Low emission zone?

[APH]

Hi, I was talking to a friend this morning that said he couldnt take his MK6 X (2000) reg transit into london as of february, This seemed odd as I thought all the MK6 vans were extremely low on emmissions (something like Euro 3 compliant) already. Checked my 03 2.4 90ps and thats supposedly fine, can anyone shed any more light on this?

Don't know for sure yet if its FWD or RWD 2.4 / 2.5. I know its TDDi Duratorq. Will find out exact model tomorrow. Think its RWD as seem to remember seeing a diff on it years ago (i used to work for him and had that van for a while!) did they make the 2.5 in RWD?

Regards,
Andy.

[Altransit]

Being a pre-2002 van, it's automatically excluded from the list of compliant vehicles, but as it is the same engine as the later vans, you can get a letter of compliance from Ford

[APH]

Cheers for that, will let him know. I thought they were all suitable, just wanted to check.

[AndyG]

It's been put back (but keep an eye out for further developments) 'til Jan 2012

So we have the best of 2 years yet (if you're under the 3.5 tonne normal Transit)

[APH]

take it that means up to and including 3.5 tonne, e.g. 90t350 lwb, high top

[AndyG]

Yup

Large vans
Diesel-engined vehicles between 1.205 tonnes unladen and 3.5 tonnes Gross Vehicle Weight and motor caravans and ambulances between 2.5 tonnes and 3.5 tonnes Gross Vehicle Weight.

[APH]

good (bl@#~y government ) one of my mates owns a transport / haulage business, its costing him thousands to have new cat / exhast systems fitted to 18 wheelers

[trigger]

It's just another licence to print money

[APH]

lol, I agree with you there ,
I know weve all got to do our bit to help with the environment, and i'm the first to walk to a job with my toolbox on my shoulder if its only 5 mins away, but, in the grand scheme of things, is charging people to drive into a big city realy going to help industries still need to transport their goods, shops still need deliverys, so even by reducing the emissions we still havent really solved anything just slowed it down slightly. If he government had their way we'd all be on bikes Now I can just see me (Electrician) carrying 4 meter lengths of trunking and rolls of cable on a bike, or grocerys being delivered to supermarkets on the train!! Yes ok, ban vheicals as we currently know them, but first make sure a SUITABLE replacement is available, that dosent cost the Earth (excuse the punn)..........grrrr..

Sorry to go on, but just had to get it off my chest lol

[sc_BK]

or grocerys being delivered to supermarkets on the train!!

Now there's an idea

[Altransit]

Just need to work out a way to shift that stuff from the railway to the shop ........................





...........oh here we go

[H_munch]

Hi can i have the franchise on the push bikes for the London area please! as if i can not drive in to London in my mk3 transit irll end up skint. cheers ,H.

[trigger]

Just need to work out a way to shift that stuff from the railway to the shop ........................





...........oh here we go

At least it's RWD

[Nadjenka]

[trigger]

It's been put back (but keep an eye out for further developments) 'til Jan 2012

So we have the best of 2 years yet (if you're under the 3.5 tonne normal Transit)

So if i want or need to go into London that means i've only got 2 years of Transit ownership left