due to the amount of naivety or lies being told by various outfits, or generally being oblivious to the facts here is some facts regarding your diesel car and it's DPF (diesel particulate filter)...
if your diesel car left the factory with a DPF it "MUST" be fitted to pass a current MOT test.
if it is missing its an instant MOT failure...
if it is missing it is road illegal..
if it is missing it invalidates your car insurance..
if it missing or none functioning you are committing road fund license fraud..
if it is missing and in the event of an insurance claim your insurer can and will throw the claim out if it's found to be missing or gutted as it is a road illegal and an undeclared illegal modification in your policy declaration statement..
if you are stopped or pulled over and its found to be missing by either the police or VOSA spot checks etc its a £1000 fine...
if your DPF is detected as gutted (IE:the guts removed) currently all the above still applies bar MOT which is at the moment is a visual check for its presence...it's STILL road illegal and invalidates insurance etc etc...it still maybe detected on the smoke and soot test that it is gutted or missing as it should not smoke at all or leave any soot deposits...
no bonafide garage with MOT and VOSA creditation will remove or gut a DPF as it's road illegal and they would risk losing their VOSA acreditation...
the excuse by saying you didn't know it was missing is not a valid explanation or reason, you are soley responsible for making sure your car is road legal at all times....
Department for Transport, it is an offence under the Road vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Regulation 61a(3))
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/regulation/61/made
UPDATE: The word is shortly the VOSA and MOT test is soon to be ammended to detect deleted or gutted DPF with a physical test because of the amount of none functioning DPF polluting and vehicle tax fraud happening...
if your diesel car left the factory with a DPF it "MUST" be fitted to pass a current MOT test.
if it is missing its an instant MOT failure...
if it is missing it is road illegal..
if it is missing it invalidates your car insurance..
if it missing or none functioning you are committing road fund license fraud..
if it is missing and in the event of an insurance claim your insurer can and will throw the claim out if it's found to be missing or gutted as it is a road illegal and an undeclared illegal modification in your policy declaration statement..
if you are stopped or pulled over and its found to be missing by either the police or VOSA spot checks etc its a £1000 fine...
if your DPF is detected as gutted (IE:the guts removed) currently all the above still applies bar MOT which is at the moment is a visual check for its presence...it's STILL road illegal and invalidates insurance etc etc...it still maybe detected on the smoke and soot test that it is gutted or missing as it should not smoke at all or leave any soot deposits...
no bonafide garage with MOT and VOSA creditation will remove or gut a DPF as it's road illegal and they would risk losing their VOSA acreditation...
the excuse by saying you didn't know it was missing is not a valid explanation or reason, you are soley responsible for making sure your car is road legal at all times....
Department for Transport, it is an offence under the Road vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations (Regulation 61a(3))
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/regulation/61/made
UPDATE: The word is shortly the VOSA and MOT test is soon to be ammended to detect deleted or gutted DPF with a physical test because of the amount of none functioning DPF polluting and vehicle tax fraud happening...