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Old 11 April 2019, 11:43 AM
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After doing some research on weight reduction on my 03 sti could I just remove this and still pass mot as the spec c doesn’t come with one . Wanting the standard look retained on it but lose weight we’re I can
Old 11 April 2019, 11:56 AM
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Apparently so. It would possibly depend on how vigilante your MOT tester is. There's a lot of talk about it on the US sites. Its like the GBOD and its only there for safety not structural.
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Well my MOT tester has never even asked
Old 12 April 2019, 11:28 AM
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i spoke to Richard at fb tuning , it is safety only rather than structural , but in simple terms if it’s safety is it not worth keeping on the car ? and as far as mot was concerned it depends on the tester , if nothing is there then nothing to test , or if nothing is there why is it not there ?
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Originally Posted by Vxr2010
i spoke to Richard at fb tuning , it is safety only rather than structural , but in simple terms if it’s safety is it not worth keeping on the car ? and as far as mot was concerned it depends on the tester , if nothing is there then nothing to test , or if nothing is there why is it not there ?
When these cars were built there was no crumple zones, all removing the sub-frame does, is make it more euro compliant now there is a better crumple zone in an accident.




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lol i don’t want to be that crumple zone , sounds like the old vw camper vans where the front tyre was the crumple/crumble zone
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