View Single Post
      08-28-2019, 10:04 AM   #5
technician117
Captain
United_States
251
Rep
606
Posts

Drives: 2000 M5, 2001 M5, 2013 M5 6MT
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Buffalo

iTrader: (1)

Garage List
1990 BMW M5  [0.00]
2000 BMW M5  [0.00]
2013 BMW M5  [0.00]
Quote:
Originally Posted by klingan View Post
Thank you. I drove the car for about an hour going through "drive cycles". People staring at me driving my M5 at 55mph on the highway.. .embarassing.

Anyway, I went in this evening to recheck. The OBD was now ready, but the guy at the smog testing center says black smoke is coming out of my exhaust. Mind you, I don't see anything. Then he looks under my car and says that the car is missing the catalytic converter. I say no way considering it's a cpo. He lifts the car up to take a better look and still can't see it so he wants to fail the test for me. I'm getting upset cause this stickler is wasting my time and potentially more if I have to take time away from work to go to the dealer. So I check online and find that our cars have the cats under the hood. I tell him to look there and he still can't see it until I tell him it's under the engine cover. Thankful for instant internet access.
Sounds like you should find a different/better smog station! What a jerk.

So was the end result of him finding the cats, a "pass"?
Appreciate 0