News & Publications - E-news
The AirCare E-news is a monthly newsletter created to keep business partners and the general public up-to-date on AirCare and vehicle emissions related issues. Visit the E-News Archive.
January 2012 - 136th Edition
- Steve Stewart, AirCare’s new Operations Manager
- AirCare Certified Repair Centre List Online
- The 11th Annual BC Lung Association’sStairclimb for Clean Air
- Inspection Statistics from 2011
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Steve Stewart, AirCare’s new Operations Manager
The AirCare program is pleased to announce that Stephen Stewart, PhD., P.Eng has accepted the position of Operations Manager. Steve has been with AirCare since 1993, serving as Senior Project Engineer.
In his new role, with the assistance of a team of four, Steve will oversee all the technical issues pertaining to AirCare including the integrity of the inspection process, repair and inspection centre audits, reporting of statistics and benefits as well as repair industry relations.
AirCare Certified Repair Centre List Online
Beginning, January 1, 2012, the AirCare program stopped printing a hard copy version of the AirCare Certified Repair Centre (ACRC) list. Motorist looking to have a vehicle repaired by an ACRC can now find this information exclusively at http://www.aircare.ca/repinfo-listings.php.
The ACRC list is grouped by region and contains address, phone and repair success scorecards for each of our certified shops. Migrating to an entirely electronic version of the list allows AirCare the ability to provide customers with the most up-to-date information, while saving a few trees in the process.
The 11th Annual BC Lung Association’s Stairclimb for Clean Air
The AirCare program is once again proud to be a sponsor of the BC Lung Association’s Stairclimb for Clean Air event to be held on February 26, 2012. This event challenges climbers against the 48 floors of the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel. Participants, including a team from Envirotest Canada (contractors for AirCare), will make their way up 739 stairs to the top of the Wall Centre to help raise funds in support of lung health and air quality research, education, and lung patient support programs across the province.
For more information on this event, visit http://www.bc.lung.ca/campaigns_and_events/stairclimb_for_cleanair.html or their 739 Steps blog, http://739steps.wordpress.com/.
Inspection Statistics from 2011
The following are some inspection statistics from 2011.
- AirCare performed 468,756 emission inspections.
- 42,367 unique vehicles failed their initial AirCare inspection.
- AirCare’s busiest month was March with 43,414 emissions inspections performed. December experienced the lowest number of inspections – 30,275 inspections.
- The month of June experienced the highest failure rate – 12.85% compared to the 12.03% average for the year.
- The month of January experienced the highest pass rate – 89.09% compared to the 87.63% average for the year.
- 54.48% of the vehicles tested at AirCare received an On-Board Diagnostic (OBD) inspection. OBD continuously monitors a vehicles emissions system and informs the motorist when a fault with is detected. 1998 and newer vehicles are eligible for OBD inspections.
OPERATIONAL STATISTICS
December 2011
Total Inspections:30,275
Pass: 26,588 (87.82%)
Fail: 3,589 (11.85%)
Conditional Pass: 98 (0.32%)
2011-Year-End Statistics
Total Inspections:468,756
Pass: 410,788 (87.63%)
Fail: 56,393 (12.03%)
Conditional Pass: 1,575 (0.34%)
