tim... wrote:


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* dennis@home wrote:
On 09/09/2019 16:50, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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**** tim... wrote:
Want to say what it was?

some emission sensor or other

the actual emissions were fine, it was just the sensor that was
buggerd

Pattern ones are about £30.


You shouldn't tell him that he likes to think the EU caused him to scrap
the car and not stupidity.

Oddly, it was the US that started emissions controls on cars, not the EU.
Nothing to do with saving the planet, but to make things more comfortable
around LA.

And an MOT doesn't check emissions throughout an engine's range.

but it does check that the sensor warning light is off


Any condition I can think of that would cause the engine management
light to come on would also result in a failure; but I don't think that
just having the light come on would, by itself, do so. Although I'd be
interested to hear of any possible examples where it might not.

tim



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