Service booklet potate'd

[iginge]

Straight to the chase, service booklet left on kitchen side last friday and I've just picked it up to move it and it was soaking wet, pressed the front against the radiator and it just fell off, most of the pages of the booklet are crinkled and wet.. although the two services recorded are readable..

Is the service book something that a dealership can replace?

[andys675]

yes, they have a part number like any other part, get the parts guy to look it up on the part file and price one up
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[iginge]

Cheers, i'll be sure to ring them tomorrow and ask them about a replacement.

Just a quick one as well as I'm a newer rider.. do you have to carry your license, pass certificate etc around with you all the time.. they've been in my bad for a short while and are a little crinkled, I'd rather keep them at home.

I have a provisional with a CBT (if that changes anything).

[-Matt-]

[iginge]

[Dave70]

After one of my crashes, I went to hand my licence and certs to the copper that arrived on the scene. He made it clear that he didn't want to see them and told me to produce them within seven days at the local station.

I now don't bother carrying them with me.
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[-Matt-]

[talkToTheHat]

I carry colour photocopies (done with multifunction printer thing) clearly marked as a copy in case someone got super pedantic about forgery. I have a taped up plastic wallet that lives in each jacket with everything I should show if stopped/crashed. Been riding 3.5 years, used it maybe 6 times, 2 collisions and some minor plod botherance. It works well for passing the attitude test, particularly when stopped by a non-traffic copper trying to verify everything because you managed to lose the numberplate.

Insurance cert, CBT as required, mod 2 pass certificate whilst waiting for licence update, restriction certificate as required, counterpart, list of numbers to phone (RAC, insurance, she who will kick my ass if I do something stupid, friend with van/trailer/some kind of intimidating posse)

I could and do keep all of these in my phone. I smashed my phone in the first of those crashes, so paper backup always handy.
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[iginge]

[-Matt-]

[iginge]

I was just using the "L" plate as the only example I could think of in which my documents would need to be produced, and in honesty I always carry spares with me in the event the rear falls off so isn't an issue (fixed roadside).. more the tape that holds it on has come loose a little, it's clearly displayed so technically isn't illegal..

As mentioned above with the "crash scenario" a producer was issued then.. so really based on that case it's not worth leaving papers to get crunched up and in a bad shape for something (cops pulling you over) that either might never happen or will only happen (hopefully) once in a blue moon.

[andys675]

Never carry mine, after one pig took it off me to send in for endorsing, he gave me some print out to cover me in the mean time, I didn't like this so I'm not carrying mine any more, or handing it over at the roadside.
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[stinkwheel]

I should point out a techincality because some things are being stated as fact in this thread that are not accurate.

It is a criminal offence under the Road Traffic Act 1988 to fail to produce your driving licence or certificate of motor insurance when requested to do so by a police officer in uniform.

Just so as you know.

There is a statuatory defence to this offence of producing it within 7 days or as soon as was reasonably practicable.

Naturally, if you have produced it later in such a fashion, the police are unlikely to prosecute you for said offence (knowing you have a defence) but you still broke thew law by failing to produce.

Your provisional motorcycle licence is invalid unless accompanied by a CBT certificate.
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[pdg]

The cynic in me says that police patrols have targets for the amount of 'paperworks' issued per shift.

A 'producer' is 1 paperwork, but checking your documents at the side of the road isn't...

From experience, if you hand over all your documents when stopped, it's likely that there will be a 'look over' happening so that the '1 paperwork' can be issued for something else instead. After all, they've already stopped you.
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[stinkwheel]

[blueglue]

[talkToTheHat]

I can't say I've done double blind testing, but I'm convinced having your paperwork or a photocopy of such goes a long way to convince the officer that stopped you that you are probably not up to something mischievous.

When I was stopped with no number plate, it could have turned into all kinds of hell rather than being told to turn around and find it and being offered zip ties.

When I was stopped by an asshole in an unmarked car for avoiding a diesel spill he hadn't seen, he went through my paperwork and checked the bike looking for something to do me for. that ended in his colleague telling him he was going a bit far

When I got rear ended, having my documents together and being calm and polite worked out well for me. Particularly as I called the police becasue the other driver was refusing to confirm his identity or insurance details and was the model of not calm.

I'm not saying having your papers will let you get away with murder, but it is occaisonally helpful.
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