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450 Fortwo 600cc
450 Fortwo 700cc
453 Fortwo and forfour
451 Fortwo 999cc
452 Roadster 700cc
454 Forfour
450 Fortwo 700cc
453 Fortwo and forfour
451 Fortwo 999cc
452 Roadster 700cc
454 Forfour
The European emissions standards set the acceptable limit for exhaust emission of new
vehicles in European states. New vehicles sold after the date shown for each standard
must be within the standards or it cannot be legally sold in European Union states.
Numbers are g/km (Grams output per Kilometer).
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From Euro 3 onwards they were measured separately on petrol engines.
Diesel engines never had a separate HC count.
The manufacturer of the vehicle sends a few examples of each engine type to a specialist test
centre where they run emissions tests and give the engine type either a pass or a fail. If it passes,
the manufacturer can then sell that model with that engine for as long as they like without a
retest (unless the standards are updated or the engine is modified by the manufacturer).
Euro 5 exhausts may have been fitted to petrol cars built earlier than September 2009.
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It doesn't affect you really. Even if you remap the car, put a new exhaust on it or squeeze more
power from it, it does not ever need to be retested for the Euro emissions standards. From the
point you buy the car, the Euro emission standard number is set and will not change. This can go
both ways though as adding a Euro5 exhaust will not change your emissions rating.
The only emission standard you have to conform to is the one performed on the MOT every year.
No there won't. Emissions for Euro 6 diesels are so hard to achieve that car companies have been cheating to get
the emissions down. In 2015, VW cars were found to reduce the engine power and run a different fuel map when
the car knew it was being tested. It was a simple work around as the emissions tests are done on a dyno (rolling
road). These have rollers under the wheels that are turned by the car. Because of the traction control fitted to
the car, it wouldn't just allow the driven wheels to turn if the non driven wheels were stationary. The traction
control had to be turned off to do the test but as soon as it was, the car reduced the engine power.
Many other car manufacturers have also been caught doing similar things.
For diesels to pass the Euro 6 emissions, you really have to run a water/urea injection into the exhaust.
It evaporates in the exhaust, magical chemical stuff happens and it reduces NOx.
The problem is cost and space, not to mention that you have to buy the fluid to add to the vehicle.
Not only is there no space to fit such a system on the smart 453, the cost would
outweigh the savings that you could achieve by owning a diesel engine.
So, until a technology is invented to lower the emissions without all this extra stuff, diesels are dead.
