EGR Delete MOT Pass / Fail

Hi all, would really appreciate an advice or experiance anyone has had recently in having their vehicle MOTd with EGR Delete in place? I am just starting on the road of Modding my 2002 Disco 2 TD5 for offroad use and was looking at doing the EGR delete. I mentioned this to one of my friends who runs a 4x4 garage specializing in Modding landrovers, and he said that due to new rules they cannot pass an MOT on vehicles with the EGR delete as its altering the factory engine state. Can anyone confirm this?

Dorsetlanez said:

Hi all, would really appreciate an advice or experiance anyone has had recently in having their vehicle MOTd with EGR Delete in place? I am just starting on the road of Modding my 2002 Disco 2 TD5 for offroad use and was looking at doing the EGR delete. I mentioned this to one of my friends who runs a 4x4 garage specializing in Modding landrovers, and he said that due to new rules they cannot pass an MOT on vehicles with the EGR delete as its altering the factory engine state. Can anyone confirm this?

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technically it is true, ive just never found a mot station thats actually looked

They cant remove the engine cover to check.

Thanks guys...

Mines passed every year since 2015 with no cat, no centre box and egr delete with no problems.

Dorsetlanez said:

Hi all, would really appreciate an advice or experiance anyone has had recently in having their vehicle MOTd with EGR Delete in place? I am just starting on the road of Modding my 2002 Disco 2 TD5 for offroad use and was looking at doing the EGR delete. I mentioned this to one of my friends who runs a 4x4 garage specializing in Modding landrovers, and he said that due to new rules they cannot pass an MOT on vehicles with the EGR delete as its altering the factory engine state. Can anyone confirm this?

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I might be wrong, but aren't there blanking plates that you put between the valve and the intake manifold? They'd be a lot harder to spot.

If you've got the engine cover on, and they don't look too closely, you'll get away with it.
If they look closely you won't.
Keep the kit and if they do spot it, put it back on for the retest.
That's what I have done.
Just got away with it so far.

I think the rules are slightly different w.r.t pre and post 2001 vehicles...

IIRC, post 2001 somewhere in the rules, they are allowed to remove covers .... - possibly coming to the same age range is plugging it in, to make sure its all ship shape and bristol fashion - the issue being that pre 2004 LR diesels were not OBD2 compliant ..... so ...... not really practical

Pre 2001, they aren't - I suspect it's a grandfathers rights type of thing... AFAIK - for this age range, the valve has be present ... BUT, they have no way ( or authority ) to check the function of the thing .....

However, as per post #2 - How may will actually check ( or even know how !) and #6 - a blanking plate just looks like a thick gasket, so .....

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/mot-ins...ommercial-vehicles/8-nuisance#section-8-2-1-1
See 8.2.1.1.
and 8.2.2.1

Mines had it on since 2008 and not failed an MOT because of it.

Factory cat delete too

Think new rules were 2018 onwards
Just do as suggested and fit blanking shim, invisible and no one can tell, or most likely really care!

Excellent...thanks