Originally Posted by
Chip
That sort of reclassification after a depature from the approved type is very expensive, worth it if dealing with large numbers of identical vehicles like in your example, but a total nightmare to try and do on a one off basis.
Our country has signed up to all sorts of carbon and emissions based treaties and in order to satisfy our end of the deal we have to be seen to be cracking down on people making depatures from approved specification which may increase carbon emissions etc.
I don't think the industry will die out. In Germany it has always been mandatory for "chips" to be approved by TÜV and the changes had to be entered in the cars documents. There's still loads of them driving around and a chip is generally not much more expensive than in the UK.
After all, a full emissions test by TÜV for a single car/engine/bhp combination is about 800 - 1000 pounds. So if a tuner sells 100 chips, that's neglectable, really.
No reason to panic, IMO but another bit of modifying freedom (that we never had, hence the signature
) lost...
