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POTASH:
i thought it was new vehicles only, or am i confused :?

Damonski:

--- Quote from: "POTASH" ---i thought it was new vehicles only, or am i confused :?
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It is, those new rates are for new cars, think we have an extra 5 to pay :)

cheviot:
the emissions test is a bloody joke....i had my 02 Td5 disco in for its MOT last month and it failed 5 times.......on emissions...... :shock: ...next day i put some stuff in the fuel to clean the injectors ...took it for a blast on the spine road, after took her back in with engine red hot ....passed first time :lol:

datalas:

--- Quote from: "cheviot" ---the emissions test is a bloody joke....i had my 02 Td5 disco in for its MOT last month and it failed 5 times.......on emissions...... :shock: ...next day i put some stuff in the fuel to clean the injectors ...took it for a blast on the spine road, after took her back in with engine red hot ....passed first time :lol:
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So what part of "you had blocked injectors which was causing the engine to be missfueld and therefor run inefficiently" is the joke exactly ?

personally I don't find any of it all that humourous.

At the end of the day, the emmisions tests are there to give and indicator of the condition (or at least the efficiency) of the engine.   Granted there is a very fine line between "OK" and "not", but there always will be and at least this way, once a year an engine is running as it was designed to.

muddysteve:
Anybody who takes a diesel for an MOT without first ragging the nuts of it down the nearest dual carrigeway deserves to fail on emmisions, diesels esp landrover ones are very cool running and taking a cold engine for an emmisions test is lunacy

Deisels by design dont work very efficiently when not up to operating temperature and you'll be very lucky to pass, this is another reason for not using them for short trips, if its not long enough for the engine to get up to temp your better of walking/cycling. If more people did the i'm sure the air would be a lot cleaner.


Steve

PS mine passed its MOT yesterday and the emmisions were one of the lowest the tester had seen  :shock:  "running on fresh air" was his comment - its amazing what a well set up fuel pump and good engine oil can achieve

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