Stihl the VW of the saw world?

[Timbermcpherson]

So now everyone knows how VW has cheated to get around emission laws.

 

After so many have talked about how the first ms201's were pants to run but the newer ones are so much better. And that the 201 was made to be a cleaner replacement to the ms200.

 

I asked a dealer about it, he said that the first one was to pass the emissions tests, and that once the saws had got the tick from the emissions people, the saws could be "improved"

 

Is this what stihl have done? Are they now selling technically uncompliant saws?

[IVECOKID]

Fit the word " Allegedly" somewhere in that post .

 

Ste

[josharb87]

Fit the word " Allegedly" somewhere in that post .

 

Ste

 

[SawTroll]

At least on some markets, the production saw are randomly tested for emissions.

 

Remember all the trouble Dolmar had on the US market not too long ago. They had to set the saws very lean, and epoxy the adjustments in place, so they couldn't be richened. Disaster, for the buyers that didn't understand, or wasn't aware how to fix it - or that it needed to be fixed. The hands of the dealers were "tied".

Edited October 9, 2015 by SawTroll

[shavey]

At least on some markets, the production saw are randomly tested for emissions.

 

Remember all the trouble Dolmar had on the US market not too long ago. They had to set the saws very lean, and epoxy the adjustments in place, so they couldn't be richened. Disaster, for the buyers that didn't understand, or wasn't aware how to fix it - or that it needed to be fixed. The hands of the dealers were "tied".

 

Yes exactly ST that was bad news for a while a lot of people suffered unknowingly there line up in the U.S. is very slim now they have removed four saw models which didn't meet U.S. emissions regulation and hedge trimmers but there are more MM4 engined machines on offer now :thumbup: