remmington
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Post by remmington on Sept 7, 2021 7:11:07 GMT 1
For the fist time even in my life - I saw on the main round a bout into our town - DVSA doing road side checks on vans upto 3.5ton.
Police waving vans over into a slip road off the round a bout.
From a distance - it looked like the they had smoke testing kit with them.
I have seen DVSA (Vosa) pulling lorries over before on the roadside - and I have seen them dipping fuel on carparks (cars). But I have never seen them smoke testing light commercial vehicles before.
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Post by Karl on Sept 11, 2021 19:45:16 GMT 1
That’s funny because they don’t carry out smoke tests at the DVSA test stations as far as I know
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Post by remmington on Sept 12, 2021 12:20:00 GMT 1
That’s funny because they don’t carry out smoke tests at the DVSA test stations as far as I know Someone local told me it was something to do with this...? Air Quality Management Areas
A number of borough councils have been designated ‘Air Quality Management Areas’. This means the council can test vehicles at the roadside and issue fixed penalties to drivers whose vehicles fail.
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Post by valhalla on Sept 13, 2021 0:29:46 GMT 1
They are probably just running free-accel smoke tests for this roadside test (FAS) and nothing else.
If they tried to do much beyond that on a modern diesel, you could drive a coach-and-horses through the results that they obtained, as the conditions under which the vehicle was homologated could not be reproduced at roadside.
So, all they are doing is doubling-up on the MoT test, just to make sure that the vehicle has not drifted inbetween inspections.
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Post by remmington on Sept 13, 2021 18:24:13 GMT 1
They are probably just running free-accel smoke tests for this roadside test (FAS) and nothing else. If they tried to do much beyond that on a modern diesel, you could drive a coach-and-horses through the results that they obtained, as the conditions under which the vehicle was homologated could not be reproduced at roadside. So, all they are doing is doubling-up on the MoT test, just to make sure that the vehicle has not drifted inbetween inspections.
This was my assumption...  |
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