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Range Rover Blues:
I took the RR into a garage where my mate works so he could test the shocks on their jazzy computerised shaker bed, it's handling like s**t but I think it may be a loose swivel. Anyway it's a great peice of kit and as they are now a computerised MOT station it looks like the shape of things to come, no more bouncing on the wings and breaking wrists for the poor MOT man doing MY car.
Anyway, this thing can also tell you what the car weighs. 1024kg on the front axle and 1346kg on the rear :shock: ****ing hell! my car's put on 400kg somewhere, is the chassis full of mud?
BTW he tells me they have had a memorandum from the MOT not to test 4x4 vehicles with mechanical traction aids on the rolling road anymore. Apparently a Scooby can climb off the rollers and run down the tester in the process.
Xtremeteam:
--- Quote from: "Range Rover Blues" ---I took the RR into a garage where my mate works so he could test the shocks on their jazzy computerised shaker bed, it's handling like s**t but I think it may be a loose swivel. Anyway it's a great peice of kit and as they are now a computerised MOT station it looks like the shape of things to come, no more bouncing on the wings and breaking wrists for the poor MOT man doing MY car.
Anyway, this thing can also tell you what the car weighs. 1024kg on the front axle and 1346kg on the rear :shock: ****ing hell! my car's put on 400kg somewhere, is the chassis full of mud?
BTW he tells me they have had a memorandum from the MOT not to test 4x4 vehicles with mechanical traction aids on the rolling road anymore. Apparently a Scooby can climb off the rollers and run down the tester in the process.
--- End quote ---
yep lol,had to convince the MOT tester where i used to work that you could do a landy on the rollers by putting the Tbox in neutral,although for scoobys etc is soooo funny when it jumps out,council employed mate of mine who is a mechanic was servicing a FWD tranny & they have to do a brake test at each service so he poped it into the rollers & went through his interior test then jumped out & walked round the van checking & went n got the control for the rollers,switched it on & forgot the van was in reverse with the ignition on & bump started it n it took off across the workshop :(biglaugh): :(biglaugh):
in regards to the weight thing,its all the rust inside the chassis as my soft top 90 racer weighs in at about 1900 kg when in race spec :evil:
Miniman:
I wonder how much my rusty landy would weigh in at as it's chassi is rusty inside. Rust is heavyer than metal....lol
hobbit:
What does your man say about re-tests, seems the little helper of a free retest may be snookered with the new system
Xtremeteam:
local guy to me is currently still doing free retests mainly to keep original punters,
the garage my work uses they can be abit funny about it,if you can get it back the same day not a prob,but after that he becomes a bit of a hit n miss
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