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Originally Posted by slob
Technically it’s ‘07, although many manufaturers adopted early. It’s not in TFL interest to invest in doing this efficiently, as that just decreases revenue for them, whatever the official excuse.
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That’s right. 2007 on is accepted without fuss. And as you say it’s not really in their interest to make it easy otherwise. Before 2007 many bikes had already adopted Euro 3 standards in anticipation of them coming in (or the particular model met them anyway) and it may state this on the V5.
But, at least in my experience, even if your official V5 document clearly says it’s euro 3 standard, they’ll insist on you getting and sending them the CoC for your specific bike, unless the V5 also includes specific nox etc figures. There is no real policy/legal basis for this (given TFL readily accept 2007 onwards V5’s which only state Euro 3, but also don’t give specific figures) but they don’t care.
If TFL are particularly slow and incompetent and you make a big enough fuss, as I did, they may refund you the CoC cost in the guise of an ex gratia payment so they can pretend no precedent has been set for accepting what the V5 says on pre-2007 bikes and continue to boost revenue/force older vehicles off the road…