I've spoken to a good friend of mine and he assures me that yes the reading of the emmisions will be slightly higher it will still pass an mot ... Time will tell

Your good friend does'nt know what he is talking about. These turbo cars are touch and go on some sports cat's let alone a Decat.

Has he experience on decat MOT passing on these 1.8T cars???

Plus new reg's came in in March 2013 that states if car was built with a cat from manufacturer it must be fitted for MOT regardless of passing emissions or not.

Any MOT'ers on here that are in the midlands area that would pass a Octavia VRS with a decat??

Are you serious buddy, As mentioned it is now not a legal MOT without a cat so you are asking folks on a forum to break the MOT rules...

I'm sat doing my 5 year MOT refresher now. A vehicle must look like it has a cat fitted if fitted dfrom new and pass the required emissions test for the age and year of that vehicle.

The mot place I used last year have super powers, they managed to check the emissions 3 days before doing the mot, a mean feat seeing mot day was the first time I've ever been there lol

At least this year it was done the same day lol

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The full version of the MOT testers guide is available from the VOSA website and has been for sometime if peeps needed specific info.

be careful i bought one of these:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SKODA-OCTAVIA-1-9-TDI-STAINLESS-STEEL-EXHAUST-DECAT-DE-CAT-PIPE-1998-2004-/230817114916?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&fits=Car+Make%3ASkoda%7CModel%3AOctavia%7CCars+Type%3A1.9+TDI&hash=item35bdc5ab24

looked great, didnt fit well, and when we took it off it hadnt actually mated with the turbo outlet corectly. there was about a 10mm mismatch top and bottom, due to the gasket, which created an oval shape for the gasses to get through. also there was a nats ck between the heat shield on the stearing rack.

Did you buy it for a TDI?

I was looking at those for my 1.9 TDI.

My bro has an ebay 2 piece d-cat fitted to his 1.8t golf. I just take it off every year for mot and put his cat back in. Not hard to do. Only a couple of bolts and change lambdas over

My bro has an ebay 2 piece d-cat fitted to his 1.8t golf. I just take it off every year for mot and put his cat back in. Not hard to do. Only a couple of bolts and change lambdas over

This is what i do to...

4 bolts, couple of clamps and 2 lambda's.

Just need to get car high enough and spray bolts prior to removal

until you get stopped by vosa, and fined for not having a road legal vehicle. Where i live near the dartford bridge/tunnel crossing they stop cars all the time. Also someone raised the point about insurance and their view on a car that doesnt comply with mot regs. I wonder if they would take issue if the car was involved in an accident?

Dont mean to sound old man about it, but i wouldnt run one, sports cat all the way, no messing around at mot time changing it over.

Sure u just get insurance with the likes of green light that cover mods and its usually not any extra.

they wont cover mods that are against road regs, ie all cars that had a cat fitted from standard have to have cat fitted, only pre 90s ish cars don't need them, like my mk2 golf, but now not having a cat is an mot failure, i recon your insurance could deem the car as not road worthy/legal