Aftermarket Exhaust Inspection

I just returned from the STA inspection centre at Boon Lay Way. Passed my inspection with flying colours haha. This is my first time getting an aftermarket exhaust inspected.

In Singapore, owners of vehicles with an aftermarket exhaust, upon request, are required to produce a certificate stating that their vehicle has passed inspection. To acquire this certificate, one needs to bring their vehicle to an authorized inspection centre.

Today, I took half day leave and went to Bukit Batok Vicom from my workplace. Turned out that their computer system was down, and they were not able to do any motorcycle inspections for the day. One of the inspection officers suggested that I go to Boon Lay Way's STA instead.

It was just a short journey there, about 20 minutes perhaps. Before all this, I did some research and understood that such inspections are called VITAS, which stands for Vehicle Inspection and Type Approval System. This is different from the regular annual inspection that registered Singapore vehicles over 2 years of age are subjected to. You will need to prepare the following documents before going to the inspection centre:

Vehicle Log Card
Obtain from www.onemotoring.com.sg. Go to LTA eServices (login) >> Check your particulars and assets

Certificate of the exhaust system
Obtain from your exhaust distributor or the shop you bought the exhaust from. This is useless without the inspection centre's stamp on it. With the stamp, it becomes the official certificate authorizing the ownership of your exhaust system.

Installation procedures
This is to show that the exhaust was installed properly on your bike. It can be obtained from the shop you bought the exhaust system from. Mine was the standard installation guide which can be obtained from the Akrapovic website.

Document stating who installed the exhaust system
This is a generic document that you can write using any word processing program with the shop's stamp on it. The document should state the shop which installed your exhaust system, your name, your NRIC and your vehicle number. If you installed it yourself, I read somewhere that you have to get a shop to endorse it somehow.

Purchase receipt of the exhaust system
Just a regular receipt stating that you bought the exhaust system through legal means. If you bought it from an individual, there should be some proof stating that. Perhaps a written document and a photocopy of the seller's NRIC.

Upon reaching the inspection centre, ask around where you can do VITAS inspection. There will be an inspection officer who does this, he/she will be the one who checks your documents, tests your bike and issues you the certificate.

When the initial document processing was done for me, we went outside and the inspection officer took photos of my bike and the exhaust system. Every single nut and bolt was scrutinized. He took about 20 photos in all. Maybe he was a bad photographer, I don't know haha.

When the photo taking was done, the inspection officer asked me to ride my bike into the inspection lane where he revved my throttle in short bursts, up till about 4-5k rpm. The computer recorded 89db or so. My Akrapovic slip-on can definitely exceed that if it went into redline, I supposed any vehicle would fail if they were all revved into redline heh. Next, he put a tube into my exhaust to check the emissions rating. Not surprising that my emissions rating was lower than the 2-stroke RXZ that went before me.

After that, I followed him back into the office where he stamped my certificate and gave me a letter stating my vehicle and exhaust details. Both documents complement each other, only if both documents are produced, then it is considered that you're authorized to have the exhaust system installed on your bike. Total cost was SGD$78.

Feel free to post any questions in the comments. Good day and ride safe!