Diesel emission plate limit question

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Paul posted on 10 April 2019

emissions from diesel cars.. why don't you let us testers enter the plate value (where present) when entering the test result

Comment by Derek posted on 14 April 2019

Great idea, Then when the owners take the vehicle to a different station who use the higher default setting this may eventually highlight an obvious cheat opportunity that needs investigating in my opinion.

Comment by Julia (DVSA) posted on 17 April 2019

Hi Derek

Allowing testers to record plate values would not be deemed a reliable source for future tests.

We’re exploring options for obtaining specific vehicle data from the various manufacturers.

and further to the above don't the sn say summat about entering said plate limit in the free text box  when you fail it(which is what ive been doing for 13mnths now and lets face it its only gonna be an issue on fails)?so thatll be ok for this test but not for next year(even with the same guy/garage testing it?) or for when someone else deaths the limit out and tests to default when the punter goes elsewhere?the real problem here is it would give irrefutable evidence that someones pulling a stroke and that it could be proven.this means they would HAVE to investigate it and theres so many moody smoke tests involved that(as ive mentioned in other posts)it would collapse the entire dept.message to dvsa-youve given us a rod to beat ourselves and poor defenceless members of the public with.now YOU try beating yourselves up with it.