CDA
June 12, 2023
According to the data presented by the Aema-ITV association, the rejections for the car emissions test have dropped significantly.
The polluting emissions They had become one of the main causes for not passing the Vehicle Technical Inspection (ITV) in recent times. If you had a veteran and diesel car, you had a lot of ballots to fail the inspection, but it seems that this trend has changedaccording to the latest data made public by the Association of Entities for the Technical Inspection of Vehicles of the Community of Madrid (Aema-ITV).
This organization maintains that the percentage of rejections due to emissions problems has been reduced from 33 percent that it represented in 2022 to 24 percent so far in 2023, which represents a decrease of 9 percent.
Lighting and signage, main reasons for suspense
“This reduction in the number of defects detected in the pollutant gas emission test is good news for Madrid,” stressed Jorge Soriano, president of Aema-ITV. “It must be remembered that the gas emission tests carried out by the ITV prevent up to 575 premature fatalities per year by exposure to particles.
Regarding the total data during the first quarter of 2023, Soriano explained that the Madrid ITV stations have carried out the inspection of 598,367 vehicles, of which 82 percent have satisfactorily approved the ITV at the firsta percentage that increases to 94 percent in second inspections.
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The gas emissions test, despite the decrease, is the third cause for not passing the ITV, behind the “Axles, Wheels, Tires and Suspension” with 27 percent rejection of the vehicles inspected, which ranks second, according to the data provided to Aema-ITV.
He lighting and signaling section is the one that accumulates the most defects and posts a rejection rate of 37 percent. According to Aema-ITV, 213,332 minor defects and 50,052 serious defects have been detected in this test.
