I'm not too sure we should be worried. If you read it, it does not say that vehicles will have to meet type approval in the Roadworthyness Tests, just that it has to pass the Road worthyness Test and that all components are safe.
Obviously what is safe is open to debate.
However, some of the proposals have already been implemented and others have been announced. For example, you can't pass an MOT with an Air Bag light on or an ABS light on now. They have announced that older cars won't need an MOT for the same reasons listed in this document.
So it could be that it has been a little mis-interpreted.
I don't know.
We could do with the AA or RAC or some other motoring organisation getting their solicitors onto the case to state what it really does mean.
I can't imagine it would meant the end of modified motors. Just think of the economic result - no more modified car mags - that's a massive industry on it's own, no more car tuning companies except a few as motorsport doesn't suport all of their income I shouldn't think, no more tuning parts for sale so no more production of them or the shops and mail order / internet firms that sell the parts.
It would not get the country spending, that's for sure - isn't that what the country needs and the government want - cutting a whole industry out at the stroke of a pen would be stupid for the government to consider in this country, let alone all over Europe.
I tell you what though - my bank balance will go up if it is true! Or will it, how much is an M3 now days??? If you can't mod your motor - you'd have to buy the nearest thing to a modified motor out of the show room!
Anyway, can someone remind me why we are in the EU? When did I vote for anyone in Brussels to tell me what I can and can't do?
Right, time to step down off the soap box, I'm getting dizzy up here anyway!
Kirkynut
The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win - Edgar Watson Howe.
facade wrote: Double Bugger!, looks like they will extend historic status to 30 year old cars and exempt them from testing, I just sold my 1978 MGB as it wasn't historic status :sick:
:laugh: Well it makes the TR7 I bought recently look a lot better- it is also from '78, the jeep is fast approaching 30 years old too, less road tax is always welcome- even if it is a small part of running a vehicle!
atb
Mike
