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The conversion is not illegal though is it. Anyone is free to put whatever engine in whatever car legally.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike
Failing to declare an engine swap voids your insurance leaving you with points and a fine for no insurance, not for having swapped your engine.
Likewise the tax, you get fined and back tax for no paying the right class or get done for fraud but it's not because the engine swap is illegal.
Semantics yes, but an important distinction.
It is against the law to have incorrect information on the registration document though, so in that respect failure to declare is again illegal (so not just for insurance).
But in terms of the physical stuff, agreed its still a case of do what you like!
I wonder if the goverment are trying to make some form of ECU controlled speeding/driving device kinda like the black box on planes but for cars.
This could be used for well pretty much all industry jobsworths so not allowing you to tamper with the ECU they are able to screw us further?
Kinda like owning a knife is legal but stabbing someone isn't lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Jack
I think you are onto something there rexy, tied into sat nav of sorts (read speed monitoring GPS device) so won't let you go over 30 in a 30 zone and more than 70 on a motorway etc
There is almost no way to stop someone from fiddling with an electronic device's setup... There will/would be ways to get round things.
Also no one (well hardly anyone) would buy a car knowing it was spied on/controlled from elsewhere, so older cars would be more desirable etc and new car sales would fall off the face of the earth. Even making it compulsory would fail because a system would cost atleast a grand per car and I'm sure any gvot would charge the end user, plus a subscription fee too no doubt.... its a FAIL and will never happen unless all cars got nuked off the planet and we started again from scratch lol
i agree there. if any govt. attempted to watch every single car, or even put tachograph technology into them, there would be a new govt elected next time. but, its the sort of thing that politicians would love to do, especially labour with their obsession with railways.....[how do we get to the effing station??[why waste all that space on a rail-tracks when you can get way more freight & people on a road with the same footprint?? etc]
but, the british govt has plenty of previous history of screwing up massive computer networks that 2 blokes & a supply of beverages could set up in a fortnight (NHS, police, all civil service depts) so it wouldn't happen easily
Someone call my name? lolQuote:
Originally Posted by mowgli
hmmmmm..... goes to look at my tax return & mutter...
thats crap they have no way of testing, and most cars that have had a good remap actually have lower emissions.