And it will fail any visual inspection in the US. In addition to that, any emissions inspection involving the OBD system will flag the lack of DPF and fail you. You do realize that the cars ECU is connected to the filter and the car might not even run unless you do some sort of hack to the system?I don't think these are removable. I Know removing it will fail a MOT in the UK though
I do know that this would happen , we also hav some kind of MOT in Belgium but I would actually take out all the membranes in the DPF and just stay with the stock one without membranes so in visua inspection that wouldn't see apart but then the real question is will your engine not function differently because of "tempering" with the DPF ?and also for my MOT will the results of the co2 emissions change ?And it will fail any visual inspection in the US. In addition to that, any emissions inspection involving the OBD system will flag the lack of DPF and fail you. You do realize that the cars ECU is connected to the filter and the car might not even run unless you do some sort of hack to the system?
that my friend I cant argue with you,The terrible smog in big European cities is increasingly being blamed on the same diesel vehicles that, ironically, governments there have been promoting for the past several decades. I suspect more environmental restrictions will be placed on diesel vehicles in the future, and this very well might include increased exhaust testing during annual inspection requirements.
I would recommend anyone taking off their environmental equipment to keep all of it in the garage, including the ability to reprogram the reprogramming so that it can be put back to factory standards some day.
This is also needed for the owners of vehicles still in warranty in order to keep the warranties valid should something go wrong.