New car inspection method?

[neonerd]

In NY for the weekend, and someone tells me here that no longer to they check things such as broken lights, etc...

Aparently, now they hook something up to your car, and extract something like a "log" of everything that works/fails on your car. Anybody have details on this on how this works/how true it is? Inspection is quite different in MA.

Also, if there's a "computer" taking logs of this, then can't this "computer" be cracked into with something like a modchip?

I was told that this log is on cars made after 1996

 

Are you talking about a pre-delivery inspection of a brand-new car? AFAIK, those still occur (one was performed on my 2004 Accord before I picked it up).

If you're talking about diagnostics, then yes, OBDII scanners can determine what a problem is (usually as a result of a check-engine light, but some other things as well).

 

[neonerd]

Originally posted by: jumpr
Are you talking about a pre-delivery inspection of a brand-new car? AFAIK, those still occur (one was performed on my 2004 Accord before I picked it up).

If you're talking about diagnostics, then yes, OBDII scanners can determine what a problem is (usually as a result of a check-engine light, but some other things as well).

ah, that's what they're called...

googling it now

 

[imported_LoKe]

Yeah, we use something like this in our shop. You can use it to start your car and turn on your radio and whatnot aswell.