[volkswagens-for-life]

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I just purchased a 2013 with the 3.0. It has at least a stage 1 Malone tune with the egr and dpf deleted. The car passed NH emissions testing every year since it was tuned, I am looking to get it inspected in Ma.

I currently have three systems showing “failed or incomplete” in readiness. The fuel system, secondary air monitoring, and oxygen sensor monitoring. Only the fuel system come up under the engine block. I don’t have any fault codes related to any of those systems so I believe that the issues are tune related and did reach out to Malone (not that I expect them to provide much info).

Ma allows 1 not ready system, I’m not sure what Nh allows, but I’d like to try to get an inspection sticker on this thing for the 3 years it has left of emissions testing. I currently have 5 cars without stickers, so skipping inspections isn’t new to me..

Anyone have any thoughts? I’d also be curious to see an unmodified readiness vcds page to compare. I’m not sure if the “not installed” portions will register as not ready in the emissions test.

And today we learned that tuned and deleted cars cannot set readiness, therefore failing you if your state has emissions testing that requires you to have 100% readiness.

 

[volkswagens-for-life]

My state does not require 100% readiness. Nor did I learn that a tuned car, let alone a deleted tuned car, will have issues passing an emissions inspection. Like I said, I have 5 cars without stickers. The game ain’t new. The relevance to my question is the car passes NH emissions and they’re similar, but not the same as MA. And more so if all of the monitors showing as not ready are tune related or not. I don’t have experience with this car with this tune.

Those readiness monitors that are offline appear to be related. If you're not concerned about emissions or monitors readiness what exactly is the point of this post?


By the way, according to your DMV rules, your catalytic converter in a diesel must be ready, and you're allowed one readiness monitor to be non functional. You sure you thought this through?

 

[volkswagens-for-life]

Ideally so someone who knows first hand could chime in or so someone could provide a stock read out of the same vcds pages so I have something to work off of. And to find out if all three are definitely tune related or mechanical issues that could be fixed before trying to inspect.

I personally don’t know how sophisticated the states testing is, especially with diesels. I’m more familiar with the gas side of things. Obviously NHs isn’t all that sophisticated since it passes their emissions test as is. There’s only one “not ready” under the engine block plus the “not installed” in the egr. Which is why I’m guessing it passes NH. I don’t know if MA digs in deep enough to care about the secondary air and the oxygen sensor which are outside of the engine readiness block.

Additionally, I’m potentially looking to register as a commercial and want to make sure before I tie myself to a more stringent registration than a personal plate. It’s not the end of the world if I can’t get a sticker. I just want to actual info and the car passing NH emissions adds a wrinkle where maybe passing MAs is possible when I’d normally say it isn’t. I bought the car with the full expectation to register it personally and leave it inspectionless until it’s 15 or it dies. But if I know I can get it to pass an inspection, I’d register it commercial

All I'm going to say is if you're truly registering as commercial, that means you're getting it DOT inspected and it's an instant fail being deleted.

 

[volkswagens-for-life]

Not heavy enough for dot

You sure you've done your homework? FMCSA says your wrong 😉

 

[volkswagens-for-life]

I’ll look it up, but it’s under 10k gvwr and I’m not transporting hazardous material or pulling trailers.

Edit: still confident that dot is not required. I’ll take the trailer hitch off so there’s no questions about GCW even if I read it as if I pull a trailer to transport property and not the cars basic ability to pull a trailer.

Every Van, truck, and suv would pretty much require dot and I can promise you that there are hardly any under 10k vehicles with commercial plates that have dot reg in Ma.

Wait, are you simply registering with commerical plates or are you actually registering this under a corporation, providing commercial insurance and acquiring DOT and/or MC numbers??