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Old Dec 15, 2009 | 06:20 AM
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I went for an annual inspection and thanks to New York's new wonderfully invasive laws, you must allow your OBD to be plugged into a state machine that will fail you is yor car is 100% safe but gives ANY fault code. That means you could have not closed your gas cap tight enough and you fail the state inspection and now can be ticketed when you leave and get stopped by a bored trooper who does nothing but write paper on everything he can. THANKS NY!!! The place doing the inspection did a diagnostic and plugged in with their scanner before actually plugging my car into the state machine and got a code of P1606. Oddly, I have no warning lights on the dash what-so-ever. Does anyone know what this code us for???
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Old Dec 15, 2009 | 06:37 AM
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you will fail even if you don't have a readiness code? Anyway, there is a list of VAG codes somewhere, try googling for VAG code list or similar.
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Old Dec 17, 2009 | 05:28 AM
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Yeah, gotta love invasive NY. I called around and it looks like its an ABS code that never cleared when I recently had my module rebuilt.
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Old Dec 17, 2009 | 08:22 AM
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Originally Posted by dcso30
I went for an annual inspection and thanks to New York's new wonderfully invasive laws, you must allow your OBD to be plugged into a state machine that will fail you is yor car is 100% safe but gives ANY fault code. That means you could have not closed your gas cap tight enough and you fail the state inspection and now can be ticketed when you leave and get stopped by a bored trooper who does nothing but write paper on everything he can. THANKS NY!!! The place doing the inspection did a diagnostic and plugged in with their scanner before actually plugging my car into the state machine and got a code of P1606. Oddly, I have no warning lights on the dash what-so-ever. Does anyone know what this code us for???
"Rough Road Spec Engine Torque ABS-ECU Electrical Malfunction"
as to what is actually wrong idk??
maybe hit up a friend to barrow an ABS module...or a junkyard
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Old Dec 17, 2009 | 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by skinnytirez
"Rough Road Spec Engine Torque ABS-ECU Electrical Malfunction"
as to what is actually wrong idk??
maybe hit up a friend to barrow an ABS module...or a junkyard
Module masters rebuilds bad ABS units as well
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