breath filter is illegal?
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my car is 1992. he said you exhaust is too loud, something must wrong, let me see you engine..i tried block the breath pipe on timing cover. but it cause oil leak from the cover,yeah, i need put the pipe under the car

On 17th Apr, 2010 wintersurferuk said:
What!!!

is there a noise limit on the road??? has he any right to rummage through your bay?

glad hes not worried about the uninsured driver bugger who crashed into back of ya then runs off leaving you to pay for a new car and Insurance....

sorry im in a bad mood tonight. but still i was planing on using breathers myself, now i'll have to feed all the pipes to under the car so you cant see them, surely thats not the way, when im sober im going to find out some more.

what year is your car? you must be able to get around it!

On 17th Apr, 2010 jom said:

actually, he stop me becaue exhaust was loud..and then ask me open the bonnet. he didnt say exhaust is wrong, just said the filter is illegal. 30pounds!

On 17th Apr, 2010 wintersurferuk said:
this makes me wonder, my 1100 from the 78 clubman didnt have a catchtank, will my new turbo be a problem? anywhere i could read up on this?

thanks for any help, :)

how much was the ticket for and whats the year of your car? sorry to hear about the fuzz who had nothing better to do than to hunt for something to finger you with.......

I didn't think the police had any right to look underneath your bonnet. As far as i know only a qualified VOSA technician is allowed to do that at the roadside

"something must be wrong!! NO ITS supposed to sound like that!!"

so why are you blocking the timing cover breather? could you not feed an oil breather/drain to the bottem of the subframe, you may lose a little oil. or is there a fiter breather on the end of it? sorry its getting late and im getting through the beers lol !

On 17th Apr, 2010 jom said:
my car is 1992. he said you exhaust is too loud, something must wrong, let me see you engine..i tried block the breath pipe on timing cover. but it cause oil leak from the cover,yeah, i need put the pipe under the car

On 17th Apr, 2010 wintersurferuk said:
What!!!

is there a noise limit on the road??? has he any right to rummage through your bay?

glad hes not worried about the uninsured driver bugger who crashed into back of ya then runs off leaving you to pay for a new car and Insurance....

sorry im in a bad mood tonight. but still i was planing on using breathers myself, now i'll have to feed all the pipes to under the car so you cant see them, surely thats not the way, when im sober im going to find out some more.

what year is your car? you must be able to get around it!

On 17th Apr, 2010 jom said:

actually, he stop me becaue exhaust was loud..and then ask me open the bonnet. he didnt say exhaust is wrong, just said the filter is illegal. 30pounds!

On 17th Apr, 2010 wintersurferuk said:
this makes me wonder, my 1100 from the 78 clubman didnt have a catchtank, will my new turbo be a problem? anywhere i could read up on this?

thanks for any help, :)

how much was the ticket for and whats the year of your car? sorry to hear about the fuzz who had nothing better to do than to hunt for something to finger you with.......

Im not blocking for now. but i tried before.i have a fiter end o fit, but is always get dirty.

On 17th Apr, 2010 wintersurferuk said:
"something must be wrong!! NO ITS supposed to sound like that!!"

so why are you blocking the timing cover breather? could you not feed an oil breather/drain to the bottem of the subframe, you may lose a little oil. or is there a fiter breather on the end of it? sorry its getting late and im getting through the beers lol !

On 17th Apr, 2010 jom said:
my car is 1992. he said you exhaust is too loud, something must wrong, let me see you engine..i tried block the breath pipe on timing cover. but it cause oil leak from the cover,yeah, i need put the pipe under the car

On 17th Apr, 2010 wintersurferuk said:
What!!!

is there a noise limit on the road??? has he any right to rummage through your bay?

glad hes not worried about the uninsured driver bugger who crashed into back of ya then runs off leaving you to pay for a new car and Insurance....

sorry im in a bad mood tonight. but still i was planing on using breathers myself, now i'll have to feed all the pipes to under the car so you cant see them, surely thats not the way, when im sober im going to find out some more.

what year is your car? you must be able to get around it!

On 17th Apr, 2010 jom said:

actually, he stop me becaue exhaust was loud..and then ask me open the bonnet. he didnt say exhaust is wrong, just said the filter is illegal. 30pounds!

On 17th Apr, 2010 wintersurferuk said:
this makes me wonder, my 1100 from the 78 clubman didnt have a catchtank, will my new turbo be a problem? anywhere i could read up on this?

thanks for any help, :)

how much was the ticket for and whats the year of your car? sorry to hear about the fuzz who had nothing better to do than to hunt for something to finger you with.......

I suppose it was £30 cash too. Lol.

I reckon a large proportion of tuned minis have the breathers venting to atomosphere.

In the 13's at last!.. Just

I would be asking the police to clarify the guidelines for roadside stops and under bonnet inspections, then ask them to show you the particular regulation which states breather filters are illegal.