[user=20970]#Exhausted[/user] wrote:
[quote]Brilliant answer, but I’m not pushing for a ban on loud vehicles.
Instead, I’m looking to see whether it would be politically and technically realistic to tax vehicles by their noise output (in addition to Co2 etc). If we can do it for Co2, can’t we do it for decibels too?
It would help recoup some of the badly-needed money you mention, but it would also help to focus the owners minds on how badly they want a loud car.
When you gather Co2 data now, presumably it is uploaded directly from the test machines to the DVLA? I’m saying let’s do the same for decibels, and tax accordingly.
I appreciate some might think it all a waste of time and just more grief for testers, but I hope you follow my logic, if not my conclusions![/quote]they already do.its called roadtax.the only cars you can get real noise outta are the ones that actually had any power to begin with hence my below quoted pos corsa.a focus st for instance is about 300 sheets to tax and most motors played with by the boost brigade are on a par.whats stopping em bolting on what they like between tests?ive already got a few scoobys etc that get their cat bolted on,pass the emissions test,get their ticket then take it all off and turn the boost back up.and no our emissions data isnt linked direct to the ministry tho i have no doubt that sooner or later it will be(at OUR cost naturally)and none of this stops the guys who just get a moody ticket to begin with which is what most of the serious modders do.this takes us straight back to enforcement does it not?there are already laws covering this sorta thing and if they aint already being enforced(the current diesel test fiasco for instance) then we as testers aint got a hope.you could always try for a change in primary legislation to prevent kids being kids.good luck with that.
