I applied to eccoc@bmw.co.uk asking for my cars conformity certificate and gave them my vin. They sent me an attachment duplicate at no fee.
ULEZ result!!
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- Z3 M43 1.8 (1999) and Z4 E85 2.0i (2007)
A Certificate of Conformity is available to customers free of charge for BMW vehicles registered in the UK by emailing us at eccoc@bmw.co.uk.
You need to tell them Reg Number and Vin of the car, mine took about a week to be emailed back to me.
Please beware of fraudulent websites claiming to offer this service for a charge.
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To get the emissions levels added on to your V5 you have to send your V5 and certificate of conformity to DVLA in Swansea or complete the required form plus certificate attachment online. Can't find the DVLA link to do this online.
You need to tell them Reg Number and Vin of the car, mine took about a week to be emailed back to me.
Please beware of fraudulent websites claiming to offer this service for a charge.
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To get the emissions levels added on to your V5 you have to send your V5 and certificate of conformity to DVLA in Swansea or complete the required form plus certificate attachment online. Can't find the DVLA link to do this online.
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Clivez
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I checked my z3 2002 2.2 on line and it said it was already exempt , which surprised me as the road tax is high.
I applied for my CoC for my 1998 2.8 and it came back with:
CO: 0.938
HC: 0.000
NOx: 0.000
Does that mean my Z3 is ULEZ compliant?
CO: 0.938
HC: 0.000
NOx: 0.000
Does that mean my Z3 is ULEZ compliant?
NOx at O.00 would be exempt, cos that would mean it ain't moving 
seriously though that just needs to be notified to DVLA and they should make an adjustment on their records, so when the CAZ/ULEZ make a check it comes up as exempt.
Try it and see.
seriously though that just needs to be notified to DVLA and they should make an adjustment on their records, so when the CAZ/ULEZ make a check it comes up as exempt.
Try it and see.
So how do you notify DVLA? When looking at their website, all I can find is information about CoC for new vehicles?
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- Z3 M43 1.8 (1999) and Z4 E85 2.0i (2007)
Send your V5 together with the BMW Certificate of Conformity to DVLA at Swansea with a covering letter requesting they update the V5 with the emission Data from the CofC. You should get the new V5 back within 4 weeks so the website says. Then go to Tfl website and enter an enquiry for Ulez and upload your pdf of the V5 and the CofC so they can verify the car is exempt for Ulez.
Found it I think:
Change vehicle details on a V5C registration certificate (log book)
Updating your V5C registration certificate (log book) if you make changes to your vehicle.
I now have my certificate of conformity from BMW
Currently my vehicle is ulez compliant for London but not Bristol
...Am I potentially shooting my myself in the foot by getting my V5C changed and it now might fail future MOTs on its new NOx rating whereas at the moment it will pass?
Currently my vehicle is ulez compliant for London but not Bristol
...Am I potentially shooting my myself in the foot by getting my V5C changed and it now might fail future MOTs on its new NOx rating whereas at the moment it will pass?
So far, I have not done anything with my V5, I have currently requested an exemption from TfL for ULEZ and await a response. As for whether an MOT test would treat the car any different if the V5 is updated, I don't know.
I believe we have a former MOT tester resident on this forum.. Perhaps he would like to enlighten us.. I believe the M54 Unit fitted to the 2.2 and 3.0 Z3's was also fitted to early Z4s so I suspect they will be specd to the same emissions for MOT?
What none of us Z3 owners would want obviously is our cars struggling with or failing out MOTs on the back of our V5c "upgrades"!
Agree Ade33, I do not even need the ULEZ compliance, just doing it to be bloody minded and maybe make it easier to sell in the future if that was what I wanted or needed to do.
From what I have learnt from this forum, the tester selects the vehicle type from the emissions machine, it doesn't have anything to do with the V5 or DVLA database. I recall one chap having a failure and it turned out to be because the tester couldn't find Z3 on his machine (apparently in a sub-menu under E36 iirc) so selected Z4 instead.
It would be good if someone can confirm though, as I have requested my CofC too
ChrisD
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I'm afraid not. Your car was certified to an older procedure that recorded a combined HC+NOx reading so you won't see a separate record for the individual pollutants. You'd be very lucky to convince anyone that your car is ULEZ compliant based on this.
ChrisD
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The emissions certification (as stated in Type approval/CoC/V5/etc.) is a totally different test to the MOT emissions test. Nobody should ever try to use the limits or results from one to give any information about the other. That's not to say that someone might try, but this would be wrong.
ChrisD
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To fail a vehicle after knowingly selecting the test limits for a different vehicle is total incompetence.
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Just to put your mind at rest I applied to have my 3.0 litre Zed registered as CAZ compliant (took less than a week for them to respond) and ULEZ compliant (took TfL over 2 months).
A couple of days ago it passed the MOT
I guess I should have posted too. 
I had mine updated following a conformity certificate from BMW.
I can now drive in Bristol, but it's best avoided.
Passed the MOT on Tuesday..
.No adviseries except rear tyres. So two new tyres going on tomorrow.
Going for Avon ZV7's, same as the front
I had mine updated following a conformity certificate from BMW.
I can now drive in Bristol, but it's best avoided.
Passed the MOT on Tuesday..
.No adviseries except rear tyres. So two new tyres going on tomorrow.Going for Avon ZV7's, same as the front