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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: waspy on 22 August 2012, 17:35:17
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Looks like the end of all modified cars now & for the future >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
KCUF the EU & the quicker we tell them so the better.
http://www.the-ace.org.uk/armageddon/
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/doc/roadworthiness-package/com(2012)380.pdf
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>:( >:( load of 'dangle berries' the them to breakoff >:( >:( >:( >:(
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It doesn't surprise me at all. Individuality doesn't sit well in a society increasingly designed for drones.
There are a lot of things people are still able to do to cars in Britain that you aren't able to do in Spain. For example tyres. The only fitments are those specified by the manufacturer as original fitment. No putting 18 inch wheels on an Omega with 40 profile tyres. It would fail the annual MOT. Another is just because one model had a feature e.g. bull bar on a 4x4 if it isn't on your V5 log book for the car then it fails the MOT.
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Suppose that would render LPG conversions useless too then??? :( :( :(
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That EU document is the most long winded load of nothingness I've ever read. We're really getting our money's worth out of them. ;D
Don't forget their proposal for 2 yearly MOT testing that got binned.
Proposals for testing caravans and trailers have been kicked into the long grass time and time again.
If it does happen, though it'll be thanks to the chavs running round with dangerous aftermarket HIDs, ridiculous lowering mods and de-catted exhaust systems, I'm afraid. Something has to be done about the minority of "modded" cars that have been altered so incompetently that they are a danger. I also don't disagree that a car should meet the standards it left the factory with. There's just no need to disable air bags, ABS, etc., reduce emissions performance and so on. If you are going to modify a car, do it to a decent standard. That said, if this legislation is what it's being trumped up to be (and no way of telling by reading the load of waffle posted) it will go further than that.
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Complete idiots, 'free country', what a joke! >:( >:( >:(.
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This is pretty much what has already been proposed for motorcycles, and against which there have been numerous demonstrations. The biking community have been saying all along that it would be coming for cars as well.
Maybe time for some joined up campaigns!
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http://fbhvc.co.uk/2012/08/23/eu-roadworthiness-testing/
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I would imagine there's quite a bit of business in the industries surrounding modifying cars, classic cars, kit cars and the like in this country.
There are also quite obviously huge flaws in the proposed legislation, i.e. how to you get a car manufacturer that went out of business 30 years ago to declare what size jets should be fitted in one of their carbs?
The combination of the above should prompt the UK government to throw it out, of course.
I expect quite an uproar if they don't.
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I can't see this happening for so many reasons, I don't know where to begin. How will they police it? Also would this mean I can't fit late Elite wheels to my early facelift Elite?
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What you have to think is
if the eurocracts"whoops" Germans "whoops" 4th Reich want to bring a law in they just do it as Europeans are still scared of Germany,due to its wealth and control of the euro.
. Won't happen here due to the ammount of jobs there are in the classic/modified industry.
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I can't see this happening for so many reasons, I don't know where to begin. How will they police it? Also would this mean I can't fit late Elite wheels to my early facelift Elite?
Yes. You cannot in Spain. I had the devils own job when I registered my UK spec Elite. But fortunately had the handbook in the glove compartment with wheel and tyre sizes that the car left the factory with. The inspector at first said they were none standard fitment. Couldn't even have W as opposed to V rated tyres either as they weren't "listed". Barmy as they are standard on the 3.0 Elite.
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Minds at rest for now at least...
http://pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=26260
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All comes down to money in the end, if it was free to implement, no doubt it would be allowed in.
But as we are broke & it costs money to implement & police we are saying no ;D
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Politicians involving themselves in practical applications.
Think of the mentality these people have after reading about that idiot mp and his wheel nuts. Ill informed, arrogance from someone who has not the first clue in common sense to even THINK about asking a question about a fault on a car without sounding like the total moron that he is.
An attitude thats makes me believe he'll be quite happy to stand up in parliament and and ban removable wheels from cars completely. Then do the same thing again to bring in legislation to allow wheel removal the first time he has a rather puncture.
Arseholes in Beemers the lot of em. Line em up against a wall.
Then, look at the other end of the scale, and the guy round the corner from me who decided to fit wheel spacers between the wheel and hub without making the wheel bolts longer. Then wonderd why his left front wheel fell off at the first roundabout.
It's these sorts of things, as Kevin has said so often, that will f@ck it up for the rest of us. While the perpetrators carry on regardless of any rules or sense what so ever.
Morons at the top of the pile, morons at the bottom. Can we lock them in a room to deal with each other, and leave the rest of us the hell alone. >:(
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I got a free length of rope with the Mail on Sunday this morning if you want to borrow it ? ;D
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I got a free length of rope with the Mail on Sunday this morning if you want to borrow it ? ;D
Albs, I know for a fact you get a free length of rope every day with your Daily fail. ;D
In fact the Fails rope comes with the knot pre tied and ready to go. ;D
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I reckon your a secret reader tbh. Paper boy delivers it inside a copy of the Guardian. ;) ;D
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I reckon your a secret reader tbh. Paper boy delivers it inside a copy of the Guardian. ;) ;D
Theres a guy reads it at work. We often gather round to look, in awe, at the utter misery it presents, out of the most un assuming situations.
It really should come with free gun club membership and single live round. Sigh...
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Reality/misery - often difficult to distinguish between the two where news is concerned.Watch any tv news bulletin,little if any good news. No denying it sensationalises non stories at times,but then it is a tabloid. It has unfailingly exposed the whole new liebore project against a shitstorm of resistance over the years,and I will always respect it for that.There are some excellent writers on the Fail.Max Hastings in particular.I suppose the alternaitve is to read the Sun showbiz pages,no bad news there.
Telegraph is often a better read (though it shares several writers with the Fail) but its too expensive for tomorrows chip wrapper.
The Mail also exposes the left wing lunacy which pours out of the EU, such as the nonsense which this thread is about.
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I can see mass demonstrations coming along on this, there are far too many modified cars in this country and a lot of them are done to a high standard you just have the minority who do not know what they are doing, if this legislation was to be put through it would put many tuning and modifying companies out of business, this would be going against the governments plans to increase jobs throughout the country.
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As said though, it's only a proposal. Although these things have a habit of not going away. As often happens on here, once the point has been made publicly, however idiotic, it will be backed to the hilt, rather than back down on a bad job.
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Reality/misery - often difficult to distinguish between the two where news is concerned.Watch any tv news bulletin,little if any good news. No denying it sensationalises non stories at times,but then it is a tabloid. It has unfailingly exposed the whole new liebore project against a shitstorm of resistance over the years,and I will always respect it for that.There are some excellent writers on the Fail.Max Hastings in particular.I suppose the alternaitve is to read the Sun showbiz pages,no bad news there.
Telegraph is often a better read (though it shares several writers with the Fail) but its too expensive for tomorrows chip wrapper.
The Mail also exposes the left wing lunacy which pours out of the EU, such as the nonsense which this thread is about.
The story's are the same Albs. It's what the individuals make of it, to whatever end, that's important. The Fail could not be more negative in all that it sees. Which explanes a lot.
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Youve obviously glanced at the headlines here and there and not read any of the in depth editorials,therefore reinforcing the opinion which is force fed to people by the lefty luvvies who populate most of the media outlets in this country.
Theres plenty of positivity in there if you want to see it and dont want to ignore or skip over it.
Plenty of feelgood factor here.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2196797/What-Storey-Cycling-queen-Sarah-watches-husband-Barney-grab-gold-pedals-away-own.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/mailonsunday/index.html
And articles like this need writing,but would never see the light of day in most of the press.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2193997/Teachers-howling-anguish-GCSE-grades-betraying-pupil-future.html
Anyway,were now deviating way of the topic and even the purpose of this section.
Negative people might start having a moan. ;D
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Utter 'dangle berries'! ;D
Apart from the off topic bit of course.
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Minds at rest for now at least...
http://pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=26260
Good news here at least. :y
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Utter 'dangle berries'! ;D
Apart from the off topic bit of course.
I bow to your considered opinion. :y ::)