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[andy.j]

PT370Z, on 12 January 2012 - 10:29 PM, said:

Before the Government thinks about making the MOT harder to pass, they should start by making sure the existing MOT and insurance laws are adhered to and enforced and get all the uninsured, unMOT'd and unlicensed vehicles and drivers off the road !

I read a report recently which stated that the Government estimated that there were over one million illegal cars and drivers using the UK roads. The Police should concentrate on getting these "persons" off the road and not nick drivers for doing 88.4mpg on a deserted motorway at 2am in July.

Rant Over!!!!

Paul.

You get 88.4 mpg in you zed? Wow! Totally get your point though.

[A Pair Of Flabby Wings]

A Pair Of Flabby Wings, on 11 January 2012 - 10:54 PM, said:

Bloody British authorities over-implementing European guidance.

MaDMaXX, on 12 January 2012 - 01:46 AM, said:

Seriously, what is with them doing this?!!!! I've seen it so much, they see a "directive" from you'rope and they go bonkers with it, completely to the letter. But they're never thought out well enough, or intended to be stuck to by the letter, it's the european way, they do not think or operate like the British.

Anyway....

ajpac, on 12 January 2012 - 10:15 AM, said:

True we are always being castigated for not being 'good Europeans' yet our politicians have blindly accepted and implemented EEC rulings over the years. Other countries just ignore them; Italy and Greece come to mind and if you really want a nationalist country think France. Two wars to save Europe and the buggers just walk all over us. Rant over

No, I think David (MaDMaXX) has the right take on this. It's more a British problem than anything else. We like beating ourselves up with rules, or certainly some of us do (your typical Town Hall bureaucrat, for example, and you'll know the kind of person I mean), and the more the better as far as they are concerned.

Effectively I see it as more we enjoy walking over each other here - it's probably a tribal or perhaps an imperialist thing - and then just use the fact the original guidance came from Europe as a distraction.

[A Pair Of Flabby Wings]

There was a double-page spread in my local paper about the new MOT rules at the end of last week.

The crux of it seems to be, as I thought, that these changes will ". . . clarify what testers already do". I thought from the look of most of the rules that it is just getting rid of the vagaries that sometimes allowed some things to be got away with if you went to the "right" testing station.

Apparently the "cat" part of the new rules is primarily aimed at pre-1993 vehicles, which did originally have cats fitted, but many have since been removed. As far as I'm concerned, if (and, further to PT370Z's very appropriate post above, it's a big if) it gets a few more badly-modified and/or badly-maintained cars off the road (I'm thinking ratty rust-buckets) that is not a particularly bad thing.

[Greg Warnes]

Today my zed went for a P3 service and MOT.

The car failed the MOT because my LED Fog light was not the correct colour red and not bright enough!

Quite bemused by this news, i asked the garage what criteria had changed from last year as the car passed the previous year, i was told not a lot. I asked the garage to show me what criteria they were using, which they have.

I asked who tested the car this year and was happy told the persons name, i then enquired who had passed it last year, they happily divulged this also. I then asked why one had passed it and the other had not and was told its down to their personal discretion!

I commented that the MOT was a standard to which all cars was tested on a level playing field so to speak, which they agreed, but obviously the playing field can change dependant on who is playing.

I got very bored at this point and left the garage with the car.

So i now need to refit the old fog light assembly and return to the garage for them to issue a MOT.

To top it off they also changed the engine coolant that i had changed last week and charged me for it, the schedule is 3 years or 36000 miles and as they changed the fluid last year i am going back tommorrow for a refund.

Need a beer.

OH AND DONT USE MARTINS NISSAN WINCHESTER, WHAT A BUNCH OF USELESS (enter your own word here)

[Paul_S]

That's rough

I guess it's not worth risking changing the bulb for a nice bright white one and covering the lens with some red film as a temporary measure?

[bigtone]

anyone want to buy a clear fog light lens unbelievable

[Chilli Red]

bigtone, on 10 February 2012 - 04:14 PM, said:

anyone want to buy a clear fog light lens unbelievable

and you are??

[bigtone]

forgettable by the looks of it

[Chilli Red]

[MaDMaXX]

Ouch

[Puddenchucker]

My 350Z, which is now 8ish years old just passed its MOT without issue.

I was a bit worried the screenwash would be frozen solid as the temp gauge was reading -11C on the drive to the testing station.