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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
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Brake pipes don't "self heal" with time
unfortunately not
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Brake pipes don't "self heal" with time
Just been watching Bangers and Cash and one of these is up for auction. Must admit I've never heard of it, but what an amazing car.
I tried to find the episode
https://youtu.be/25v9t_XELc4?si=V3Jl3oepuBumjNt1
https://youtu.be/uzh6dpCx2_U?si=mXAYO7tbyJX7HpLq
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A decelerometer is 'probably' used when driving the vehicle into the test bay .....
.....don't know about you .... but I've never seen the reverse lamps operate on my car when I'm driving it!
Reverse lights would have activated getting the vehicle off the ramp , or are you still at the test station waiting for your car .....
....I know .... which is why I specifically said 13 pin socket .... not just trailer socket.
13 pin sockets are testable when fitted ,7 pin are not (there is no standard wiring configuration for 7 pin) ....
....He put down what the odometer said .... which was the same as the previous year
The NT (Tester) should have noted the NON readable odometer on the certificate
what did he /she/them put as the milage ? did he/she/them look at the ECM data just guess or ask YOU ,the vehicle presenter to guess
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Just been watching Bangers and Cash and one of these is up for auction. Must admit I've never heard of it, but what an amazing car.
One thing that is mandatory ,yet I doubt ever gets tested .....
"speedometer is working correctly and gives an accurate reading"
obviously speedos are NEVER tested on AUDIs, Golf GTIs (or golfs pretending to be GTI, with Ebay badges,) etc
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Front fog lights are a testable item on cars first registered on or after 1 March 2018 also DRLs
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You need to test reversing lamps on vehicles first used from 1 September 2009.
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Just give a good hard shove, the desirable Signum will think it's having a colonoscopy.
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Changing the oil+filter is interesting, if car isn't high enough you can't drop undertray flap down enough, .....
you need a Pela oil-sucker-outerer
I'm of the old skool,, undo sump plug, and make a mess on the floor as the tray is positioned wrong,
Strange So how does the dip stick reach the oil if there's an obstruction ??....
Changing the oil+filter is interesting, if car isn't high enough you can't drop undertray flap down enough, .....
you need a Pela oil-sucker-outerer
My oil-sucker-outerer can't be pushed down far enough to suck the oil from my classic and highly desirable Vauxhall.
The tube is long enough but there is an obstruction of some kind.