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Anyone seen this? More bureaucracy inbound. These surveys are always so amateurish in their wording!

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Feel free to reject the proposal...

How will this affect cars that are properly maintained with working emissions equipment though ?

I hate all the extra control but I'm on the fence but may be mid-interpreting it.

Dave!

Sorry we can’t do this for you as the government has no money

Proceeds to spend millions on a proposal that will just shaft vehicle drivers everywhere, on something that already gets checked on mots

They suggest bringing this in with a 6 month grace period- Renault couldn’t even get jobbo an air conditioning compressor, how can we expect them to get 50,000 dpf’s, cats, adblue pumps, etc

While I think it’s crazy to expect a ten year old car with maybe 150,000 miles on it to meet exactly the same emission standards as it did when brand new, I also think lots of people are taking the piss.

Buying cars which in theory have low emissions and sit in a low tax band, to then gut the dpf and code out the able system.

Maybe I didn’t read far enough, but I’m not sure what they’re actually proposing or how they would enforce it?

Mot tests already check emissions meet the appropriate standards for the age of the vehicle. Afaik if they suspect a car has been modified to not meet the standards they can make you go get a fresh mot.

duncs500 wrote: Mon Aug 31, 2026 6:42 am
Feel free to reject the proposal...

Just did. Takes about 5mins.

For more than one question I highlighted that the existing MOT test verifies that emissions meet regulations.

I'm surprised at their "fewer than 1 in 10 cars meets the official limits for nitrogen oxide"..... that looks suspiciously like a different-testing-methods-yield-different results issue to me?

Better start saving for new OEM cats on all my cars then.

There’s a lot of words then right at the end it says:

Therefore, our focus will likely be upstream and focus on addressing practices that involve illegal modifications to the ECS of vehicles.

It’s cracking down on people selling dpf deletes, de-cats, egr deletes, obnoxious remaps. Probably not such a bad idea.