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Originally Posted by cuban_bmwx5
hey wpoll i have no clue all i know i heard all x5 under 2002 have to be scanned from 20 pin under the hood but i dont know about the emission they told me 2014 and 2016 i had it done on obd so that it had to be done the same way  |
Some of this is not right, and I will guess that what
wpoll is saying is exactly right. It makes sense. I would take that as the truest thing on this page so far.
I have a 2001, built pretty late, like June 2001, I think, and it definitely has the 16-pin only. No round 20-pin under the hood.
I've never had any problems at all (successful twice so far) getting it smogged here in CA. But I have had a problem on another car (Porsche) where the smog tech did not know exactly what to do until I had to very carefully and patiently explain it to him. Then it worked only after a long debate when he finally listened to me. Typical smog techs aren't exactly out-of-the-box thinkers and your situation and mine (with the Porsche) may require that.
If your car is stock (I'll assume it is, but if not, all bets are off), I really doubt that any law would expect you to make it non-stock so you can pass a test like this. I expect it is the smog station's responsibility to make it work, but they probably don't know as much as wpoll about this.
You might try phoning around first to see if you can find anyone who knows about this. Of course the standard thing is they'll act as if they have a Ph.D. in smog testing and you're in kindergarten, so be ready for that. But you'll probably either need to do what wpoll says and don't mention anything, or you'll need to find a place that knows to do that.
EDIT - I just noticed you're in Canada, right? If so, then I don't know. Completely different laws, so I don't know what they'd expect a private citizen to do. Somehow I had thought you were in CA (the Democratic Peoples Republic of Kalifornia).