Finding the euro rating of an old horsebox.

[Flog123]

I've been asked to take a horsebox to Italy for a friend.
Looking at the Mont Blanc tunnel website it mentions vehicles with a Euro 3 or higher rating are allowed.

The horsebox I am driving is a 51 plate 2001 vehicle, about the time Euro3 was introduced.

Is there anyway I can find out the rating from the Reg documents.

Otherwise it looks like a long drive round the mountains is in store.

[cootuk]

What vehicle was it converted from, and what engine?

[Flog123]

Its a DAF FA LF45.150

First registered November 2001

Not sure on the engine.

[grumpy52]

As far as I can tell all the engines in the LF 45 150 series comply with Euro 4 & 5 specs .

[cootuk]

"...The Roadrunner morphed into the Leyland Daf FA45 in 1991 and although it later became a full-blown Daf the LF45 is still built at Leyland. The current LF45 was really born in 2001, when cab, chassis and engine were all renewed. The new cab came from Renault Trucks; Renault uses its own version on the Midlum. And out went Cummins’ Euro-2, six-cylinder, 5.9-litre, ISB engine, replaced by Cummins’ all-new Euro-3 four-cylinder 3.9-litre common-rail ISBe engine, with three ratings for 7.5-tonne LF45s; 133hp, 148hp and 165hp. Daf referred to this engine as the Paccar BE. Only the top-rated 7.5-tonne Euro-3 LF45s with 182hp had Cummins’ six-cylinder, 5.9-litre ISBe engine (the CE engine in ‘Daf talk’)..."

[MJK 24]

grumpy52 said:

As far as I can tell all the engines in the LF 45 150 series comply with Euro 4 & 5 specs .

Not in 2001 they won’t have. They’ll be Euro 3.

[Flog123]

Thank you to everyone for the info.

I made it through!!!

They went off the date of first registration on the V5 (November 2001).