Armageddon for modified car owners

I would like to see that enforced strictly. There is a huge number of modified cars in the UK and not just **** box fiestas and corsas. What are they going to do, deem every car with non standard Wheels/Exhaust/Brakes etc... as unroadworthy? I will eat my hat if this is enforecd in any way other than "any new car purchased from now has to conform to the new law" otherwise it will be chaos.
 
This had to be billy bull surely?
Getting somecars road legal in this instance would cost sooo much money. What of all the skylines and supras out there with 30k of mods?
And what of all the people who tune cars etc for their livelyhood.
This will never happen.
 
Given past antics of the beaurocrats in Brussels, I would not be surprised if this happened.

As already said, I'd like to see it enforced by our already non-existant traffic cops....
 
Well, unless someone steps in it becomes a law on October 13. I don't think it'd need to be enforced by cops, it'd be something that was rolled into the MOT test.

This is bad too:

"introduce a definition for a roadworthiness test that components of the vehicle must comply with characteristics at the time of first registration. This may prevent most modifications to vehicles without further approval of the vehicle. (this will apply to many components and to all types of vehicle)"

Yes, historic vehicles are exempt. NEW definition of historic:

“(7) ‘vehicle of historic interest’ means any vehicle which fulfils all the following conditions :
*It was manufactured at least 30 years ago,
*It is maintained by use of replacement parts which reproduce the historic components of the vehicle;
*It has not sustained any change in the technical characteristics of its main components such as engine, brakes, steering or suspension and
*It has not been changed in its appearance;"
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I'm not sure about the trials and tribulations of approval and so on - it's been a long day and I can barely focus on the screen so I will have a closer look at it tomorrow.
 
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Well if thats the case DMS, Evolve, Superchips, Revo, Thorney (proably a good thing), Jabba sport, Supersprint, Hayward and Scott......... etc... are about to hit hard times. I can imagine it will be the most flouted law in the UK.
 
This is not going to happen. It essentially renders as much as 15% of cars useless. If this goes down to alloy/exhaust/air filter level.
Also in certain cars far more?
How many skylines, type rs, 182s ,mr2s and silvias does this make ilegal? As much as 60% depending on model?
 
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This is not going to happen. It essentially renders as much as 15% of cars useless. If this goes down to alloy/exhaust/air filter level.
Also in certain cars far more?
How many skylines, type rs, 182s ,mr2s and silvias does this make ilegal? As much as 60% depending on model?
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This kind of stuff is inevitable at some point and various elements of it have been in the works for a long time - how much you can dodge I'm not sure. Other countries are already much, much stricter than we are.
 
But seriously this measure would put 100s of companies. Both tuners and parts manufacturers under.
Hundreds of thousands of cars will suddenly turn unroadworthy its ridiculous!
Why isnt there a petition going alrwady for this with easily a half a million names on it?
 
Surely changing alloys outright isnt going to be covered by something like this, what if you want a set of winter tyres? How about retrofitting parking sensors? Seems ridiculous.

Hawker
 
Thing is many modifications are for good reason.
What about lpg conversions?
Or the billet steel pulley have thats designed not to &&&& my cambelt on every change
?
The brake conversions that make many cars safer from a technical perspective.
Etc etc etc.
Basically you cant own a impreza in 2013 seeing as about 90% have mods
 
EU/EC/Brussels/whatever nonsense taking over again. Clear off and go boss someone else about. Can't see this happening but then again nothing surprises me anymore.
 
Why are they even doing this? I'm not normally one to say this but... haven't they got better things to be focussing their energy on?

For example, the €10,320,106,100,000 worth of debt the EU has?
 
I can see some sort of step towards mods needing to meet approved quality standards....thinking along the lines of TUV approval as already exists in Germany.

But an outright ban on any modifications...well I can think of more important things the government needs to look at sorting out, frankly!

Even if we stick with motoring policy - I'd rather see efforts to reform and improve the motoring insurance industry (both the number of uninsured drivers, inflated claim charges through excessive charges for car hire, huge legal wrangling and the like, and spurious injury claims), than this.

As mentioned - what happens to all the 'tuners' up and down the country who make the majority of their cash from modifications, if you outlaw them outright?
 
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