Monza wrote:
Some mystakes written here :
In UK, the Atom pass the IVA to be registered, no need to be Euro 4 for it. The IVA system is the UK one and each EC country has its own individual approval system, no EC harmonisation for this apart from some specific rules.
You wrote that Ariel says that the Atom was euro4 compliant , where ?
Sorry I don't say that Ariel says ....
The The European emission standard says that, e.g. my car with his first registration in 2010, must fulfill the EURO 4 requirements.
And it doesn't - sorry that's a fact.
If I buy now in 2017 a brand new Atom, this car must fulfill EURO 6 (starting at 01.01.2015).
The Atom and Nomad built with the Honda k24 and this engine has Euro 5. And that's why new Ariels get no registration in most of the EU countries.
Maybe you are right, I know nothing about the MOT tests in UK.
The equivalent of MOT tests' that we have to pass after some years has nothing common with the real Euro 4 exhaust test.
Yes, correct. But starting with 01.01.2018 here in Germany the TÜV (MOT) must do a real exhaust test on every car. This is a consequence of the exhaust emission scandal. Another consequence is that the engineers get a drastic punishment if they let pass such cars.
The absolut crazy thing is that the TÜV engineers tells me, that they have made tests in the few last weeks with brand new cars and they failed the new emision test.
With the stock mapping, a hot catalyst (that's important) and an O2 sensir working well, all the atoms will continue to pass the ''Mot' test.
That's correct too and my car pass this emission test in November.
I need 4 visits by different TÜV engineers to pass TÜV (MOT) test, 500 Euro and 800 km driving.
They ALL tell me that 2019, TÜV is every 2 year here, no chance to pass the tests because the car don't fulfill the Euro-4-hardware-requirements.
So lets see.