Warning re exhaust systems.

[FROSTY:Me]

I just saw the latest missive from LTSA.
It seems that in 6 months time all vehicles origonally fitted with catylitic converters in their vehicles will be reqired to have them fitted in order to pass a WOF.
Clearly aimed at the boy racer set with their drainpipe exhausts this could have a nasty effect on us bikers.

[jimbo600]

not really. Just slap on the original for the WoF

[Motu]

That will be grandfathered and come in with the new emission rules - there are too many vehicles that have had their Cats removed and new ones are not available.Cat converters are not a new thing y'know,they have been around for decades.There will be a year,and it won't be 1953,and I doubt it will be 2008 either.

[James Deuce]

What that man up there said, plus, the Z750 doesn't have a Cat fitted for the NZ market.

[onearmedbandit]

That's if you have the original. Which I do. But then my bike never came out with a cat, so I'm sweet anyway.

[FROSTY:Me]

That will be grandfathered and come in with the new emission rules - there are too many vehicles that have had their Cats removed and new ones are not available.Cat converters are not a new thing y'know,they have been around for decades.There will be a year,and it won't be 1953,and I doubt it will be 2008 either.

The indication is that all vehicles fitted with it. No mention of a cutoff year.
You're probably right when it comes down to it but I do wonder how the guys with non factory sounding/looking exhausts are gonna go.

[bucket boy]

just gutt your converter out looks like its still there these guys that pass these stupid laws there will always be people that will get around it

[Motu]

The indication is that all vehicles fitted with it. No mention of a cutoff year.

I'm pretty sure this will come in with the new emission rules - ALL vehicles registered after that date WILL have to comply at date of entry.....and forever after.But almost impossible to police on the existing fleet,as others have pointed out NZ new versions seldom had Cats,yet the same model sourced from an other country would have a converter.I gutted a cat last week....who is to know? O2 sensor before the Cat,no way the computer can pick it up.....emission testing at WoF was dropped as being far too costly and unworkable....ain't gunna happen here.What will happen is a non standard exhaust rule,not OE and you fail.That one can be made to work because it is visual.....and that is all a WoF is,a visual check.

[HRT]

just gutt your converter out looks like its still there these guys that pass these stupid laws there will always be people that will get around it

Fair few workshop will have those digital IR thermometers which you just need to take t he car for a short drive (which you do for a warrant anyway) and see if the cat is getting hot. If you gut it out then its not going to. Fail.

The proposal a long time ago was for new vehicles coming into the country, and anything after the start or 1991 that had one originally fitted would be required to have one fitted.

And as for there not being cats available for all cars, there are universal fit ones for any size exhaust on a car. Cant say I know if they have much in the way of bike stuff.

[James Deuce]

The funny thing is a catalytic converter is about the least ecologically friendly thing you can stick on a car.

[HRT]

Or the least friendly to take off and throw away

[mitchilin]

were free.Fresh is best though.

[Subike]

cut and thow away
rofl
they are the higest value scrap item on a car,
cut them open and gut them out?
you just tossed $100 worth of recoverable material.
and the people who buy it come to you.\
mmm toss them my way if you want lol

[imdying]

Meh, so I stop getting warrants... big deal :shrug:

[onearmedbandit]

No WoF = no rego. You sir, will become an outlaw. Like that guy with long hair who rode a HD and had that American Indian cop as a friend on TV on friday nights years ago. Renegade was it?