Hi Kelly / Chris

I just wondered if you would care to comment on the new MOT rules regarding DPF removal

"An announcement this week by the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) highlighted the scale of the problems faced by the motor industry when it admitted that some firms are offering services to remove the factory-fitted diesel particulate filter (DPF), claiming it will improve fuel economy, when it is an offence to drive a vehicle that has been modified this way.

An investigation by Clean Air in London (CAL) earlier in 2013 showed that tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of motorists in the UK may be driving diesel vehicles illegally, face losing their car insurance and risk being found guilty of the criminal offence of fraud – many without realising it. Honest motorists purchasing a second-hand diesel vehicle are particularly at risk"

Taken from the EU website

Will you be warning Motor Codes members that the removal of DPF's is not legal and how does that relate to Motor Codes members who will carry on removing them? in effect making the customers vehicle unfit to drive on the UK roads (emission regulations) and invalidating their insurance

Peter