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dorsetfreelander

Member Since: 20 Jul 2013
Location: Dorset
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Sounds like the "mileage correction services" that are easy to find too. 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

7th Nov 2017 9:37 am

Tigger

Member Since: 30 Mar 2011
Location: L15KRD
Posts: 2555

Although at least there’s some pretence that there’s a legit reason with mileage “correction” and sometimes it’s even genuinely the case!

7th Nov 2017 10:24 am

AjM

Member Since: 09 Sep 2014
Location: South Devon
Posts: 124

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Tigger wrote:
It is interesting reading the comments on the MOT tester’s Forum. They certainly have a heck of a job determining if a DPF has been destroyed or not. Some complain of being targeted for this, yet when they make complaints about companies blatantly offering this service to end users, nothing is done.

I can’t think of a parallel to the openly advertised, blatantly illegal and anti social, removal of emissions equipment, without the perpetrators and their customers facing the enforcement of some serious legal consequences.

It’s not even as if these people are hard to find, simply google “DPF removal” and go and pay them a visit!

The point is that is it is not illegal to remove it so these companies are simply offering a service. It is no different to going to a tint shop and having them tint the windows forward of the B-Pillar. Completely legal until you drive off from the property same as the dpf, and like the dpf, not picked up or even part of the MOT.
I am not saying its right, the opposite in fact but until the law is changed to stop people freely doing these things it is a pointless battle.

14th Nov 2017 7:15 pm

Lightwater

Member Since: 21 Aug 2014
Location: Sydney Northern Beaches
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Some manufactures maybe using special software to detect when the car is being tested so the filter is not bypassed! Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

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15th Nov 2017 5:40 am

turboextreme

Member Since: 03 Nov 2012
Location: devon
Posts: 362

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The usual visible sign of a disabled or removed Dpf is soot in the tail pipe, a working dpf leaves a almost clean pipe.

25th Nov 2017 9:38 pm

Steve D

Member Since: 19 Jan 2013
Location: Essexshire
Posts: 4109

Tigger wrote:
...........For those that won’t play the game, the May 2018 and onwards MoT test might be interesting.

Don’t hold your breath. The new limits will only be for diesel cars registered AFTER Jan 2014 and they have been reduced from 1.5 to 0.7 BUT .........

The big change is that many modern diesel engined cars nowdays cannot be revved to their maximum rpm speed when stationary as required by the smoke meter testing equipment, and most cars nowdays are like this. In this instance, we have been told to issue a pass and note as an advisory item that maximum revs could not be obtained during the smoke test.

Seems like they are making it easier to pass the smoke meter test, not harder. Oh well, that’ll look good in the statistics I suppose and no doubt some minister or Government department will take the credit........ Past: FL2 TD4 HSE Auto
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28th Nov 2017 4:53 pm

Yorky Bob

Member Since: 28 Apr 2015
Location: Yorkshire
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DPF you have been warned

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25th Feb 2018 4:34 pm

Hippo

Member Since: 23 Feb 2014
Location: uk
Posts: 140

I think it's reasonable for car to have to meet it's emission figures. If it doesn't then it's broke'd and needs fixed. The fix may be more than the owner is happy to pay but that's how it goes.

I always talk to the mot tester while he's testing my hippo. I remember some years previous I was there when a noisy hot hatch turned up for his booked mot and the tester said to me "that's failed". We talked about this and he said too much noise and it fails... but it's down to the tester to choose the level and that one was a fail. I asked about de-catting exhausts and he said in the 20+ years he's been testing he'd only ever seen 3 he thought had been tampered with on purpose. They either know not to take them to him or it's a lot of hot air. No pun... Hippo's videos - Honorary Tratterer

25th Feb 2018 8:34 pm

Bobupndown

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26th Feb 2018 8:38 am

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