Yesterday, 03:07 PM
Here we have required yearly check ups and an actual particle/emissions measurement on the exhaust is required. Look at the Volkswagen diesel-gate, where the manufacturer built in software to run cleanly whenever it was tested but dirty otherwise. Quite interesting. My car (5cil turbo diesel), has an ECU upgrade that added ±20% to stock horses, ±10% to torque, open airfilter and improved exhaust system (that may need to be replaced by the stock system at time of the check up :redsmiling:). Passes the test every year.
I think the way it's done here is not the freedom way but it's reasonable. Everything is grandfathered in, if it's legal when it's first put on the road, it remains legal. I do pay a high tax to drive a diesel (about $150 a month (!), triple the price to run the same vehicle on gas), but diesel fuel is about 10% cheaper here and my car weighs almost two tons, I run between 30-40mpg depending on my foot (And I drive a lot, easily 35kmi a year).
But I'm all there with you, many of these environmental tests don't really make sense. Especially on vehicles that were designed after they were put in place, as they were designed to pass those tests. Does it actually make sense ? I don't know. Cars have become thousands of times cleaner already, literally. The newest developed diesel engines put out pretty much only water and co2 at the back.
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