if a car was to pass its mot at a non-friendly mot station and emissions where above board, would it still be classed as illegal?
Excuse my ignorance C&S, are you saying if your car doesn't have a CAT it would still pass the MOT emissions test etc ,and its just the fact that you don't have one there that it would fail, hence the OEM heatshield looking like you have one? I was always under the impression that it would fail the emissions test if it didn't have one thats all.well my experience with plod is that they are not really the problem, around us there are several vosa roadside test stations where they carry out a basic mot , the last time they setup just off the m4 they had 5 ramps and a line of recovery trucks half filled with old vectras and the like, a family friend who works for vosa told us they were carrying out tests, if the cars were totally illegal they were getting taken to the pound, a modern car failing a roadside emmissions check is one thing, having a blatent decat pipe is something else.
when we had the evo, the decat was so obvious if you looked under the car even my gran would have noticed something looked out of place. with the j's one it utilises the heatshield from the oem cat so looks totally td under there,
i just think with the way mot's and the law is going its something people should consider when picking their exhaust
Some cars will pass without a cat and some wont.. mine has just had a MOT and when my workmate checked the emisions the Lamba was spot on along with the Hydrocarbons but the CO2 was a mile out.. (0.350) should be below (0.200) after messing about abit it finally dropped below the recommended CO2.Excuse my ignorance C&S, are you saying if your car doesn't have a CAT it would still pass the MOT emissions test etc ,and its just the fact that you don't have one there that it would fail, hence the OEM heatshield looking like you have one? I was always under the impression that it would fail the emissions test if it didn't have one thats all.
Right I see, thanks for clearing that up....good result for you after a bit of tinkering thenSome cars will pass without a cat and some wont.. mine has just had a MOT and when my workmate checked the emisions the Lamba was spot on along with the Hydrocarbons but the CO2 was a mile out.. (0.350) should be below (0.200) after messing about abit it finally dropped below the recommended CO2.
I have a Spoon Manifold & 2-1 section with the Resonator so it still looks leagal aswell.