Armageddon for modified car owners

This or similar legislation was tried before, a decade or so ago. The car manufacturers tried to get non standard body panels or other parts fitted after accident repair outlawed. It would have meant that if you had a Ford, only parts made by Ford could be fitted and probably only at a Ford or Ford approved garage.

AFAIK the legislation or the effect of it never came into force, unless this is the resurrection of it.
 
nkata said:
This or similar legislation was tried before, a decade or so ago. The car manufacturers tried to get non standard body panels or other parts fitted after accident repair outlawed. It would have meant that if you had a Ford, only parts made by Ford could be fitted and probably only at a Ford or Ford approved garage.

AFAIK the legislation or the effect of it never came into force, unless this is the resurrection of it.
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This would be great fun for me considering they stopped making panels for my car about 20 years ago.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Why the don't go after johnny poor boy rocking wanli's instead of proper tyres I'll never know, I bet fitting dross like that has a bigger impact on road safety.
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This annoys me more and has a far bigger impact on road safety than having a non standard exhaust fitted.

I don't think anything will happen with regards to this. Since July 2008, there has been an EU ban on exhausts, with the view to reduce noise pollution.

Since 1993 there has been a ban on altering/adapting any emission critical part.

I should think this will be another EU directive that will come in, that the UK hopefully will ignore.
 
I may be reading this wrong but I don't see what the fuss is about :S the way its written it looks like stuff like uprating brakes and swapping the OEM exhaust for an E marked one will be fine as the vehicle will still comply with its type approval (and exceed it with better breaks). Looking at it it seems its chav stuff like ripping out ABS and airbags that its coming down on.
 
Overlag said:
some country's in europe this is already the case isnt it?

What on earth are they trying to solve?
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Here in Belgium it's pretty much already in force.
France is even worse I've heard.

Modifying cars here is very difficult. Even braided hoses or uprated brakes would fail an MOT.
I wasn't allowed to fit an Eisenmann Race exhaust as it doesn't have a German TUV certificate :(

The tuning scene in Belgium revolves around new VAG cars on bags, as they don't need an MOT until they're 3 years old and the small diesel engines are cheap to tax and insure.
 
http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=26260
Department for Transport statement:
"This document [the tendered EU Roadworthiness Package'] is a proposal rather than final legislation. As such, all Member States will have the opportunity to negotiate the final legislation and everything within the current document may be subject to change.

The Department has sought views on the proposals from the industry. We will be analysing the proposals to find out what impact they will have on businesses and motorists. We will question rigorously any provisions that imply costs for Government, people or industry and seek to minimise these. We will be taking an active part in the Working Group meetings starting this autumn.

It is still far too early to comment on specifics of the legislation as a number of the proposals could be changed or dropped."
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Time to put away the burning stakes. For now.
 
Gaygle said:
4 pot engines with fart exhausts
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Should I take it off?

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Thank god for that PH article. Now maybe the entire internet can stop getting hysterical over a proposal they clearly never read or understood in the first place. Nobody was going to ban modified or historical cars anyway.
 
Liampope said:
Thank god for that PH article. Now maybe the entire internet can stop getting hysterical over a proposal they clearly never read or understood in the first place. Nobody was going to ban modified or historical cars anyway.
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Gotta love people who come along after the dust has settled and stick the boot in.
 
Am I not allowed to express relief at a bit of common sense at last on this matter? :( It's good to see. OK this place wasn't bad, to be fair, but on other car forum hangouts of mine, only yesterday we were being spammed to sign some moronic petition started by someone else who clearly can't read. So much storm in a teacup!
 
I would support something like:

"No one under age of 21 can own or be insured on a modified vehicle"

That would be glorious... no more ricers with massive exhausts waking me up at 1AM in the morning or spastics with crap subwoofers.
 
Hades said:
Petition here:

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/37784

These don't usually do much good but can't hurt to try.

Probably the same petition that the above poster was getting spammed to join though :D
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That's the one. He starts with...

"The European Commission is proposing to outlaw the use of any modifications and non-original components to historic vehicles by introducing the following legislation"

...which isn't true at all, and ends with...

"The request is that Parliament consider the implications of banning modifications to historic vehicles, and suggest that the EU policy should be changed to closer reflect the sensible use of modifications in keeping with the vehicles historic design and nature"

...which they would obviously do anyway. Like I said, pointless petition by someone who hadn't understood the proposal (not legislation) in the first place. Oh well I dont care it's finished for now :)
 
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