Hi,

If I remove both my cats and put a full scoobysport exhaust for example and assume I have a performance air filter such as a K&n cone filter... how would I stand doing a roadside emmisions test??

Would the car pass... If warm or If cold...

Also would I be liable for "driving an unroadworthy vechicle as it is unable of passing the mot... therefore unroadworthy?"

or would I be better off hacking the cat to bits and welding the can onto the heat shield and around the down pipe so it looks like a cat and it is just broken not obviously removed???

David

 

Hi David

I could be wrong..(and probably am). But I understand that you are allowed a day or two to put problems correct before representing the car for a new MOT test, which you must obviously pass.

The cat idea is a winner..( you could blame in on a faulty o2 sensor then ). Sounds not unlike what happened in Group N when the regs changed to cat rules. (obviously we fitted a proper one, same as EVERYone else... )

Now.. let me just go an ask one of our copper customers........

Cheers

Paul
TSL

 

Having followed the Trouser Express (and heard it coming five miles away!), I hope you get two days to sort things out!

ChrisB.

 

If you have an import, you dont need to pass anyhing emissions related .

Ignorance is no defence in a court of law. Might yield a lesser sentence.

The threat of ever getting in real trouble over excessive emissions is tiny. I have never met anyone who has been stopped.

Of course they will give you a chance to sort it out, what are they going to do? crush your car.

Dodgy number plates are mot failures, doesnt make the car unroadworthy. They give you a producer which requires you to get an mot station to stamp the form. Most will do this no questions asked, as they know you can change it back immediately.

Without cats, hot or cold, yo will not pass.

If really bothered buy a power engineering, or preferably a bpm high flow cat centre section. If your lambda sensor isnt buggered, you should be able to pass an mot if it is sufficiently hot.

And I managed over 300bhp with my cat still in place.

 

Right then B0ll0cks to it... ill just hope when they stop me.. they are more bothered about the speed I was doing :-)

David

 

I managed 346bhp with a cat in place.