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DVSA to work with IAAF as illegal brake parts revealed
8 April 2022Three out of eight aftermarket brake pads tested by the DVSA’s Market Surveillance Unit failed to meet UNECE R90 performance requirements, and the government body… Read More
OBD port remains open in UK Type Approval win
3 September 2020Ending years of concern over the status of the OBD port in a post-Brexit world, the Department for Transport (DfT) has confirmed that the OBD… Read More
You don’t know what YOU don’t know
10 July 2020The well known expression of ‘every cloud has a silver lining’ may in some cases be the reverse – that what looks like a good… Read More
Type Approval consultation: The clock is ticking
16 June 2020Future access to vehicle data via OBD is one of the overall vehicle Type Approval rules from September up for discussion, following the release of… Read More
Vehicle Type Approval revisions: Threat or opportunity?
1 August 2018Following last month’s article concerning the evolution of the whole aftermarket value chain, based on remote access to a vehicle, the importance of the recently… Read More
SO FAR… so good
24 March 2018You may have read about some of the challenges that the aftermarket has faced over the last year or two as part of the vehicle… Read More
‘Grassroots insight’ plays influential role in crucial Type-Approval legislation vote
7 February 2018The European Parliament’s IMCO committee have approved several key amendments to Vehicle Type-Approval legislation proposals, which include the aftermarket maintaining in-vehicle data access via the… Read More
