Hi Sean

That's a good post and probably sums up the current state of play regarding the removal of a DPF's

It does put things in perspective, in the USA VW are going to have to buy back 600,000 vehicles because they will be unable (or impossible) to fix the excessive emission, but in the EU they may have found a legal loop hole that gets them a get out of jail card

If it ever goes to court I am sure VW will bring up the fact that although their vehicles emit higher emissions than they should, they are going ask questions as to why the EU and their respective Governments have allowed probably 100,000 diesel (or possibly millions) vehicles across the EU (plus non EU states) to have their DPF's removed and remapped by Independent Garages causing excessive amount of soot into the air we breath, should they not be held to account as well? I am sure they will print your post off as evidence that it goes on

It could take many years of legal wrangling before VW get around to a fix for their dodgy vehicles (allegedly), will customers want them fixed? do customers care?........just fine VW a few billion for deception and move on

With regards to aircraft I totally agree, plenty of talk about vehicle pollution, but the aircraft emissions are always kept off the TV, probably the biggest threat to our health on the planet. I watched a program the other week that showed the Virgin flight that was on its way to Las Vagas but had to return due to a landing gear fault, that was not before it circled Sussex to Devon dumping 100 tons of un-burnt aviation fuel into the atmosphere ready for millions to breath this carcinogenic stuff in....terrible really, but this info is swept under the carpet to protect the extremely lucrative air transport market, lets bash the motor trade, much easier

Peter

PS: Regarding our MOT diesel emission testing, it will take years and great expense to equip testing stations with new sophisticated test equipment, by the time it's off and running most of the Euro 5 vehicles including ones with DPF removed will be on the scrap heap, Euro 6 will need the new technology for testing, but may not be so easy to remove DPF and remap, the Telematics will tell the dealer someone's been poking around in my software......HELP!!