Originally Posted by
big mac
if the vehicle was registered on or before 1st of august 1992 it does not have to have cat test get the tester to check the manual mate
...just my luck I'm afraid, even though the car's build date was June 1992, it was registered September 1992...I've tried all sorts of avenues here, but the car is down in VOSA's computer system as requiring a Cat Test

and according to the MOT guy that's it, no loop holes...it must achieve 0.5% CO (or less at Idle) and around 0.3% CO and lambda 1.000-1.030 at 3000rpm.