MOT/Cat Question ?

[~Delta]

With the new online emission tests, the law is tightening, "friendly" MOT testers soon won't have the option to let a car that needs a CAT but has them missing through, not worth the legal implications. I guess most things can be overridden, but most won't do it.

[Keeper of The Kitten]

Here's a little more detail it's actually the year of engine registery. You can have a 1995 car with a 1991 engine and not need cats.

Just swapped out mates engine on ovlov with this trick.

Jamo, spot on with that answer - I remember it from all the hot-rodding stuff I've read in the past.

In the UK you can theoretically run a brand new car with a big Chevrolet lump from pre-UK-emission legislation and it will be legal.

That's not necessarily true in other countries though! Some prefer the age of the base car rather than the engine.

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[dan_b]

So all you ABY guys should put 3B engines in and rip those cats out

[WabTheKing]

does work the other way? new engine in an old car as mine will be - not that im arsed either way just wondered

[PeteRR]

In the UK you can theoretically run a brand new car with a big Chevrolet lump from pre-UK-emission legislation and it will be legal.

That's not necessarily true in other countries though! Some prefer the age of the base car rather than the engine.

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I thought it went by date of registration of the actual car here too?

[BRY]

So just re-stamp your head with a 7A engine code and you don't need a CAT. :mischeif:

[WabTheKing]

So just re-stamp your head with a 7A engine code and you don't need a CAT. :mischeif:

do you not think they might wonder why a v8 has an i5 identity :mischeif:

[Keeper of The Kitten]

I thought it went by date of registration of the actual car here too?

Depends on the very latest legislation - but what Jamo said was correct and agrees with the last information I received: in the UK the engine was the determining factor.

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