alister667
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| posted on 1/9/06 at 12:08 AM |
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Originally posted by russbost
Agree in full with Phil with regard to the Mot if registered on a Q plate age is irrelevant & emissions are not checked whatever is printed on the
V5. Whether it is VOSA's intention to change this in the future however & hence the data being included on the V5
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No, not true I'm afraid. I've already failed an MOT because I've had the bloody limits at SVA put on my V5, and the ARE enforced at
MOT. The tester was able to inform me that a CAT definitely was fitted to my car for it's SVA. Again it is tied into the new computerisation
of the MOT test. If you don't have it written on your V5 you can discard you cat, if you do have it on your V5 you will need a cat on an annual
basis.
Cheers
Ali
[Edited on 1/9/06 by alister667]
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DIY Si
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| posted on 1/9/06 at 12:13 AM |
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Seems to be a wide variety of results depending upon the whim of vosa. Mine was mot'd as a 1980 year car, and had the emissions for that year.
Nowt to do with the 1998 bird engine at all. Also, if the limits are imposed, why bother with Q plates for sva passes? And what about pre 73 cars? If
my mini were any younger it'd never get passed! Yet I could fit a newer engine and still have visual smoke.
“Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
My new blog: http://spritecave.blogspot.co.uk/
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alister667
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| posted on 1/9/06 at 03:10 AM |
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"whim of VOSA"
You are spot on.
I am very disillusioned at the total lack of uniformity in testing across the UK. And that's aimed directly at any SVA tester/VOSA employees
reading this. If there was a VOSA message board, or if some of them would answer questions with authuority on here, surely that would be the way
forward.
The differing rules, moving goalposts and general cluelessness of the testers (I was once told that because my windowless BEC didn't have
windscreen wipers it was an MOT fail!) has driven me to distraction plenty of times (and will again, no doubt).
RANT OVER
Normal service is now resumed 
Cheers
Ali
http://members.lycos.co.uk/alister667/
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DIY Si
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| posted on 13/11/06 at 05:28 PM |
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That seems more than a bit dodgy to me. Might be being think but I don't see how a new chassis and what very much looks like all new parts could
possibly retain the reg? As said here, you could probably get away with a re-chassis, as you can re-shell some cars (ie mini), but that appears to be
going a big step over the "legal" limit.
“Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
My new blog: http://spritecave.blogspot.co.uk/
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