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Good morning members, Looks like another fine day.

Morningall. My van has got its test at 12:00pm.

Is it a written test Dermo, has it revised.

Dont know about that but its not going to pass anyway!

Are you sure........

feckin thing passed!! Need new brake discs on the back. He said they were very rusty and stopping the pads making decent contact. If the RSA ( Road Safety Authority ) stop me at a side of the road inspection, they'll take the van off me.

If it shows enough efficiency on the rolling road they should not fail it, In England anyway
Cant see inside a drum brake can they

Van i bought with Lexie passed this morning

no profit Reg need to pay your buyer.

Mcqueen wrote:If it shows enough efficiency on the rolling road they should not fail it, In England anyway
Cant see inside a drum brake can they

Thats what i was thinking as well. Might get it done anyway though for peace of mind. The brake readings were pretty low

It's all to do with load sensing, I guess what you carry around in the back of the van the majority of the time is nowhere near the vans maximum carrying capacity, therefore what happens is the front brakes end up doing all the work and the rears just rust up through lack of use...

Informative forum this innit...

sounds logical. but i dont know if my van is modern enough re: load sensing?? Wouldn't that mean it would have sensors? Its a bog standard Merc Vito thats 12 year old.

I would think it has one, Usualy siezed up too ,
You can have 4 different testers and 4 different mot fails, Vosa should do them and cut out the crap

There is an investigation going on here about 4 women who were killed in a crash. The autoengineer who was investigating said the car wasn't fit to be on the road. It had sat its NCT ( MOT ) 6 weeks previous. Investigator found severely worn ball joints. Witness to the crash said the car suddenly veered across the road into an oncoming truck. Wonder will anything be done about the car test examiner.

Not after 6 week i dont think, corrosion is a different matter tho
Its quiet easy to be broken off part way through an  Mot, then you go back and forget where you were up to, Few times i have done more work after getting back to base,
I have been using my place over 30 years, we trust each other, never had a problem yet
But cars are like women, you dont know whats coming next

3rdforum wrote:There is an investigation going on here about 4 women who were killed in a crash. The autoengineer who was investigating said the car wasn't fit to be on the road. It had sat its NCT ( MOT ) 6 weeks previous. Investigator found severely worn ball joints. Witness to the crash said the car suddenly veered across the road into an oncoming truck. Wonder will anything be done about the car test examiner.

Probably something more like, changing the cd, lighting a fag, speaking to someone, adjusting the radio, want a sweet, etc, had more to do with the accident than something technical...

Good morning members, Fog city here just now

Reg has severly worn ball joints. Morning all.

Adam Mint wrote:

3rdforum wrote:There is an investigation going on here about 4 women who were killed in a crash. The autoengineer who was investigating said the car wasn't fit to be on the road. It had sat its NCT ( MOT ) 6 weeks previous. Investigator found severely worn ball joints. Witness to the crash said the car suddenly veered across the road into an oncoming truck. Wonder will anything be done about the car test examiner.

Probably something more like, changing the cd, lighting a fag, speaking to someone, adjusting the radio, want a sweet, etc, had more to do with the accident than something technical...

Nope, it turns out 2 different engineers came up with the same answer. I can't find the original piece in the paper but I might have got it wrong re: ball joints. It might have been steering linkage that broke. . said that whatever went wrong would have caused sudden loss of control. I suspect something else. They were all coming back from some sort of all night prayer vigil with their prayer group ( 3 Nigerians and a daughter ). Could be falling asleep at the wheel!

Prayer night   that worked then act of god 

There's always one...

Do you know our locals canceled the pub quiz tonight so you lot can hum the dam busters tune...

Was in the local last St George's day, they've got a DJ/karaoke guy on doing all the English stuff, blue birds over the white cliffs of Dover, roll out the barrel, we'll meet again, etc, etc,,, he asks if anyone's got any requests, I shout out Flower Of Scotland,,, no feckin sense of humour the English have they.......

I went to St Georges school Penny just dropped what Innit was doing