Maintaining Your Evaporative Emission Control System

For example, your car has a number of control systems to regulate the emissions that it lets into the air in order to reduce harmful exhaust and fumes.

But all noxious odors aside, the evaporative emission control system that is place in your car does need your help to maintain proper function.

What it’s doing

The evaporative emission control system is a finely built computer system that regulates the emissions that your car is producing as you drive or idle.

Because your car uses gasoline or a blend of gasoline and ethanol, you are burning the fuel in order to use it to move, but the process creates a chemical reaction in which vapors are released.

In order to prevent the bad chemicals from being released into the air, this system was built to hold onto the emissions and keep the air clean.

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What cities are doing

One of the ways that some states are attempting to maintain emissions controls is through necessitating emissions testing for all owners of registered vehicles.

The owner has to go to a testing facility and have their evaporative emission control system checked. If their emissions are low enough, they will pass the test and be able to renew their registrations, but if not, they will need to get the emissions leak or system repaired at their expense.

What you can do

In order to keep your evaporative emission control system working well (and reducing the need for repairs), you should make sure that you are getting regular oil changes as well as using the proper gasoline octane as recommended by your car’s manufacturer.

While making sure to get your exhaust system checked is also necessary, chances are good that your exhaust will need to be replaced entirely when you realize that there might be a problem.

Over time, your evaporative emission control system will need to have its charcoal filter replaced in order to be able to filter all of the dangerous particulates from the emissions that it does produce. A good sign that you might need to get this checked is when your fuel efficiency drops dramatically.

But if this still doesn’t make sense, contact Steve to discuss all of your emissions options with you. Steve is an expert at controlling emissions and knows what you need to know.