Just had one of the local youths knock at the door asking for an Astra spring. The police made him follow them to the VOSA testing area & he now has the equivalent of a GV9 or prohibition... on a car????? He might have to have the whole car retested not just the new spring rechecked FFS. ::)
Fair enough, IMHO. Vehicle has been pulled with a serious defect so make sure it's tip top before it's back on the road. You need an MOT every year anyway. Shouldn't be that onerous.There goes my exhaust then. Seem like too many chiefs etc. Can't take a poo without some anorak who's attended a course, read a book been given a hi vis telling you how to wipe. :(
Kevin
QuoteFair enough, IMHO. Vehicle has been pulled with a serious defect so make sure it's tip top before it's back on the road. You need an MOT every year anyway. Shouldn't be that onerous.There goes my exhaust then. Seem like too many chiefs etc. Can't take a poo without some anorak who's attended a course, read a book been given a hi vis telling you how to wipe. :(
Kevin
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just like there used to be in the days of the escort and Cortina.
And there were a fair few rustbuckets of other makes making the rounds then as well!!
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just like there used to be in the days of the escort and Cortina.
And there were a fair few rustbuckets of other makes making the rounds then as well!!
I have you know that my Cortina was
a rot box too! ::) ::) ::)
Understood B. I'm not an anarchist, we need proper police to maintain, protect, serve etc. I accept we can't have ropey old cars/trucks flying about, fair go. Point is many Vosa operatives hav'nt a clue what they're doing. I'm not getting mixed up with the traffic d*ckheads who shut a motorway down because a sparrow got run over, imean Vosa. Recently the adr laws changed. The driver now only has to carry a dgn not a tremcard. Instead we have to carry a chart showing each class, related hazards & our adr. I was kept nearly 3 hours nr Huddersfield on the M62 because i could'nt show a tremcard which i no longer needed to carry. The bloke did'nt have a clue & tbh i don't blame him. Rules & regs have gone too far, i'd struggle to take all that on board just for it all to be updated again & again. Again we need rules for eveyones safety but i think i'm able to do my own risk assesment to climb a ladder & clean my upstairs windies/clear the guttering without having to achieve a degree in tower scaffolding without a minibus load of so called experts who probably live with thier mums & have never had a girlfriend & a helicopter hovering overhead in case i need a plaster or break a nail....enough is enough. Surely we can decide some things for ourselves? :oQuoteQuoteFair enough, IMHO. Vehicle has been pulled with a serious defect so make sure it's tip top before it's back on the road. You need an MOT every year anyway. Shouldn't be that onerous.There goes my exhaust then. Seem like too many chiefs etc. Can't take a poo without some anorak who's attended a course, read a book been given a hi vis telling you how to wipe. :(
Kevin
The VOSA check is just like the many 'Mermaid' stops that you, as an HGV (or LGV in newspeak) have undertaken. Its basically a roadside MOT. If the fella failed the roadside test then, ergo, he would have failed if he had taken the car for a full blown test that day.
We all know an MOT is barely worth the paper its written on but, if it were not for the testing, then there would be a fair old prportion of scrappy wrecks driving around now, just like there used to be in the days of the escort and Cortina.
And there were a fair few rustbuckets of other makes making the rounds then as well!!
... of so called experts who probably live with thier mums & have never had a girlfriend .......
I had the "roadside MOT" courtesy of Belfast Traffic Branch in 1978. The list of things they found wrong with my old HB Viva was so long that I took it to the local banger track that weekend and sent it out with a bang - literally. ::) ;DI love HB Vivas!!! 8-) :y
you cant have owned one then Guy. ::) ;D ;DIve had three mate. They were all white. One saloon that never ran right, one estate that only ran with a huge landrover battery that needed a sack to insulate it from the bonnet which had to be tied down, & another saloon white again with a red boot & bonnet, 2door SL90 with the better dash so the keys did'nt fall out on the floor when driving like a d*ck jumping over things in a place i should never have been & was banned. I was only 18 or 19 in old money!!!! ::)
Quote... of so called experts who probably live with thier mums & have never had a girlfriend .......
Sounds like a job for the OOF student!!! ::) ::) ::) ::) :y
Never had an HB but learned on my parent's HA. Amazing car could hold its own against my cousin's Brabham Viva round Romford's new ring road. Only 1056 if I recall but went like stink.
Those were the days. :)
you cant have owned one then Guy. ::) ;D ;D
I had a dark Green one (they were faster) :D....it was my first car. I was a tad mechanically unsympathetic - 5 clutches and 3 gearboxes in less than a year. I could change a clutch in around an hour by the time I was finished with it.
The engine was very asthmatic but I couldnt break it no matter how much abuse I gave it. Despite the fact that it was ,reallistically a heap of shite, I still have fond memories of it. :y ;D
No i did'nt own "one", i owned 3 HB's, 1 HA & 2 HC's....Quoteyou cant have owned one then Guy. ::) ;D ;D
I owned one, in a lovely shade of battleship grey (old home Fleet Grey) & I loved it, it never let me down & then I went & part ex'd it for a ALLEGRO!!! :D :y
QuoteQuote... of so called experts who probably live with thier mums & have never had a girlfriend .......
Sounds like a job for the OOF student!!! ::) ::) ::) ::) :y
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Steady Mark. You know i pride myself with only insulting people directly. Given the property prices in your neck of the woods & the career you've carved out for yourself i'd do the same in your shoes & build up a nest egg before buying a property.QuoteQuoteQuote... of so called experts who probably live with thier mums & have never had a girlfriend .......
Sounds like a job for the OOF student!!! ::) ::) ::) ::) :y
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
yeh cheers for that :(