?

Matt Evans

My old 1.9 series 2 was always a bit "questionable" on co emmissions on tickover.

My trick was to pull one of the little vacuum pipes of the top of the inlet manifold, that way it draws air in a weakens the mixture enough to get it through the test. It'll make the tickover lumpy but it still run?

DONT forget to push the pipe on when youve had the test!

C4llyT

I think at 9% I'd look at actually fixing it.

Hrsturbo

so you think something wrong other than the fact its been sitting around for a year?

C4llyT

Well yeah really.
Needs new oil, plugs, air and fuel filters, then a tweak on mixture screw may be needed to finish it off, well on a normal non cat, don't know with your management.
Presume it's passed on current set up before?

Hrsturbo

not had MOT since management changed but was told it would pass and has adjustment in the glovebox on the ecu for mixture. other than that has to be linked up to laptop for adjustments.
Will change spark plugs and see, oil is new so shouldnt be that and got foam filter on which isn't that dirty.

Bungle

Where have you been

I swapped it for an s2 before christmas then sold the s2 and bought the gti back