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blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 17387

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Stornoway Grey

X4SKP wrote:
They also said that from 27th April 2009 Tow bars and their attachment to the vehicle become part of the MOT

Do you mean 2009, or 2019?

5th Oct 2018 12:51pm

X4SKP

Member Since: 29 Nov 2013
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 2295

2010 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 SW Stornoway Grey

I checked and I think they are right...

SKIP
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5th Oct 2018 1:00pm

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 17387

So they have been for the last nine years! I was trying to reconcile 2009 with the tense of "become" (rather than "became").

Given that they have been part of the test for nine years and nobody's noticed or whinged about it, I don't suppose it is much of a problem. It is useful to know however.

5th Oct 2018 2:01pm

X4SKP

Member Since: 29 Nov 2013
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 2295

You are right bw, my typo...
Just seen there is a new MOT Test for Defender Towing Equipment...

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5th Oct 2018 2:52pm

miker

Member Since: 13 Sep 2015
Location: Surrey
Posts: 1763

Mine's never presented with a tow ball, as I take the slider off the ladder when I'm not towing something with it!

5th Oct 2018 5:44pm

Supacat

Member Since: 16 Oct 2012
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 11018

2013 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS DCPU Keswick Green

Me too, there's quite a lot to digest in this thread.

5th Oct 2018 6:07pm

Supacat

Member Since: 16 Oct 2012
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 11018

leeds wrote:
Now the DB Shocklink has what appears to me to be an approval mark. The interesting thing is the country code ( IIRC E11 ) is not the current standard format for a country code. The current standard country code is an E + number in a circle. The country code on the Shocklink is inside a rectangle. Now what that means for the type approval I do not know.

Brendan

It shows the type approval is not whole vehicle but for a component or in the jargon a STU (Separate Technical Unit):

Extract from the Framework Directive 2007 46:

"The EC component and separate technical unit type-approval mark shall consist of:

1.1. a rectangle surrounding the lower-case letter ‘e’ followed by the distinguishing letter(s) or number of the Member State
which has granted the EC component or separate technical unit type-approval:
1 For Germany
2 For France
3 For Italy
4 For The Netherlands
5 For Sweden
6 For Belgium
7 For Hungary
8 For the Czech Republic
9 For Spain
11 For the United Kingdom
12 For Austria
13 For Luxembourg
17 For Finland
18 For Denmark
19 For Romania
20 For Poland
21 For Portugal
23 For Greece
24 For Ireland
26 For Slovenia
27 For Slovakia
29 For Estonia
32 For Latvia
34 For Bulgaria
36 For Lithuania
49 For Cyprus
50 For Malta

1.2. In the vicinity of the rectangle the ‘base approval number’ contained in Section 4 of the type-approval number preceded by the two figures indicating the sequence number assigned to the latest major technical amendment to the relevant separate directive or regulation.

1.3. An additional symbol or symbols located above the rectangle, enabling certain characteristics to be identified. This further information is specified in the relevant separate directives or regulations.

2. The component or separate technical unit type-approval mark is affixed to the separate technical unit or component in such a way as to be indelible and clearly legible.

3. An example of a component or separate technical unit type-approval mark is contained in the Addendum."

6th Oct 2018 12:20pm

Supacat

Member Since: 16 Oct 2012
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 11018

LandRoverAnorak wrote:
leeds wrote:
As far as I am aware the date of regulation 55 is 2012 and I think the effective date is sometime in 2015 but am willing to be corrected on the actual dates.

The date that I've quoted above, 29th October 2012, is the implementation date, from which it became effective.

Just to complicate things...or maybe clarify...the UK legislation - "2009 No. 717 ROAD TRAFFIC The Road Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2009" - makes a difference for implementation between new types of vehicle and existing types.

Completed vehicles in category N1 29th October 2011 or 29th April 2013. I believe Defender N1 would be subject to the later date.

That's before you get in to the "The Alternative Conditions and Temporary Exemption for the Purposes of Regulation"

6th Oct 2018 12:35pm

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