Advice on muppet with noisy exhaust

Lum

King_Nothing wrote: »

A decat will soon mean a fail, needs to be visible sign of a cat on cars that were designed to have them, think the change happens on the 1st July.

Got links to the legislation for that one.

I'm not trying to say you're wrong, I'd just like to see the exact wording and whether it applies to me or not.

scheming_gypsy

Idiophreak wrote: »

Sure he knows exactly how "manly" his exhaust sounds...

I quite agree with the post above, though...with the cost of petrol these days, how can it possibly make any kind of financial sense to drive round a paper round? Surely it's going to cost nearly as much as you earn!?

he probably does know how it sounds, but that doesn't mean that he'll know how it sounds to somebody trying to sleep. If nobody has told him yet then as far as he knows, it's not too loud.

[Deleted User]

How can you afford to deliver daily papers in a car. I got £7 a week for delivering papers every morning Monday to Saturday 11 years ago. That would all go on petrol if I did the round in a car.

Madness!

King_Nothing

Lum wrote: »

Got links to the legislation for that one.

I'm not trying to say you're wrong, I'd just like to see the exact wording and whether it applies to me or not.

http://www.dft.gov.uk/vosa/repository/MoT%20-%20Issue%2050%20-%20May%202011.pdf

Page 6 onwards, it say's "proposes" so might not be set in stone yet, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was. And my mistake it's from 1st Jan 2012, not July. If your car wasn't designed to have a catalytic convertor, because it's old, or a specific type of import it should be fine AFAIK.

mcjordi

was gonna say its from jan 2012 has to have a cat in place. other wise its a fail..

asbokid

mcjordi wrote: »

was gonna say its from jan 2012 has to have a cat in place. other wise its a fail..

"in place"... could mean an empty cat can with its guts knocked out and a through pipe instead.

Lum

It doesn't really say much other than "Catalytic converter missing", does this apply to all ages, how is the tester supposed to know the car is supposed to have a cat? Will it use the same regs that currently determine if a car has to pass a cat test or a non-cat test?

Both our cars currently take a non-cat test as they were built before 1995 and the emissions data is not available for them. Only one of them is an import.

Mine currently has an additional silencer, a cylindrical one instead of the usual oval type, where the cat used to be, how are they supposed to know what it is?

mcjordi

asbokid wrote: »

"in place"... could mean an empty cat can with its guts knocked out and a through pipe instead.

yeah suppose so.. but it may not meet the emissions part like that tho

scheming_gypsy

unless of course you've had an engine fitted from before 1992

Raksha

does Kermit know? If not, get Miss Piggy to yell at the offender (my money would be on Animal)