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[Nick W]

And now it's done. Failed the re-test due to the huge tester setting the SRS light off again, and the newly adjusted and working handbrake pulling the cable apart.


So, one new cable and a sensibly sized tester it's legal again and I don't  need to worry about taking Mum's Focus on holiday in a couple of weeks.

[amba]

Has Hazel,s employed "The Incredible Hulk" as a MOT tester ,Nick.

Think you have a case of car abuse there 

[tigers_gonads]

And now it's done. Failed the re-test due to the huge tester setting the SRS light off again, and the newly adjusted and working handbrake pulling the cable apart.


So, one new cable and a sensibly sized tester it's legal again and I don't  need to worry about taking Mum's Focus on holiday in a couple of weeks.

I'd be looking for a new test station if it was me

[Nick W]

Why?
Having sorted the actual problems, they suggested that the other tester check my work and that was it done.
It was annoying, but that limited amount of hassle is worth the lack of grief in other respects; they're 100m down the road, I pay £35 for the test and nothing for re-tests, they know they won't be getting any work out failures, and are generally accomodating. I see no reason to change.

[tigers_gonads]

Why?
Having sorted the actual problems, they suggested that the other tester check my work and that was it done.
It was annoying, but that limited amount of hassle is worth the lack of grief in other respects; they're 100m down the road, I pay £35 for the test and nothing for re-tests, they know they won't be getting any work out failures, and are generally accomodating. I see no reason to change.

Retest or retests ?
Up here, you only get 1 freebee.
Either way, if some w@nker had pulled on my handbrake hard enough to snap / damage the cable then I would be spitting blood or he would be

Your car, your choice 

[Nick W]

Retest or retests ?
Up here, you only get 1 freebee.
Either way, if some w@nker had pulled on my handbrake hard enough to snap / damage the cable then I would be spitting blood or he would be

Your car, your choice 

If you'd actually seen the state of the old one(which I knew was poor, but was hoping to get away with), you'd know that would be overreacting. The steel, locating plug on the end of the cable outer was so rusty the flange was non-existent and it pulled back through the mount. The only reason it hadn't happened earlier was that the h/brake was both ineffective and rarely used. This sort of thing is a good example of why the MOT is necessary; I would probably have left the job until it failed in use, and I have no excuse for not fitting a £20 part aside from not wanting to grovel about under the car to do it.

[tigers_gonads]

Retest or retests ?
Up here, you only get 1 freebee.
Either way, if some w@nker had pulled on my handbrake hard enough to snap / damage the cable then I would be spitting blood or he would be

Your car, your choice 

If you'd actually seen the state of the old one(which I knew was poor, but was hoping to get away with), you'd know that would be overreacting. The steel, locating plug on the end of the cable outer was so rusty the flange was non-existent and it pulled back through the mount. The only reason it hadn't happened earlier was that the h/brake was both ineffective and rarely used. This sort of thing is a good example of why the MOT is necessary; I would probably have left the job until it failed in use, and I have no excuse for not fitting a £20 part aside from not wanting to grovel about under the car to do it.

Oh dear, now I understand 

I can't say much if i'm honest 
I'm the bloke who stopped his car around the corner from the MOT station, 2 years in a row to empty half a can of brake cleaner on the rear shocks chrome bits because of a "slight misting" of oil which kept getting pulled up as a advisory when the MOT was done 
The things you do to keep your car on the road when your skint