How to register your bike for ULEZ exemption

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Hello all!

I just bought a 2006 Kawasaki ZX-10R, which as a pre-2007 machine, TFL believed should pay the ULEZ. Not so! The ZX-10R is a Euro 3 compliant bike, I just needed to convince TFL of that fact.

The process is as follows:

  1. Use this table to find the contact info for your motorcycle’s manufacturer

  2. Acquire a certificate of conformity from your motorcycle’s manufacturer. For me, this meant emailing [email protected] who asked for a scan of the vehicle’s V5C (all 4 pages, clearly showing name and address of owner). This process was delayed for me because I had just bought the bike and had to wait for the V5 to show up. Once I had the V5, kawasaki got the certificate to me the same day.

  3. Complete this online form, submitting your V5C and the Certificate of Conformity. TFL will respond in a day or two with the result of your application.

That’s it. The whole process takes around 2 days. Manufacturers have different policies around charging for the certificate, but all are cheaper than going for a £175 emissions test! Sadly, they do not offer refunds on any ULEZ charges already paid.

Feel free to reply here for advice or additional info!

Here’s the data from my Certificate of Conformity. As you can see, it clearly states Euro 3 along with the actual emmissions test figures.

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Thanks for that. As noted in the table for Triumph pre 2002 ‘uncertain’ I can verify that they couldn’t help with a certificate for my ’93 Trident 900. However, they were prompt in answering my enquiry and later it passed the ULEZ emissions test.

Also worth repeating that each individual bike needs a cert, the fact that the 2006 Kawasaki ZX10R above passed doesn’t apply to every other one.

Incidentally, as I think I’ve mentioned here before, the ULEZ tester told me and I quote “99 out of 100 bikes will pass the test” and “even if it fails adjustments can be made to help it pass”.

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Excellent write up @Columbo, I did just as you describe with the 250 back in 2018 ahead of the April 2019 introduction of TfL’s original ULEZ stealth tax. Honda issued the Certificate of Conformity free of charge at that time.

Noteworthy here is that TfL’s ULEZ compliance is based on the level of nitrous oxide (NOx) emissions not the Euro standards, the bottom line for ULEZ exemption being less than 0.08g/km.

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Thankfully, it’s not quite that strict. Euro3 for petrol vehicles allows up to 0.15g/km. 0.08g/km is the figure for Euro6 diesels.