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Issues during state inspection
About a month ago my alternator was replaced (voltage regulator issue). After the dealership replaced the alternator, I have to let the car warm up to at least 170* before driving otherwise it's like a someone waking up after a hard night of drinking; sluggish and bogging VERY bad. If I try to drive it before warming up I'll get a check engine light. The inspection site said it might be build up around and/or near the throttle body.
The other problem I have is that when the inspection place does the emissions test. The car fails on the recirculation test and on the O2 sensor test, well it doesn't show failed, it shows Not Competed. The inspector stated that the vehicle is only allowed up to 1 fail on the test and it's common that a car fails the recirculation test. We tried putting the car's O2 sensors through their drive cycles multiple time but it won't show up on the diagnostics as completed. He did a scan for trouble codes and found nothing and scanned the O2 sensors. On the front sensor the voltage was sitting at .95-.97 at idle. The inspector said he didn't believe that was normal but wasn't sure due to the car being a turbo and not a NA.
Here's the following mods I have on my car:
Intake
intercooler piping
SOLO street exhaust
HPTuners tune
None of these as far as I can figure out would affect the O2 sensor.
So.....................The car goes to the dealership tomorrow for guess work.
Any tech savvy heroes on here wanna take a stab at what the problem might be?
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