Good grief! You've not got a big enough population to make different pollution tests justifiable per province! (If they are anywhere.) Must be some big egos but small brains somewhere near the top

 

It was the #7 fuse passenger fuse box. I put a 10 in there for now calls for a 5. Thanks again u guys always save me hundreds if not thousands. Going for emissions test tomorrow

 

Do you have P1111 displayed and nothing else?

 

It just says no codes present on my scanner.

 

Oh ya and the seat moves again and theres no check engine light on the dash. Cant believe I didnt spot it sooner. Then again it happened in the dead of winter so I probably woulda waited till it warmed up out anyways to get to the bottom of the CEL & P1633 code which aside from the seat moving had no effect on performance. Crazy how a .20 cent fuse can be so frustrating.

 

We have about the same population in the Metro Toronto/Golden Horseshoe area as Scotland--we could have our own country if we wanted!


Really our emission testing has not bothered me--my cars have always passed so far. It is really just another tax!


My beef is that I have gotten so used to the clean air that when I travel to some places I find breathing the air somewhat obnoxious.


Just as a matter of interest, I had to test my 2004 S-Type 6 weeks ago. Since my car was winter stored with the battery removed I had some concern with how much driving it would take to get all the systems ready. I drove about 80km.It was fine

 

Here is a bit of a trick with the DriveClean program conditional pass. They will run a diagnostic & quote you for the repairs, and you have to spend "up to $450" in emissions repairs. However, if there are no individual repairs they can do for less than $450, you only pay for the E-test, diagnostic fee, and second E-test (50% off if done at the same location).

I recently got a conditional pass with codes P0400 (EGR), P0442 (small evap leak), P0456 (very small evap leak). For the EGR valve replacement they quoted $538, and the evap leaks $898 (replacing the charcoal canister behind rear crossmember).

Just had to pay $210 out the door which included the E-test, diagnostic, and smoke test of the evap system.

 

That sounds fair. Where did u go? The people I've dealt with gave me the impression its likely an expensive & mandatory fix to get the sticker. So much for honesty these days

 

I believe Scotland doesn't have its own emissions testing regime - though I'd not be surprised if they did have! There again, it would be EOBD (almost exactly OBD II) as they'd be bound by EU law (as they are now and so are we).

I'm glad to hear your car is OK.

You might hate the air in many of our big cities - OBD doesn't do a good enough job for diesels (hardly tests for NOx & PM - diesels kick out over 20 times as much NOx). I suppose it's because where OBD was designed they have few diesel cars so didn't face the terrible pollution we have.

 

I was born in Huddersfield and at one time was trained to breathe "industrial air"
I have been re-trained over the past 50 yrs to breathe clean air!

 

You're so lucky!

 

I got mine done at Sammy's Service Centre (Yonge & Eglinton). Have never been there before but I had a fine experience, very easy to deal with.