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Originally Posted by eatsleepboost
Dpaul your post is correct except in MA you are allowed to have 1 "not ready" non-continuous monitor. Since the cat monitor is continuous it has to be ready to pass. An evap rediness can read "not ready" and still pass.
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Not sure I follow. Yes, as I stated in post #4, MA allows 1 not-ready monitor. However, I don't think a distinction is made between continuous and non-continuous monitors.
My experience has been that a not-ready cat efficiency monitor will pass MA inspection, if all other monitors are set. I have done this many times, at several different inspection stations, over the last decade, with three vehicles that were tuned and lacking converters.
However, I was failed when I showed up with both cat not-ready and evap not-ready. To be sure, this case involved a tuned E90 335xi, not the M3, but that shouldn't make any difference.
Perhaps it was just the inspection station that I used. I was forced to remedy the evap problem.