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Originally Posted by rough
you need to spend the $450 at a emissions testing shop for it to count towards the conditional pass limit. If you spend $450 and do the work yourself, according to the email response from the etest people, it does NOT count towards the conditional pass.
clear as mud.
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yah, what you're saying is 100% true. what im saying is doing it like that is not the best way. the best way is to do the repair yourself and get it to actually pass, without having to do conditional.
the risk is you risk spending over $450.00 but at least you're going to get a real pass if you fixed it right and re-run the car. most of the time you will be under $450.00 or right on the mark and its a real pass man. and its perfectly legal to do it like that, there is nothing in the rule book saying you can't do it like this.
its unwise to get a conditional unless you're planning to scrap the car within a year or sell it as-is for really cheap.
economy lube is a test only facilty, they aren't required to fix any of the vehicles nor diagnose them. they are required only to run hte tests.