Safe Speed Forums

You could leave your chip in, come MOT time. VOSA won't care so long as it meets the MOT emissions limits at idle and under no load. Most chipped cars ought to manage that with ease. Of course, there's already talk about clamping down on "modders" even now. Just at present, there's lots of dicussion in the corridoors of power about how they're going to stop people putting "proper" tyres on cars that had "fuel saver" tyres as original equipment and owed part of their zero road tax to these low rolling resistance (and grip!) tyres!

That makes a lot of sense...after all we don't want SAFETY on the roads do we?

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My views do not represent Safespeed but those of a driver who has driven for 39 yrs, in all conditions, at all times of the day & night on every type of road and covered well over a million miles, so knows a bit about what makes for safety on the road,what is really dangerous and needs to be observed when driving and quite frankly, the speedo is way down on my list of things to observe to negotiate Britain's roads safely, but I don't expect some fool who sits behind a desk all day to appreciate that.

At the risk of further topic drift, has anybody noticed how many modern cars have tiny windscreen wash bottles?

In the good old days some must have been well over a gallon and would last most of the winter!

Nowadays they need to be checked weekly or even daily in poor weather

I guess its part of the effort to keep the "Test" weight down in order to shave off that extra gram or two CO2 in order to squeze into the next tax band down.

Again, not too good for safety!

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"The road to a police state is paved with public safety legislation"