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It would have been about $2,000 but I did not pay for it.
It was smog time in March 2005 and I could not go on the machine because of the check engine light. Gone through this before, every 2 years, ever since I bought the car.
But this time I had 6 fault codes. The big one was 1689 - faulty DME and the only cure is to replace it. Until the DME is replaced you do not know if the other 5 are false faults.
When my car was sold in March 1997 the California emission warranty was 7 years. It is right in the warranty booklet - 7 years/70,000 miles. So I was past that.
The shop foreman is a friend and he said the California warranty was 8 years. My car was a few days shy of being 8 years old. So I got a free replacement DME. Never bothered to check if the newer cars had a longer warranty or how it could be retroactive to my 1997, as I think I got a favor.
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