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Are you referring to how some states are now using a scan tool to test emissions and that their test equipment then tells them that the car needs to finish its drive cycle, failing the cars emissions test? We're seeing that on occasion in my state too and it's no fun for anyone involved.
There is a SB or TNN on the proceedure required to complete the cycle and it can take hours of an individuals valuable time.
At our dealer, we'll send out a low paid, hourly guy (like a lot kid) as there's no fair way to charge a customer for hours of test drive time if done by a technician.
I'm unaware of Volvo paying labor time to do this when the car is out of warranty.
It's a rediculous situation as for some very odd reason, the states scan tool is failing cars for this when there's really no problems whatsoever with the car and Volvos own VST (dealer scan tool used up to '98s) finds no problems with the cars emissions system either when this occurs. An aftermarket scan tool, used by indy shops will not see any problems either.
IMHO, it's a situation where Volvo needs to get together with these states and find a better solution rather than making 850 owners jump through hoops just to get their cars to now pass emisions (when the same cars did for many previous years). Maybe that's easier said than done (I'm sure) but if the same car was tested by the older method of sampling exhaust, they'ld see that it's within specs and no "check engine" light is on at the time either. One shouldn't then fail a simple emissions test because of this new testing proceedure.
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