Removal of the DPF for performance gains must account for all of 5% of the removals.

 

The other 95% of removals are to prevent older cars being written off due the prohibitively and unnecessarily expensive replacement of the DPF of circa £1,500...

 

...for a component designed to last approx 100,000 miles.

 

If it was a £500 filter then fair enough but when you are faced with two choices on a 5 year old PD170 vRS...

 

1) Remove the DPF's insides and code the sensors - £450.

2) Replace the DPF for a new one - £1,500.

 

Or break an otherwise perfectly good car for spares? I'll take my chances with the MOT and the insurance thanks.

 

The scaremongering about MOT failures has been put to bed here...

 

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/297243-dpf-removal-check-to-be-part-of-uk-mot-test-from-february-2014/page-1?hl=+dpf

Edited 29 December, 201312 yr by silver1011

there is also the fact that reputable companies like shark etc will have stopped doing them by now if it really was what the scaremongers would have use believe

Best thing to do in regards to the 2014 regulations would be to delete it but have it modified so it's visually present therefore it should pass its emissions test and a visual inspection, the 1.9tdi with no cat can pass an mot but unsure with the dpf, just means that to the naked eye you have a dpf, someone may of done this before, there are places in Scotland who do this

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