Extortion at its finest here.....

I decided I want to start driving the Pontiac again because of the great gas mileage. I got her back on my insurance policy ,charged the battery, cleaned all the terminals, checked all the fluids, measured for a roof rack, ETC. Cleaned her up and she runs great....its still a Pontiac <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/barf.gif" alt="" /> Sunfire but the turd is a shining. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

I took it in for the emission test and it passed all the emissions with no issues EXCEPT that I had charged the battery and the computer had no memory of a "drive cycle". Now it seems they hook up to your computer and have to have data that was erased when I charged the battery. At this point I am flashing back on the last time I took this car in for a test and it failed because of the seal on the gas cap. A $3.00 part cost me a $50 test that time. No four cylinder engine should fail especially over trivial crap like this.

<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> F%#$ing maggots!! These reasons for failing tests obviously have nothing to do creating clean air but are more about creating frustration. I swear if this state didn't have the ocean I'd be back in the rockies.

Que the U-haul.