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I'm pretty sure the legal implications wouldn't put most people who are intent on removing the DPF off, Most of the time its done for performance reasons along with remapping to gain extra BHP, I doubt very much these people bother to tell their insurance companies that the car has been remapped either.
As far as i'm concerned if I saw a suspect DPF during an MOT test, as long as it wasn't just a straight through pipe and it looked like a DPF I would let it go, as long as i've made a note on the advisory section then i'm in the clear.
The rules and regulations for motor vehicles thesedays are very particular and complicated, I'm sure without even knowing it every one of us at some point has broken one or more of the rules or guidelines no matter how law abiding we think we are.
have a read through the .Gov website on road vehicle regulations..Its ridiculous..and a lot of it contradicts the VOSA rules too,
I remember when I used to ride a bike with a slightly smaller number plate than was strictly allowed, at the time I used to carry a photocopy of the testers manual number plate section, because there was no mention of size in there, only pages of rules and regs regarding the layout of the characters, the spacing between them, the font allowed etc...but no mention whatsoever about the size, and this was my get out of jail free card whenever the police stopped me, because they would show me in their highway rule book a section regarding size, which my number plate clearly fell foul of, and i would argue that the MOT didn't check the size, and as a motorist the only checks our vehicles have to comply with annually is the government approved MOT test.
I got away with it a few times until the wording was changed a few years later, but by that time I had grown up anyway :)
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