Tim
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 Was just emailed this...
In the news:
"Major steps will be taken to make it illegal to modify a car in any way
without getting ISO10403 accreditation for every non-standard part fitted
and only after it has been fitted by a qualified automotive engineer".
These new rules are expected to be in place by the end of the year and
anyone with non standard parts, or parts fitted by non qualified persons,
will be given six months to return their car to standard or face a fine of
£1000 per part.
This will include any performance enhancing modifications and also other
areas such as window tints, stickers and anything that could adversely
affect the manufactures performance and safety specifications.
An insurance spokesman from the AA said: “Its about time we put an end to all the dangerous and life threatening modifications that these young and inexperienced drivers are doing to their cars. It’s clear that the modifications they do are causing more accidents and thefts and therefore
pushing up insurance premiums for other more experienced drivers. We have been pushing for this for a long time and will soon refuse to insure anyone even with minor modifications such as alloy wheels and air filters, if they are not fitted by professionals or do not conform to the new ISO standards. The rest of the insurance industry will also follow suit.”
This extreme change comes after pressure to the government from the public against the ‘boy racers’ that ruin their town centre car parks on a weekly basis. One local said; “If these new laws come into place they will no longer have anything to show off and will hopefully find something else to do.”
The move has also been encouraged by many police forces across the country. When contacted they released the following statement. “We believe this is about time, we want to make modifying a car as socially unacceptable as drink driving and speeding. There is no need to change the way a car looks of performs, that’s down to the manufacture to develop and get right, not bolt on parts from your local Half*rds. Soon we will have the powers to immediately stop and ticket any car that we believe has been altered from factory specifications.
All was not good however; the car industry in the UK employs thousands of
people, all of which could be at risk of job losses when these new
regulations come into force.
“It’s a farce we had no warning about this what are we supposed to do now, it will cost us thousands of pounds to get even a fraction of our accessories approved” said a spokesman for Ripspeed, one of the UK’s largest aftermarket accessory stores. “We have no idea what the other small outlets will do, they will simply go out of business.”
Online and catalogue retailers will also be widely affected. Demon tweeks
added: “We are lucky, motorsport makes up a large part of our business, we shall just have to concentrate on this more, it’s a shame that this had to happen. What will it be next?”
The effects could be felt even more widespread however, There will be
drastic changes to everything including what we read as the Editor of Max
Power said: “Well its hardly a surprise really, everyone knows it was
coming, already in other parts of Europe such a France any kind of engine
mod has been banned for years, I expect the EU wants to bring the UK into line once again, but we had to go one further didn’t we”
Modders now have until the end of the year to have their cars checked by a chartered engineer, at an estimated cost of up to £200 per car, or face a
£1000 fine per modification.”
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Wolfy
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dude, ive read this like 2 years ago.
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Tim
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Unfortunately I had not  Still quite well written...
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Drew
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thats me fked
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Kayleigh
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What a load of shite - someone's having a laff
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StuartVRS
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yeah, the police will love it if us modifiers have nothing better to do with our time and money than buy and deal drugs, go and get drunk every night, it would cause more trouble than its worth for them so it wont happen
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Trotty
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quote:
Originally posted by Tim
This extreme change comes after pressure to the government from the public against the ‘boy racers’ that ruin their town centre car parks on a weekly basis. One local said; “If these new laws come into place they will no longer have anything to show off and will hopefully find something else to do.”
LMFAO
That just completely sums up many people's attitudes, with out even knowing the majority of people's thoughts on it... 
How close minded can some people be...
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shkita
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it was an aprils fools joke i had it a while back aswell
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Cybermonkey
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That was on MIGweb on April 1st, its a load of bollocks, especially when you see that Max Power are mentioned.
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dannycorsa c
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does this mean il have to remove my corsasport stickers oooohhhh noooooooooo aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Adam-D
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its all bolloks an if it is true the gonna be one big mother fukin protest imagine london square full of modded cars wiv there stereos turned right up itd shake the place to the floor!
now theres an idea
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FrankP
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down here we got the police searching sites like this for illegal mods. if ur unlucky (or stupid enough) to leave ur plates, they'll come straight to ur door.
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Adam-D
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errrrrrrrrrmmmm
fuck em!
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Sam
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I saw this on MIG on April 1st...
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BabyBlade
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vibrio
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quote:
Originally posted by Trotty
quote:
Originally posted by Tim
This extreme change comes after pressure to the government from the public against the ‘boy racers’ that ruin their town centre car parks on a weekly basis. One local said; “If these new laws come into place they will no longer have anything to show off and will hopefully find something else to do.”
LMFAO
That just completely sums up many people's attitudes, with out even knowing the majority of people's thoughts on it...
How close minded can some people be...
no I agree with this. the amount of fannies you see driving through town dumping of people who don;t look when they are crossing the road
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Matt H
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last nite when i went to maccy d's i saw loads of heros in their shitters. not one of them have decent cars. i was parked at the opposite end of the car park when sum dick in a faded h reg fiesta pulls up next to me, stopped and set off full pelt round the car park.
one question
WHY?
he thought he was well cool with his 15" evo r's and strap on sally "exhaust" but why dont the understand that they all look like cocks?
makes me embarresed to be young and drive 
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