Originally Posted by
PeterRST
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...
I wasnt saying I thought the remapping industry will die out, they'll just find ways to spoof the tests and make the MOT man think its still standard or will do like the bluefin where you can take it on and off.
Its home modified stuff like my nova that will be impossible to create undo new legislation (and rightly so) and the rules relating to that sort of thing have been changing since 1998 with the introduction of the sva