Exhaust hydrocarbon test in MoT
1st November 1990, Page 91
1st November 1990
Page 91
Page 91, 1st November 1990
— Exhaust hydrocarbon test in MoT
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Keywords :
Gases, Car Safety, Mot Test, Motoring Taxation In The United Kingdom, Carbon Monoxide, Carbon, Politics
• Cecil Parkinson has announced that the Government intends to introduce an exhaust hydrocarbon test into the MoT — but not until a year after the Carbon Monoxide (CO) test is introduced, the date of which is still not decided.
Only checking CO in the MoT was criticised as too weak and open to abuse.
However, Alan Smith secretary of the Garage Equipment Association, says: "I don't think the government has got it right. It's nonsense to do this in a piecemeal fashion."
Stan Chapman of Tune Up says: "If the Government doesn't get its act together it will be overtaken by EC legislation.