I passed the visual but failed the sniffer, but the station I went to still does the sniffer test.
I thought there had been some wording about looking up some values in a DB for 2008 and newer cars so they could tell if the ECU had been modified. Maybe that's not implemented.
It would be nice, ie less of a PITA, if the newer tests weren't that thorough, but why move to a method that is worse at detecting 'harmful' emissions? There's gotta be something off here, either the tech did not do a proper inspection (maybe new inspection guidelines haven't been released) or the machine didn't do a proper analysis of the OBDII data.
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy you passed (and hopefully I will too if I get an OBDII test), but we might not have it as easy in 2 years if the new tests are fully up to spec by then.