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Offline NERF 69

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just a heads up
« on: 12 March 2013, 09:17 »
Im assuming some of you know this but this is for those who Dont decats on diesels will be illegal this year do to quite a few changes to the mot
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Re: just a heads up
« Reply #1 on: 12 March 2013, 09:43 »
Care to expand on this? Any reading materials?
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Re: just a heads up
« Reply #2 on: 12 March 2013, 11:13 »
There has been lots of speculation about this

Equally Im fairly sure they cant make it retrospective i.e it would have to be from when the legislation was made  :undecided:

Please post your source / links  :smiley:
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Re: just a heads up
« Reply #3 on: 12 March 2013, 12:35 »
The information came from my tester who is a good friend. I mentioned i wanted to decat my tdi and he said its ok at the minutes but it will be a fail soon. Any car with a decat which was manufactured with one will be a fail
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Re: just a heads up
« Reply #4 on: 12 March 2013, 14:46 »
Is your friend doing what most friends do and exaggerate and use their position as leverage to make you believe something that is only a slight possibility?

Could VOSA or whoever it is just do that, ie Every car after 2000 must have 'standard' cat?
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Re: just a heads up
« Reply #5 on: 12 March 2013, 18:19 »
He has no reason to exaggerate all im telling everyone is something from a reliable source whether or not people believe me is up to them at the end of the day if someone wants to Decat thier car they will i just thought passing the information on could possibly save people a bit of money
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Re: just a heads up
« Reply #6 on: 12 March 2013, 19:30 »
I love my decat, but I never threw the cat away, just in case I have to deal with sh!t like this! :sick:
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Re: just a heads up
« Reply #7 on: 12 March 2013, 19:43 »
I am not wanting to cause a ruccus  :lipsrsealed:

I'll do some googling  :smiley:
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Re: just a heads up
« Reply #8 on: 12 March 2013, 20:55 »
From what I've heard from my boss, (Tester) it's actually a grey area. There isn't anything coming into the m.o.t for failing diesels without a Cat, but there is for petrols. So as I see it, some will fail you, some won't. You just have to go to the right guy ;)
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Re: just a heads up
« Reply #9 on: 12 March 2013, 21:01 »
Quote from: Hoggy on 12 March 2013, 20:55
From what I've heard from my boss, (Tester) it's actually a grey area. There isn't anything coming into the m.o.t for failing diesels without a Cat, but there is for petrols. So as I see it, some will fail you, some won't. You just have to go to the right guy ;)

Equally how is the tester to know what car is fitted with what. Take a DPF for example; not all cars are fitted with one even if they are the same car, built in the same year with the same engine etc etc
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