http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41761864

So it looks like the MoT tester will need to check that the DPF isn’t just an empty filter casing from May 2018. About bl**y time too!

Speaking as an MOT tester, I can’t see how they are going to do that.

“They believe many thousands more are getting away with it because current emission tests do not always detect it, and another test - which involves only a visual inspection of the filter unit from the outside - is not adequate.”

So, the emission test doesn’t always detect it and the visual check is not adequate so how do you think we are going to check it? Remove the exhaust and check it internally? Never going to happen. Apart from the fact that you can’t remove ANYTHING from a car to carry out the test, the cost and potential problems of an in-depth check on a DPF make the statement that they are going to tighten up the DPF inspection in the MOT test a load of old ball cocks! Past: FL2 TD4 HSE Auto
Evoque SD4 Dynamic Lux Auto
Present: Audi A3 S Line.

We shall see...

Equipment currently exists to detect the particulates, that's how information about this form of air pollution is gathered, so it won't take much imagination to design a device that can be used to test for diesel particulates to be stuck on the exhaust of a car to test it.

J

Well, they seemed to be able to fit unobtrusive DPFs on trains years ago

 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

http://dynoremaps.co.uk/dpf-replacement/ At work
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That’s very interestingly worded, considering that what they are suggesting will mean that their customers will be committing an offence as soon as it’s driven on a public road.

No Dpf fitted on my Fl2 .

Mark 2009 FL2 TD4 SE (Sadly gone)
2007 FL2 TD4 GS (The wifes , gone after 8 great years)
2012 FL2 SD4 SPORT LE(Gone and missing it)
2015 DISCOVERY SPORT 2.2SD4 HSE (For now ?)
2014 Ford Bmax 1.0 ecoboost ( Gone but what next )
2014 Ford Focus 2.0tdci Zetec S

its simple

1000 fine for cars & 2500 fine for heavier vehicle if the DPF has been removed. section 42 road traffic act, construction and use.

Fines in the future may be calculated on the mileage the car has covered as well without a cat/DPF

New software is being released for analysers for the MOT.

its actually very easy to spot cats or DPFs removed, using heat seeking camera's, takes a few seconds, live data looking at Pressure sensor values, exhaust temp probe readings, all a dead give away Jaguar x-type sport gone
Jaguar x-type 2.2d sport one of my best cars ever sadly gone
Freelander 2 GS auto 2008 most unreliable ever ! gladly gone
Freelander 2 GS manual 2013 only time will tell !

Plenty of people out there offering software removal of DPF as well as physical removal or disabling. But MOT testers are never going to be able to pick up on that in the real world, they don't have the time and/or equipment to test.

Reminds me of people who used to sell empty VCU or IRD blanking plates for the FL1.... visual inspection would show a full 4WD system but it would never work....

Are there really owners that aren’t bothered about wrecking pollution control equipment, purely on the basis that they don’t believe they are going to get caught? As each and every one of us and our families need to breath, it seems to be in our own self interests to keep this stuff working.

For those that won’t play the game, the May 2018 and onwards MoT test might be interesting.

My lad and all his mates have all had at some time a " decat" of their vehicles , courtesy of some clown who thinks he is living a part in " Fast and Furious 99 " or whatever the latest release of spotty youths car porn is. Apparently the MoT aspect relies on sticking the emissions probe up the exhaust of a "donor " vehicle

Thankfully he has grown up and is looking for a nice car that will have to last 3 years commute to work. Sense should prevail and keep it out of the hands of West Yorkshire's answer to Vin Diesel... 2009 GS Auto Zermatt Silver - Sold June 21 after 10 years of ownership

2016 Subaru Outback SE 2.0 diesel SE Premium Lineartronic Sold 2024 after 8 years and 80k miles . Best Car I ever owned !

2023 Toyota Hilux invincible X 2.8 Auto .

Still can’t see them coming up with a workable solution. All they will say at the moment is that they are thinking of adding another RfR (Reason for Refusal- failure to you and me) of 'obviously modified’. That’s a joke. Many people cut open a DPF, clean it or replace it and re-weld it. Obviously, some just remove them but.....who is to say whether there is one inside? You cannot fail what you cannot see and there are quite a few cars that have undertrays where you cannot see anything. You can be sure that that will be challenged on day one if it ever comes out. Would you like your car failed because it has a weld on the DPF that the MOT tester didn’t like the look of?

There’s plenty of chatter about this on the MOT forum. https://mattersoftesting.blog.gov.uk/diese...integrity/ Past: FL2 TD4 HSE Auto
Evoque SD4 Dynamic Lux Auto
Present: Audi A3 S Line.

Tigger wrote:

Are there really owners that aren’t bothered about wrecking pollution control equipment, purely on the basis that they don’t believe they are going to get caught? As each and every one of us and our families need to breath, it seems to be in our own self interests to keep this stuff working.

For those that won’t play the game, the May 2018 and onwards MoT test might be interesting.

It is interesting reading the comments on the MOT tester’s Forum. They certainly have a heck of a job determining if a DPF has been destroyed or not. Some complain of being targeted for this, yet when they make complaints about companies blatantly offering this service to end users, nothing is done.

I can’t think of a parallel to the openly advertised, blatantly illegal and anti social, removal of emissions equipment, without the perpetrators and their customers facing the enforcement of some serious legal consequences.

It’s not even as if these people are hard to find, simply google “DPF removal” and go and pay them a visit!