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rokcrawlin:
It would probrably pay you all to look at a pre test before the full mot as this is a cheaper option to do, I do this so that i can repair the vehicle myself if there is something i have missed............it also means the vehicle is not on a register of badly maintained vehicles due to a minor fault ..........the ANPR system will allow for the chance of your vehicle being stopped if it is classed as a badly maintained vehicle especially with the cross agency data base that will be availiable once every garage/insurance company and the dvla is linked to the Police data base

jalopy joe:
So the only thing Mr. Orwell got wrong about Big Brother was the date then :!:  :!:  :!:

Henry Webster:

--- Quote from: "Range Rover Blues" ---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?
--- End quote ---


I put the racer on the weighbridge when I got back from the Hillrally.  We didn't get a chance to wash it before we left so it was as it left the final stage.  

It came out at 1945kgs which is about 100kgs more than last time I weighed it.  At the very least 80kgs of that has to be mud.  Washed half of it last week and took 40kgs of mud off the drive and tht was just what I could get off.

We are going to look at modifying the mud traps before the next one!

H

hobbit:
Yes I mentioned this to them, and the fact is that it would be beneficial for people to pay for a pre mot inspection, especially if the motor is doubtful to pass, or the owner is not sure.

So looks like the local friendly garage thing is going further down the tubes, this is going to be fun, but not for the garage or the customer, just VOSA

Range Rover Blues:
Rich was telling me in some detail about the test, he's sort of in-charge of it there and it appears that what some of you have said is right, although if a slot is available it's yours, no pre-booking.  Which is funny because the test-on-demend stations have to pre-book now.  Apparently his gargage buys credits from the MOT or something and they can do that many test before buying some more.

On the subject of retests he said something about 'anything involving a measurement'. They can do retests but the car he was doing for me had been over a month, that would have been taking the p***.

The worst part for him is that he now has to put a card into the machine, book the car into the system to start the test, then log out.  Until he has finished that car he can't do another, not even a retest.  So he has to do the test itself then log back into the sytem and enter the test details, pass or fail.  They know how long the tester spent on the car so there is now a minimum time to allocate to the test ie no 'quickies' and even if the test is cancelled, the sytem knows!  It also has a frightening amount of detail about the car itself, which it may ask the tester to verify, such as colour, engine, trim etc.

What worse, there is now a database that knows what you car failed on, so if yo are refused a ticket for say faulty dampers, the scuffers know when they pull you up that your car was denied an MOT becuause it's unroadworthy! (this was always an offence but very hard for them to prove if your old MOT was still valid).

Big brother, big b****y Tony more like, cheezy grin-faced t***.

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