Annoying van fumes.. Can I report to police/dvla

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There's a van that picks someone up from the carpark where I leave my car every day. As it happens I'm behind this van 50% of the time for about 75% of my journey home.

While I am stuck behind him, I can't open my windows or run my air circulator due to the horrific fumes this thing puts out, especially going up a hill.

Can I report him to someone as there is no way this can be mot pass worthy and it annoys me when it's hot and I can't even open the windows without being hit by acrid smokey fumes?
 
You have a T5 can't u just overtake him and be on your way :p
I'm seeing more and more diesels lately leave thick clouds of black smoke just floating in the air for ages it's quite scary. Still waiting for the government to realise they have made a mistake with the whole Eco diesel crap that's polluting our city's.
 
Dav4 said:
You have a T5 can't u just overtake him and be on your way :p
I'm seeing more and more diesels lately leave thick clouds of black smoke just floating in the air for ages it's quite scary. Still waiting for the government to realise they have made a mistake with the whole Eco diesel crap that's polluting our city's.
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As someone who spends most of the working day in a car, its crazy how many times I flick the air re-circ on to avoid a plume of black smoke coming from the vehicle in front of me.

Saying that, I'm doing this in the company provided diesel so I guess I'm part of the problem. :o
 
MonkeyMan said:
As someone who spends most of the working day in a car, its crazy how many times I flick the air re-circ on to avoid a plume of black smoke coming from the vehicle diesel :p in front of me.

Saying that, I'm doing this in the company provided diesel so I guess I'm part of the problem. :o
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Im noticing it more and more, i vote to charge them stinky diesels £500 road tax to get them to buy petrols instead:D
 
Dav4 said:
I'm seeing more and more diesels lately leave thick clouds of black smoke just floating in the air for ages it's quite scary. Still waiting for the government to realise they have made a mistake with the whole Eco diesel crap that's polluting our city's.
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More and more people removing their DPF's sadly due to price of them failing, or having bought a diesel for wrong use case.
 
Dav4 said:
You have a T5 can't u just overtake him and be on your way :p
I'm seeing more and more diesels lately leave thick clouds of black smoke just floating in the air for ages it's quite scary. Still waiting for the government to realise they have made a mistake with the whole Eco diesel crap that's polluting our city's.
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I'm pretty sure they're well aware of the situation, but letting us all slowly die is a lot more graceful than going "lol we ballsed up, soz, diesel bad k". Diesel needs to be put behind us. It's for trucks and tractors, bloody awful stuff.
 
I was actually thinking the exact same thing yesterday when leaving work. Followed 2 vans which constantly spewed out black smoke and then a Jag X type which was so bad you couldn't see the numberplate for half the journey such was the cloud coming out the back.

My diesel doesn't have DPF as its so old and if i've babied it around for a few hundred miles and then give it a boot there'll be a modest amount of black smoke but nothing like the ones i followed last night, dunno if they're all remapped or just broken?
 
I hate being stuck behind a smelly diesel, it is pretty much the only thing that triggers my asthma now
 
Nothing wakes you up quite like a faceful of thick diesel soot on your commute, it's especially pleasant when you're already feeling like a boil in the bag ham and trying to get some fresh air in your helmet.
 
Armageus said:
More and more people removing their DPF's sadly due to price of them failing, or having bought a diesel for wrong use case.
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It has to be the dpf removal and remap doesn't it as the smoke coming out of a lot of newish vans and cars lately is ridiculous and dangerous for our health.
Should a car fail it's Mot if the dpf is removed? As many drivers seem to still do it. They should be fined.
 
Dav4 said:
Should a car fail it's Mot if the dpf is removed? As many drivers seem to still do it. They should be fined.
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The problem is that the MOT requirement is literally a visual check for the DPF being present (even though it's innards may have been removed), and a smoke test that is relatively easy to pass:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa...63018/diesel-particulate-filters-guidance.pdf
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa...-standards-for-road-vehicles-18th-edition.pdf
 
Selfish kind of people who turn their cars into rolling coal death machines, must be. See a few of them around but thankfully not many round here.
Did see a particularly stupid case on a track day a while ago, some Alfa race car chucking out such a ridiculous smoke plume I could barely see through it. Complained about the guy and shortly after he was packing up and leaving, I guess others had also complained. Why would you turn up in a car that runs like that!?
 
It's not the soot/smoke that's the problem, it's the gasses. Which a DPF has no bearing on.
 
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