Emission test

[Jerrlim]

In order to conduct emission testing of cars, car inspection centre rev your car engine pass the red line a couple of times and each time holding it for a good 15sec? Isn’t this abusing the engine?

[Ake109]

In order to conduct emission testing of cars, car inspection centre rev your car engine pass the red line a couple of times and each time holding it for a good 15sec? Isn’t this abusing the engine?

 

Holding the rev at red line for 15 secs? You sure?

[ER-3682]

In order to conduct emission testing of cars, car inspection centre rev your car engine pass the red line a couple of times and each time holding it for a good 15sec? Isn’t this abusing the engine?

Cannot be,i think hold at 2,000 Rpm....anyway some Cars in N cannot cannot rev above 4,000rpm...

[Jerrlim]

Unless i have read the monitor display wrongly. Any bros here come across this?

[mercymercy]

In order to conduct emission testing of cars, car inspection centre rev your car engine pass the red line a couple of times and each time holding it for a good 15sec? Isnât this abusing the engine?

Wait. Happened to your car or just another ‘tiagong’?

[Watwheels]

Ignore what the rest are asking. Already mention in parliament, these ppl are living in a world of their own.

 

The new testing just kicked in on 1st April. Is that what they are doing now?

 

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/motorists-will-spend-longer-time-at-test-centres-with-stricter-inspection

 

 

SINGAPORE - A stricter vehicle inspection regimen for petrol vehicles, slated to roll out in April, will extend the inspection process by 33 per cent.

Leading vehicle inspection specialist Vicom - part of transport giant ComfortDelGro Corp - said a new test which will measure emissions at high and low idling speeds "will take an additional five minutes".

The average time taken for a petrol vehicle inspection is no more than 15 minutes, Vicom said.

In Parliament on Tuesday, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Masagos Zulkifli said that he would be reviewing "how to reduce vehicular pollution from older, more polluting vehicles".

"We will announce our recommendations in due course," he said, without elaborating.

Same time last year, Mr Masagos announced that a more stringent vehicle inspection regiment will kick in from April 1, this year.

He said: "The in-use emission standard for diesel vehicles was already tightened in January 2014. We will now introduce new in-use emission standards for petrol vehicles and motorcycles, similar to those already in place in Europe and Japan.

"These standards are designed to be easily met by properly maintained vehicles. The new standards will take effect on April 1, 2018, and will help minimise excessive emissions due to vehicle defects or poor maintenance."

As the cost of vehicles rises on the back of lofty certificate of entitlement (COE) premiums, vehicle owners are increasingly choosing COE revalidation - extending the 10-year lifespan of a COE by paying a prevailing quota premium - rather than buying a new vehicle.

As a result, Singapore's vehicle population - especially that of cars - has aged significantly. According to Land Transport Authority (LTA) statistics, the number of cars nine years or older stood at 163,323 as at end-2017, making up 26.7 per cent of the car population. In 2007, there were 30,529 such cars, which accounted for 5.9 per cent of the car population.

According to the LTA, 91 per cent of vehicles above 10 years of age passed inspection on the first attempt last year. It was the highest passing rate for this category of vehicles in at least 10 years. Previously, only around 85 per cent passed on the first inspection.

A Vicom spokesman said: "In preparation for the new tests that come as a result of the tightening of exhaust emission standards, all Vicom vehicle inspectors will have to undergo at least eight hours of theory and practical training."

She added that new equipment such as gas analysers, external tachometers and engine speed signal converters, as well as air ventilation systems have also been brought in.

"To ensure the smooth functioning of all systems once the new tests are implemented, an engineer from our Japanese supplier flew in recently to re-programme the inspection software to ensure both high and low idle tests work concurrently," she said.

 

 

Is this done when the car is stationary or on the rollers where there's load/resistance? And how old is your car? Is it coe car or less dan 10yo?

Edited April 4, 2018 by Watwheels

[Jerrlim]

@watwheels

I did my car inspection at vicom sin ming yday afternn. The reving was carried out when my car was stationary, during the same time when the auto headlights checker moved to and fro checking the headlights.

I am not sure whether i read the computer monitor display correctly. The monitor has a lot of infos displayed and one column was rpm. I should have query immediately on the spot but was too preoccupied. It was only during dinner time when i sat down and recollected what had happened. I am asking any bros here whether they could have experienced this. Reving pass red line is just too unusual to me. It’s abusing the engine to do such an emission test.

Incidentally, my car will be 3yo by end May.

[Shibadog]

there's a new "high idle emission test" for petrol cars registered after 1st Apr 2014, according to a notice by STA on the additional inspection fee.

 

I guess that is the reason for holding it at high rev

[Dilemma]

After the car reaches the Sg shores, it would have gone through the same tests. So i don't see any issues here.