Comment by Arainach
17 hours ago
In practice, no, you can't. Certainly not without enormous costs such as mandatory regular vehicle inspections.
17 hours ago
In practice, no, you can't. Certainly not without enormous costs such as mandatory regular vehicle inspections.
I don't think "enormous costs" is a strong argument here. The annual MOT is usually under £50, and that includes a fairly comprehensive roadworthiness check and emissions check. A stronger argument would be that a car owner could change some settings on their car specially to pass the emissions check, and then set them back to dirty afterwards each year.
An MOT is a cost to every driver every year - significant in money and in time - plus the cost of running the infrastructure to provide the testing. All so that a few people can tune engines? No thanks.