Hi all...

My Talon's been in garage storage for the past 2yrs and i've recently pulled it out for its Drive Clean test. Given that my car failed the last round and barely passed on a subsequant test (see results above), I thought i'd take a gamble and take it for the test.

Apart from two annual oil changes and some fuel stabilizer, nothing else has been done .. except for a bottle of fuel injector cleaner a month ago. I run the engine each weekend just to keep the cobwebs out of the engine.

Amazingly, my car passed .. and what's weird, the results are MUCH better than before !?!

ASM2525 Test
(test / limit / reading / result)
HC ppm: 57 29 PASS
CO %: 0.32 0.08 PASS
NO ppm: 421 24 PASS
RPM: 1472 VALID
DILUTION: 14.8 VALID

CURB IDLE TEST:
(test / limit / reading / result)
HC ppm: 200 45 PASS
CO %: 1.00 0.19 PASS
NO ppm: n/a n/a n/a
RPM: 858 VALID
DILUTION: 14.7 VALID

For some reason, the HC dropped from 64 to 29 and NO from 50 to 24? The only other thing i can think of is that instead of gasing up with higher octane before the test, it went in with the remaining regular i filled up from 2yrs ago.

The gov't also tightened up the limits, sigh!