but it keeps the belt lubricatedLost ones oil filler cap?
Then no worries, just replace it with a temporary fuel cap instead, and whilst you're at it, make sure it leaks like hell and is also fouling the cam gear, just like this..
Biennial MOT tests
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And everything else it leaked onto, including me.but it keeps the belt lubricated
Sadly not enough to fail it though, despite how dumb of an idea it was.
Here in Ireland, cars are due an NCT (our MOT equivalent) when they turn 4 years old and are done every 2 years then until the car is 10 years old and it's then annually. The biggest downside to the NCT here is it's a government contract awarded to Applus and can only be completed at their test centres where, the last time I had to book one, there were no tests for ~6 months. I did eventually get one sooner, but if it was similar to the UK system of mechanics/Halfords etc being able to do them there'd likely be much fewer delays.
Underboss
so basically bi-annual MOT
Soldato
@JonRGV250
Not sure this is worth it's own thread so posting here.
Car SORNed, expired MOT, but insured.
Aside from pre booking the MOT, do I need to anything to drive the car to the test? Then I just need to tax it once it has an MOT?
Not sure this is worth it's own thread so posting here.
Car SORNed, expired MOT, but insured.
Aside from pre booking the MOT, do I need to anything to drive the car to the test? Then I just need to tax it once it has an MOT?
Yup, just make sure you have confirmation of the booking, because if the police stop you on the way to the MOT station they'll want to see it, or they'll call the garage to double check (they do this before they prosecute you for not having one if you can't prove otherwise).
Soldato
Thanks. Would an email from the garage confirming the booking be sufficient proof?
Don
This is the best thread in Motors. luckily we have nothing approaching the levels of JustRolledIn in the UK. Some of those cars are seemingly held together with chewing gum, thoughts and prayers.
Yep seen those vids and it's just madness
Soldato
Lost ones oil filler cap?
Then no worries, just replace it with a temporary fuel cap instead, and whilst you're at it, make sure it leaks like hell and is also fouling the cam gear, just like this..
How often would you say you see this level of crap and seriously dodgy cars?
About every 45 minutes
In all seriousness, several times a week.
A friend of mine is trying real hard to persuade me to go work with him at a JLR main dealer, but I think I’d miss all the madness I see where I am now.
A mate of mine worked at a JLR dealership as a mechanic and lasted a year before jacking it in, he got fed up of seeing the same cars come in over and over again and eventually the final nail was when he rewired an entire Range Rover only for it to need redoing a couple of months later as one of the CANBUS modules bricked itself and killed the whole CAN system.
Don
What amazes me are the amount of "Customer declined repairs and drove the car away" when the entire back of the car is held together with rebar that been welded by a blind man on his first day on the job as an apprentice dental technician.Hadn't heard of that so just checked it out on YT...
Holy mother of god....
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Soldato
The car is completely fine, it's the mechanic trying to scam the customer and abuse their position of power!
Those white cords on the tyre showing are just a sign that it's well made.
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Commissario
Those are the good ones, I'm sure some of the stuff he's shown is basically bubblegum and sting.
IIRC the US has something like twice the death rate we have when allowing for miles travelled which is really not surprising given the state of a lot of their cars, and the fact it seems in many places in America you get your driving licence in with your captain crunch cereal.
One of the things I'll probably never forget - driving through Michigan and seeing someone pass me with the driver's side door entirely rotted out at one side so you could see their feet operating the pedals through the holes. I remember just thinking at the time you'd never get away with that here.
That said I was looking at tyres recently for the Qashqai and the "most bought" model are unsurprisingly very cheap and have shockingly bad reviews to the point it makes me wonder how they are legal with comments like "does not stop in the wet", "went sideways on a roundabout at low speed".