Hi. Welcome to the forum. Your engineer is correct about the Emmisions test. Sounds like the later criteria has been applied.by the tester, Probably by accident!
Front plate: probably doesn’t comply to construction and use regs. It doesn’t matter how many cars have them fitted!
I’d have to see it for real, but I think it’s borderline for MOT. It certainly could be more vertical.
Return to the station and politely point out their Emmisions error,
Hope this helps. Have a great Xmas!
