Reply 20 of 25, by cyclone3d
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wrote:I work as a MOT tester here, and being in Devon the English Riviera there are a huge number of Golf Mk4's, new Bettle's and T4 van's that frankly are only driven by dickweeds. To get them through the emissions you have to get them REALLY hot, this involves running them at 4000 RPM for 10 minutes or so before the Catalysers get hot enough in an enclosed space. I have mild emphysema, the combo is not a good one!
Never understood why the Golf IV was soo loved, the handling is soggy, they are heavy and a pig to work on. And the smaller 1.4 & 1.6 engine was total rubbish. As for the T4, terrible vehicles, rusty, weak and slow. Yet people pay a fortune for them. It's all brand snobbery, funny really.
And if people were able to actually tune their cars like they used to be able to do before absolutely everything was computer controlled, it is generally really easy to tune to pass for emissions.
The thing about tuning to pass emissions almost always reduces power and fuel mileage.
This is coming from somebody who grew up with my family having older vehicles and tuning stuff myself when I got older.
Once a year we would tune to pass emissions and then tune afterwards so the vehicles actually ran properly.
The whole system is a freaking joke.