Yep, interesting times for the Series owners among us. Short-hand is that a rolling 40 years is to be applied to MOT exemption from next year. That 1977 S3 will not need an MOT..... unless its been modified ( since 1988) such that its got a 15% increase in power to weight ratio, which will hit the TDi & V8 conversions. Time to dig that 2.25lt lump out of the back of the shed ?
No idea how they'd plan on enforcing this though. Do the DVLA records know what the original power plant was or is that over-written when a new engine is installed ? I suspect its also possible to get an extra 15% out of a 2.25 with nothing visible to the eye by increasing the compression ratio, engineering manifolds etc ? Somehow I don't think they plan on sticking us all on a dynamometer ?
.....and not that long before early 90s/110s are exempt too ! Makes you feel old !
Hi gem,
Unless folk have informed dvla of there engine serial number and size most are un-recorded on the v5 so who to say what was fitted and when bar its orginal reg number shows up if you check mot or tax history it has what size engine it orginally or last record of change it had. So if mr pc knows his stuff and are allowed to pop your bonnent to check what engine you have in it and take or find a serial number of the engine to check against there records again vosa check points on motorways and few roads they have power to check all 8 score points are orginal to the vehicle records so that it self will be hard to police so to speak , how many police officers or vosa are up on there mechanical skills to identify all historic vehicles that will qualify for exception to mot ?
Dig out the old 2:25 ! Which one lol, still trying to fit a 2.5n/a which makes me wonder about the cost of these old engines are going to become quite sought after and price wise will go up mmmm time to lock them up secure !
Again with vehicles being mot and tax excempt this will again increase the values of these vehicles which in turn the spair parts market will increase it has a big knock on effect this mot exception .
I wonder how many coil sprung series will be excempt ?? People with the v8 etc will a cost of a mot really make them want to swap back as fir safety reason having your mot each year helps you keep your vehicle in a safe condition but how many will see it as a way not to bother to fix ir check items which would normally be a fail
Series 1 ,2 and 3's all have the brake issues which with a mot test your always ensuring you have them all working but how many will bother when it up to them to check ??
I can see a lot of potential vehicles which should not be on the road suddenly appear come next year and a increase of accidents due to this happening, sorry I'm looking at it negatively as know how much work is involved yearly just to maintain the landys and always think I will still will get a yearly check up wether excempt or not as a second pair of eyes is always good and may help ensure the vehicle your driving is safe for you and fir fellow road users to know that the vehicle they see is highly maintained.
I think they estimated 293 thousand vehicles will come excempt come may next year I wonder how many out the figure a year later are still road worthy or been involved in a accident due to poor or no maintance done??
At end of day how or who will check your vehicle meets the qualifying excemption if nothing in v5 or engine has been change who will own up to it ?
Who out the thousands will still ensure the vehicle is regularly fully checked and any repairs are done to make it road worthy ?
How many vehicles ie landrover which claim to be tax free which are highly modded and it's just a plate and v5 making it tax exempt will be mot excempt and who will decide that they are ?
Questions questions so having two vehicles mot and tax excempt is that good or bad for me I wonder ??
Ah well just me blabbering on as usual pay no attention folks catch u all soon .