Lynxdiesel Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Quick question, I haven't had an MOT done on a diesel before. (First diesel I have owned) Is it still the smoke test they do, or will my EGR blanking plate cause problems. It runs pretty clean with he plate fitted, every so often I put a load of millers ecomax diesel cleaner in the tank. Should I remove the blanking plate prior to the MOT? 1.8 TDCI so doesn't bring up an EML with the EGR blank plate which is good. What do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney871 Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 You'll be fine. I went through 2 MOT's with a blanking plate fitted on my old mk2 with no problems whatsoever. Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomsFocus Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Just a smoke density test, EGR blank will have no effect on it at all. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iantt Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 As above, keep it blanked. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis the meance Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Had mine moted last Thursday with blanking plate no probs leave it blanked mate 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salsheikh Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 no issues with mine either 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxdiesel Posted March 1, 2016 Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 Thanks for your responses. I'll leave it blanked :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simcor Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 As above diesels have never been tested for emissions just a smoke opacity test. People always say their diesel passed an emissions test but it's not emissions like a petrol it is purely a test on the smoke output to check the density of smoke produced. You will only fail the smoke test if there is something wrong with the car and it chucks out a lot of smoke under hard acceleration. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FatHead1979 Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 As above, passed 3 MOT's with a blanking plate in on a Lynx engine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee_82 Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Aye, I don't have the figures any more but the smoke density figures got better after my EGR was "fixed" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJD83 Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 Blanking the EGR will give you a cleaner burn hence you producing less smoke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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