New tougher MOTs.

[harry]

Plus diesel emissions to be lower.

[Jethro_uk]

May-2018-diesel-cars

Ours is on Motability. They'll have to suck it up ...

[The Other Mike]

"Other changes include checks to whether brake discs are obviously warn, oil contamination of the discs and how well they are securely attached to the wheel hubs. "

To see how well discs are "securely attached to the wheel hubs" requires removal of the wheel in just about all cases

In the case of inboard discs they are not even attached to the wheel hubs

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"The MOT test must be carried out without dismantling"

[Jethro_uk]

May-2018-diesel-cars

may-2018-draft.pdf

So ? Just change the rules.

[bert]

In article , harry writes

So Advisory Notes now become Minor Faults. Big Deal

Failures are spilt into Dangerous and Major to discourage drivers from driving away to get a "Dangerous" fault fixed, which is illegal at the moment if it renders the vehicle non-roadworthy. So just making that clearer.

Diesel particulate filter must be present and doing the job it is intended for which will help keep the really stinking diesels off the road.

As a diesel owner I don't have a problem with that.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Red elswwhere (but not read the actual document) that they are going to clamp down on aftermarket HID conversions - even if the beam pattern passes the test. But as usual are behind the times, as it's LEDs which are being used these days. And are often worse for scatter etc than HID, depending on headlight design.

[Nick Odell]

Anybody else appalled by the spelling and grammar in that article?

Oh, only me then...

Nick

[The Other Mike]

The document I quoted that line from IS the (draft) rules from May 2018!

[The Other Mike]

No, not just you, it's a POS. 'checks to whether brake discs are obviously warn' FFS

Similar and almost identical text has been used in other parts of the press today. Makes you wonder who actually writes this crap and how much they get paid for it.

[dennis]

Its only a draft so it may change.

[dennis]

It might catch the fake filter fitters out too. Ebay is full of particulate filter bypasses and other fiddles.

Only criminals should have a problem with that.

[dennis]

It also shows that ABS systems fail major if the warning light doesn't work. Just proves that JWS talks BS all the time.

[tabbypurr]

the stinky diesels don't have filters.

NT

[Steve Walker]

That'll be interesting, as VOSA already issued a letter some years ago stating that they would not prevent the use of aftermarket conversions, as long as they had good beam pattern, as it would be unfair to hold aftermarket conversions to a higher standard that type approved vehicles

- some of which had neither self-levelling nor wash.

SteveW

[Jimbo]

I hate those lights with a blue ting...I think it is the Polis and slow down .........

[Dave Liquorice]

At least they got "brake" right!

You've only just started to spot that an awful lot of "news" is nothing but regurgitated Press Releases? Quite often a verbatim, copy 'n paste job, sometimes few words altered and may be a bit of intro.

There *might* be a hint about a stories status depending if its from a "reporter" or "correspondant, the latter having written it, the former just reporting something.

[Brian Gaff]

Is this not a little like shutting the stable door after the horses have all left? Brian

[James Wilkinson Sword]

I've seen cars with green, yellow, blue, and white, depending on the angle as they pass. The DVLA really should have higher standards for this. Every car has different brightnesses and beam patterns, it's ludicrous.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

It shows it's MEANT to fail if the warning light doesn't work. Most garages can't be f***ed being that pedantic.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

So how did my Honda pass twice with no ABS? Morons like you just throw away money.