"Gene" wrote in message
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http://www.tireindustry.org/features/TPMS.asp
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My daughter just paid big bucks to pass the MA safety inspection because one
of her tire pressure sensors was bad and showed up as a error code in her
soccer mom, Chrysler mini-van. (I call it her Egg-Mobile).

The MA state inspection is notoriously tough. Everything that the vehicle
was equipped with from the factory must work. If you have a car with a
fancier trim that includes additional lights, side markers or reflectors and
one doesn't work or is broken, it flunks, even though the same exact vehicle
in more vanilla form that doesn't have the extra lights, etc. will pass.

They did, however, get rid of emissions testing by running the car on a
dynamometer and measuring the exhaust gases. Now they just plug into the
car's computer and look for any error codes. Cars built before 2005 are
now exempt from emissions testing.

This really ****ed off a bunch of state authorized and licensed inspection
stations who paid big bucks for the installation of dynamometers in their
inspection bays. They are now tearing them out.

Eisboch