how do you pass mot with de-cat?
 

i know you can just put it back on and a dodgey garage but is there any other way?

does anybody know anyone that would pass it in newcastle?

recat for it or dodgey garage thats only ways i cnthink of

nope i dont think so, i have just took mine off tonight, as M.O.T is tomorrow but its blowing at my manifold and cat join, so need to sort that out in the morning! good luck with the M.O.T Matey!

i heard off reading threads on sax-p, you could pay the mot bloke a £10 or so to use the emissions off another car ftw :p

i wouldnt expect or dare even ask the above however! i have (very rarely) heard of some peoples passing as theyve taken it in after getting it really hot (i.e a thrashing beforehand)

although the reality of it is it probably wont happen and you mayaswell just put the cat back on

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In an ideal world a saxo wouldnt need a cat to pass. IF it was running perfect etc.... cats are almost a security measure in most cases.

couldnt you get a decatted car mapped well so it isnt running to rich?

get an afr gauge to see if its running to rich

same here but people do it, thats why i put it in my post :)

ive heard of saxos passing with a de-cat. im sure a lad on here said his did. haha and dont offer an extra 10er to MOT to pass you will get laughed at. if u rekon its guna fail you should jsut fit the cat back onto it.

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why would you want a dodgy mot ?? lol

no its illegal.

Only way it could pass is if the engine is running mint and really hot to knock the emissions down, may scrape through.

But my VTS when it was in its prime with the Cat in wasnt far off failing.

god knows, rather have a genuine one knowing my car was nice and safe to drive.

Fair enough little things but such things as fucked suspension are a no no for me.

Puts others at risk.

Atm I am looking for a garage to fit my raceland manifold onto my car which would effectively de-cat it. I was thinking..... is it possible to fit the mk1 standard VTR exhaust system with the cat included, onto my mk2 when the olde MOT comes around

My 32k mile VTR failed the emissions test with no CAT in... it wasn't a million miles away but still failed.

You can do mate, yeah - saves swapping the manifold over.

I really find it hard to believe that cars or saxos have got through MOTs with no CAT. This is because I have seen what a car needs to put out to pass and what it puts out with no CAT.

Yes.

seen 2 cars recently pass mots with no cat
one was done legally just not sure how he managed it tbh was just withn the limits

the second was a cammed vts and had to get a dodgy garage to sort it

just had an mot on my vtr with decat supersprint centre section and backbox, the bloke wasnt gonna bother with the emmisions but does it any way just to see and it flew through. emmisions were fine.

mine legitly passed a mot with a decat christ knows how but we discovered when we put it on the ole emissions tester after we played with the timing that she was running 0.3 and my brother said it would go through and it did