Hello all!
New to this forum! Have a 1996 Sportage which passed the CA emissions smog test two years ago, but this year it's getting a Fail in the OBD sensors but passes all emissions tests fine. Which means it fails, overall. Getting little help from our local dealer. History of the vehicle, which my sister used to own and service faithfully, is that it had several problems passing the OBD part of the emissions test back in Georgia where she had it, but would pass some years, not others, and one year it so continually didn't pass that she obtained a waiver. Very spotty but there was nothing that the dealer could do/did do. It was fiddly, and despite repeated letters, repair visits, etc., it was always "maybe it will pass, maybe it won't."
Again, I passed with the car in 2004 here in CA. After getting repeated reports that the car wasn't ready for testing, and suggestions to "drive it more" and so on, now our dealer is claiming that a $1200 repair/replacement of the PCM & EGE "might" fix the problem, but this is obviously an insane amount of money to fix something that might not actually fix it, and from what I understand has no bearing on the actual "dirtiness" of the emissions system, which is what the whole test is about, after all.
I don't want to drive a polluting car, and am not, but need to understand the consequences of this PCM/EGE component.
Sorry for this wordy post but I figured you'd understand!
Any info you might be able to share would be most appreciated!
karen in downey, CA
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