someone came to my house to use my JHM cable, and when we logged in to the JHM tuning site, the pull down menu of options had 3. One of them was a tune there labbelled ‘danny y’ IIRC…
Keith, this is a problem on a number of forum cars (and who knows how many others)
Before now, most emissions tests were a) DTC (CEL) check…and an exhaust sniffer. Because emissions tests are now, in many districts, doing away with an exhaust sniffer, and relying on checking readiness and doing a DTC review, the APR supercharged guys are finding that APR was not able to figure out how to allow readiness to go forth. Someone at APR surmised that it was the deletion of certain hardware, and the normal readiness sequence could not commence.
We have seen a number of APR 1320 customers bring this up on the forums, and they were all told the same sequence it seems
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“it’s not a problem on other people’s cars, they’re all fine, it’s just you” - this is not true…those other people who ‘passed emissions’ weren’t having readiness checks over the last few years, they were having sniffer and CEL checks…so it is a problem
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“it’s not the tune/kit…it’s your car that has a hardware problem” - this is also not true…as evidenced by Danny whose shop changed hundreds if not a couple thousand dollars of stuff on his car trying to do what APR suggested it ‘might’ be. This was further evidenced when Danny’s shop took a SECOND apr 1320 RS4 and tested for readiness and had the EXACT problem. That car too will not be driven legally as a result.
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“we will have engineering write a new tune” - as we have seen, this still doesn’t seem to have happened, over a year later
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“we can’t solve it” - then the customer is left to play with his dick, or lie to the authorities about where he lives…or as APR employee FlyingTomatoes@APR advocated, bribe an emissions tester
Bottom line is there is an easy solution - contact Kurt, ask if you can borrow his 1320 emissions passing tune, make a press release that JHM has helped APR out of another bind, then deny it later.
notice that he changed the title to ‘issue legally resolved’? That’s flyingtomatoes@APR getting in his ear. Fail.
Keith I truly appreciate you tackling these issues. It seems like if anyone forces a resolution it will be due to your persistence.
Technically its Arin, getting in some blind soldiers head, and it ultimately ends up in the target’s ear. Flyingtwatsandwich is just the guy that takes orders to get the deals!
Yeah, but imagine the let down when someone with the same issue is all happy to have come across a thread that says the issue was resolved only to find out the solution was to bypass emissions altogether by moving lol.
I’m annoyed … Awesome, someone found a solution! … What the fuck??
I agree. I’m guessing Arin asked Anthony to tell a moderator to update the title.
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THIS.
If you’re looking for more proof that audizine is just F’ing over their members there’s proof. It’s not even the OP that’s making the changes to his own thread.
My car failed as well, but i was able to convince the inspection shop that my battery was having issues, which has created the catalyst fail…he gave me my stickers and its all good
In flyingshitburger’s books, that means Apr solved it lol
I don’t think that wouldn’t work in Ontario. Computers are linked and auto send the info to the ministry. Not much the tech can do. At least from what I saw when I had my emissions done.
Same here, there’s nothing the tech can do to help you out
According to a few tuners, they are changing the way that emission testing is done everywhere. All the monitors that the car has active from the factory still have to be active and reporting data.
“not installed” or “not supported” will not pass anymore on most vehicles. I don’t know about Audi here in IL but about a year ago it changed for Ford models and now Chevy guys are having the same issues. My car passed 1.5 years ago with everything showing as “not supported”. Now all the domestic tuners which tend to have rather…um…crude tuning methods are scrambling trying to figure out a way to get cars to pass. They usually just turn everything off.
Forgot about that part; they do that here as well. My friend’s 09 Cobalt SS failed that way. The way around it was to tell the ECU the cats were still installed and use non-foulers