These things were mainly boy racers, gearheads that wrenched their own
No shop would touch it back then, as they feared loss of license and
jail time.
Now that the herd has gone to these to drive the old outlaw or underground
providers go main stream with legit business (money) the Fed's are now
more and more involved. Betcha they also paid big bucks for source
code from the OEMs
Used to be more of a nuisance to them and occasionally they would catch
one of us out on the open road with their road side test rigs
Ditto the OEMs paying for warranties that they could not prove was
voided due to modifications to their mandated by law smog stuff
My garage at parents house (now mine) has a back alley with a 3 car
garage I built when in high school. Used to switch engines for buddies
who got their notice to test before registration could be paid for
Could change an engine in a day or less. Took no money, as if caught,
a higher level of offense...just gave them a list of parts I wanted
for my vehicles
So Jeremiah, the only way as mentioned is to take it to a dealer with
their very expensive scanners to tell. My mechanic has a scanner that
he had to license (rent/lease), as they do NOT sell them to non-dealers
Bet that 'previous' owner tried to put it back and used to work when
memory was erased when power was removed from the ECU. No more...new
stuff has non-volatile
Non-volatile memory
