On 02/10/2015 13:17, Roland Perry wrote:
In message om, at
12:55:25 on Fri, 2 Oct 2015, lid remarked:

As the vehicles currently on the road are never going to be tested
again, then removing the "cheat mode" is completely and utterly
pointless.

If they are known to exceed legal limits then the driver can be done
for driving them, they can be done now if they are tested and fail.
just because a test isn't in the MoT doesn't mean it can't be tested
and fail and get you a fine. There is, expensive, road side test
equipment that they have been using on vehicles that may be emitting
too much cr@p and the VW cars can be added to the will fail if you
stop them list.

I've heard about roadside tests for trucks and buses, but do they really
also apply to cars?

they can but it was generally considered to be a poor use of resources
as the cars all passed the emissions tests so little would be gained
from doing it, now things are different and some cars produce more cr@p
than buses and lorries.


The point about MOTs is a valid one though, because if they introduce
these tests then it's very likely that only the ad-blue retrofitting
will work sufficiently well.