Dishonesty is dominating the "Czech-Slovak" MOT, and destroying the repair trade

20.04.2023 12:24 • aktualizováno 20.04.2023 15:56
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Two years ago, ASEM tried to make the first analysis from the database of the Information System for Technical Inspections (ISTP) of the Ministry of Transport, how the different categories of vehicles were performing in relation to age, system types and emission classes, but the data didn't make any sense. According to the ISTP data, a thirty-year-old tractor without a turbo takes the same amount of time to accelerate freely as the engine of a six-year-old Alfa Romeo sports car, and the smoke levels are mysteriously the same.
The ISTP database cannot be relied upon statistically because its contents show the many ways emissions tests are not supposed to be done. The complete "Emissions Testing" system is mainly about mass fraud.

There is no solution without a systematic change

If we look at the emission testing procedure, the Czech legislation stipulates methods that are often in direct contradiction with the manufacturers' recommendations. The incoherent laws drafted only for the benefit of influential owners of MOT testing stations create another unsolvable problem. After the " influential " have dominated both Emission Testing and Technical Inspections, we are about to see another move by them in the near future that will fundamentally impact our lives as repairers. The European term "inspector" will be the main justification. The European Directive doesn't recognize the two terms "Inspection Technician" and "Emission Technician", as the Czech legislation currently defines them, but only one: the "Inspector", who is supposed to do everything.

"Inspector" (EU) and technical and emission testing as "single act"

If it turns out that way and the Czech legislation, thanks to the biased government authorities, will follow the merging of the inspection operations into one act. Then it will be impossible for "Emission Testing" to be carried out at service workshops. The "inspectors" will only be trained in a single training course, and none will receive a certificate unless they conduct the complete "Technical Inspections". The emissions technician will quietly disappear.

The impact of this change will take several forms. The existing "Emissions Technicians" will take advantage of the shortage of "inspectors", undergo only some general training and leave the workshops. This will be the final straw for the workshop owners. They were already not allowed to measure emissions for several years because the law didn't allow them to do so due to a possible conflict of interest (repairs/inspections). The employee with the certificate had the employer in their pocket until then. So they were left with emission test equipment and no one to operate them. Small conflicts of interest are closely monitored by the Ministry of Transport officials, while large ones are widely tolerated. How very Czech!

Trade Prohibition in Czech Interpretation

Electricians and chimney sweeps can issue inspection certificates. Auto repairers can't, because they would be in a conflict of interest according to Law No. 56/2001?

Yes, even in this way, a civil servant can bend the law for a specific trade if he has some sound side interest. And there is plenty of that on the part of the influential MOT station owners. As if it is not enough that the exclusivity of the MOT owner is protected from any competition by the legal definition that regulates the number of MOTs in districts. This is in direct conflict with the rules of free competition.

The consequences will be revealed soon. There is a shortage of car mechanics, and if the state discriminates against them, there will be even fewer. The high-demand mechanics can pick and choose their work because there is so much of it, thanks to the mass of cars. And because only an enthusiast, an idiot, or someone without economic knowledge would want to keep and use emission equipment in his workshop, it won't be possible to demand from workshops to prepare vehicles for MOT emission testing. There will be neither the equipment nor the people in the workshops with the required knowledge. The state hasn't provided them with the freedom to make money by "Testing Emissions" with expensive equipment that has to be calibrated every six months.

So who will test emissions? Just the "green guys" at the MOT test station? They measure them in five-minute intervals and don't have time for emissions analysis with the intention to locate faults. They have other things to worry about! How not to get poorer with the wages that the MOT owners deliberately keep at a minimum. All this leads to an effort to make sure that everything that comes in passes when possible, otherwise, the owner will blame them for turning away customers. Conflict of interest? Never mind!

Who will repair the sophisticated emission systems?

The state will be short of somebody understanding emissions systems diagnostics. If the state wants to motivate someone to repair emission system failures, it has to give them a chance to earn money for emission equipment. It doesn't make sense for an auto repair shop to purchase and keep them when the state prohibits them from making a profit. Who is the Ministry of Transport "helping"? 

If it stays the same, no one will need anyone. The car's emission test will pass without a problem if 15 EUR is left in the car's ashtray. All activity will be picked up by those garages that are already prepared to use an impact drill to destroy both catalytic converters and particulate filters, and the perfect Czech noodledom with a poisoned environment will continue in the same pattern. Well, what will the honest car workshops repair? The issues that will stop the cars from operating. Finally, it will start to be addressed the way it should have been in the first place. If that happens. With an honest repair.


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