What a tuning house changes, and why the factory did not.
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A workshop’s changes, read against the factory’s reasons for not making them.
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Why the factory did not

The factory considered most of this and declined, for reasons that were rarely aesthetic. Two guides on emissions certification, warranty exposure and the decade of durability testing a tuner does not spend.

White hatchback undergoing emissions testing on a chassis dynamometer in a factory test cell
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A chassis dynamometer in an emissions cell — the test the factory has to pass and the tuner does not.

Photo: 005 Chassis dynamometer car testing in car factory - Opel Factory in Gliwice, Poland - Rollenprüfstand · Wikimedia Commons

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