This looks to be pretty serious - anyone in the trade know anything more?
Bit more info: PistonHeads Headlines - Modified car 'Armageddon': don't panic. Yet.
Police and military are exempti think if it happens every one should go postal...
they don't have the right to ban a hobby that is all over the world, also if they ban modding cars the police force will be screwed considering there hole fleet of cars or tuned
so an MOT test. lolSo how do things change with this âproposalâ?
must undergo a roadworthiness test
The fast and the not so furious, London drift, staring vin diluted diesel (to care for the enviroment)Its probably as Warren quite eloquently says people with little better to do with their time or job creationism - a common trait of our own Civil Service and most probably replicated amongst our EU counterparts.
Having said that, I reckon there could be some scope to define a "dangerous modification" and having seen some of the s**t to grace car forums, supermarket car parks and Southend sea front over the years i'm inclined to agree (blue fluffy engine covers (we all enjoyed that one didn't we!), over stretched tyres, windows blacked out to ridiculous levels?) we've all seen it and would probably struggle to argue that some of it is actually potentially dangerous...how about the thread from yesterday regarding Power Pulleys for instance?
Either way, it's not good news for Halfords or Vin Diesel
I think a few big names in the industry such as K&N, Forge etc. Might have something to say as well as places such as badger5. Your talking 10ns of millions pounds lost to a silly ruling as well as taking millions of peoples right to have a hobby. I have one hobby, it's my car, i'm now 32 but since 17 i have allways tinkered in some way with a car.
Good thread Big Bad, yet another reason why we should get as far away from Europe as we possibly can!
That said, some comments are true, there is. Itching to stop you having a 1200 Ho mixes, and so many. Are that are modified at home are dangerous. But so are many cars worked on at professiOnal outfits. I'm thinking of wheels falling off in particular after a garage service! Dad knows what I'm thinking of....
Sadly, whilst the law makes no provision for common sense, we can only hope that in this instance it will prevail!
you leave my mate Ed out of thisso an MOT test. lol
its all a load of balls
I think a few big names in the industry such as K&N, Forge etc. Might have something to say as well as places such as badger5. Your talking 10ns of millions pounds lost to a silly ruling as well as taking millions of peoples right to have a hobby. I have one hobby, it's my car, i'm now 32 but since 17 i have always tinkered in some way with a car.
I suspect we'll see a trend towards TUV style approval for aftermarket tuning products, especially those that effect emissions, and safety such as suspension and braking.
Good thread Big Bad, yet another reason why we should get as far away from Europe as we possibly can!
That said, some comments are true, there is nothing to stop you having a 1200bhp micra, and so many cars that are modified at home are dangerous. But so are many cars worked on at professional outfits, I'm thinking of wheels falling off in particular after a garage service! Dad knows what I'm thinking of....
Sadly, whilst the law makes no provision for common sense, we can only hope that in this instance it will prevail!
Actually a TUV approval standard wouldn't be a bad thing when you look at some of the tat being sold on e-bay from the far east (cheap coilovers spring to mind).
Actually a TUV approval standard wouldn't be a bad thing when you look at some of the tat being sold on e-bay from the far east (cheap coilovers spring to mind). Add into the mix that many go on to fit the kit themselves and you can end up with some pretty unroadworthy pieces of **** on the roads.
I've always been astonished by the untested / unregulated tat people will bolt to a car that will be used in the worst of Britains weather at all speeds. When you think you have 4 contact points on the road the size of a piece of paper to keep you in safe / in control of your car, there's a slither of the regulation that I buy into, but thats where it ends.
So law will allow the sale of remould tyres, but you can't have a panel filter. Genius!
Ah yes, I'd totally forgotten about scary german remaps that run 0.9x fuelling across the board :S eek.
And guess who owns one of these beastiesI think it'll effect the small guy 10x more than the big guy.
Larger companies will simply sought approval for fitting products and the like, what we forget, is that most tuning products currently available already meet the type approval standards for countries like Germany, where this kind of system already exists. if you buy brake hoses from Goodridge, you can pay a few quid extra to get the TUV certs with them.
The UK is not the only market for tuning parts, and as such more parts sold by international companies already meet the required approval standards for more strict companies, they simply don't provide the associated documentation when sold in the UK.
Big firms like AMD and JBS will end up with some form of licenced approval to fit approved parts, and the move will be made towards professional work only. In Italy it's already illegal to work on your own car!
Whether smaller firms will be able to afford the costs of such changes is a worry.
This will not be the end for modified cars all together, I simply refuse to accept that as an even remote possiblity, but it could spell big trouble those those already owning heavily modified cars which can never be returned to standard.
I guess we'll be buying a bigger trailler and doing more Airfield days Dad?