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Can't they just deal with it at the MOT?
Plus I'm pretty sure it would be pointless recording the noisy bollock whizzing up and down my road on his motorbike, because apparently number plates are optional when there's fuck all police about.
MOT doesn't happen every day.
Is a car noisy for just one day?
It's the inverse - the car is quiet for just one day, its MOT day. The owner will put the standard exhaust on for the MOT, then put the loud one back on once they have the MOT pass certificate in hand. Same thing with numberplates with odd spacing to make words. The owner will put a standard plate on for the MOT then swap it for their illegally spaced one once the MOT is done.
Yes, that’s what my mechanic told me.
I'm pretty sure that a lot of people do custom jobs, either at a shop or a hobbyist place. The nerds who are into custom exhausts can probably just switch before and after their inspection. Although granted I wish the MOT dealt with loud cars better. I heard they're going down this route, but haven't see any effect from it yet.
In the US, people with mall crawlers and enshittified "sports" cars will cheat emissions tests (assuming the state has them) and then revert their coal rolling and earsplitting mods again right afterward.
I imagine it's fairly simple to do the same for noise at the DEQ/MOT inspection. I imagine there's some sort of removeable noise damper they can shove in and bam, they get a pass.