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That's a new spin on "brakes feel wooden." ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike |
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Posted: 20:42 - 05 Dec 2017 Post subject: |
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Ah "illegal to use". To sell, perhaps. To use? What's the offence?
The MOT tests the performance of the brakes, not the material.
Apart from a few items (bike exhausts) it doesn't concern itself with the legality of the item, only its functionality.
Consider wooden brake shoes in a drum brake. How would they know? ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
GONE: HN125-8, LF-250B, GPz 305, GPZ 500S, Burgman 400 // RIDING: F650GS (800 twin), Royal Enfield Bullet Electra 500 AVL, Ninja 250R because racebike |
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The MOT can be a PIA or an inconvenience but Jesus knows what sort of Ram-shacks some cnuts would drive on public roads if there was no control.
I have worked in places where even though there is a government regulation to meet no cfuker gives a shit as it is not properly enforced so the roads are crowded with moving junk yards.
But at 04:00 in the morning when you are full of ale and potato sap any taxi home is a taxi home. ____________________ Disclaimer: The comments above may be predicted text and not necessarily the opinion of MCN. |
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Fact is, these days a fair percentage of motorists don't even know how to open their bonnets, never mind have a clue
what they are looking at once under there. The younger the motorist, the worse this phenomenon is. They use warning
lights to tell them things need attention so it's not a giant leap to assume those same people will swallow any old tosh
these places tell them needs doing as they are 'professional' mechanics I see the same thing in my game and regularly
witness people who can barely change a lightbulb in their own homes, never mind put up a shelf or do a bit of tiling.
They are usually a dab hand at pressing buttons though, which is probably a weak part of my own skill set.
I'm hopeless with techy things. But until they invent an app that can fit a kitchen, hang a door, fix a leak, lay a floor
change a wheel, fit a headlamp bulb, top up fluids etc, then more practical manual working people will always be
able to rinse people like them thouroughly, who can blame them? Sign of the times, although Kwik Fleece have been
at it for many years since long before the smartphone (zero life skills) revolution. Women are especially easy marks in
this aspect, as most have zero interest in anything of a practical nature throughout their lives, most of them can't even
cook any more, never mind anything else. Although I will concede they are totes awesome at photographing themselves
in a manner that makes them look slightly thinner.
How handy. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Tyhere are also a fair proportion of people who couldn't give a shit about a car.
I'm among them. I'll ignore a huge number of funny noises and weird running things and just keep driving it. I wore the brake piston right out of a car a couple of years back by serially ignoring the metal graunching noise. It also had a steel brake line rust through and rupture resulting in catastrophic brake failure. I'd have expected the second to have been picked up at an annual MOT before that happened?
I also have a mate who is a motorcycle mechanic by trade and a motorcycle MOT tester. He pulled into his yard the other day and the whole nearside front wheel, with hub attached, fell off his van having rusted through.
I'm not rolling about on the ground under a fucking car. It goes for an annual service and and MOT when necessary and it gets fluids when either a light comes on or I can't see out of the windscreen. It gets the tyres checked when it seems a bit splashier than normal in corners.
There are also a fair proportion of cars where you CANT do anything. You need a special tool to open the bonnet on some. It's the job of the guys doing the servicing to sort this shit out but alla they actually do is suck the old oil out through the dipstick and put fresh stuff in. The callipers on my last van were so seized, they had to be destructively removed. I'd consider it the job of whoever had the wheel off to change the tyres to at least look at the fucking thing. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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Mmm, I'm just about done with wrestling with modern cars.
I went to change the pads and discs on my Zafirea only to discover that unless you have it up on a ramp or are prepared to disassemble most of the front end, you can forget having enough access to remove the caliper bolts (lulz at YouTube videos showing them easily winding out), let alone have the discs off.
There's an EML on which I determined was a temperature sensor, then promptly ignored. It gets reset before each MOT. SRS light got reset without a second thought.
They get tyres, oil and filters, I even did the plugs on the Zafirea, but beyond that, not one penny more than the MOT turns up. They're not my pride and joy, and I'm happy to let their multiply redundant (and expensively failure-prone) safety systems look after me. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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I changed a lightbulb on the wifes car at the weekend.
Had to jack it up, take the wheel out and remove the wheel arch card to get at it.
The only reason I did it is the last two garages it's been taken to for a new bulb didn't do this, they somehow enviegaled it in via the bonnet.
The first one didn't get the back cover on properly and landed up with a steamed up light unit. The second one did something that blew the lighting fuse and relay on his first attempt (I assume he tried to connect it with the headlamp switch on and grounded the wire to the chassis). That's the one I just had to replace again, 2 months later so presumably he also touched the glass of the bulb.
So. In many ways, garages are their own worst enemy and that's at least in part why this kind of shit happens.
If I put a car into ANY garage, I would have no confidence at all that the job it was in for would be done at all or done properly. So pay a fortune for someone to fuck a job up, bodge it yourself of ignore the funny noise/flashy light? Only one of these costs you anything up-front.
There was a thread a while back about a lass who bought a new corsa and just drove it. It got tyres, fuel and screenwash, nothing else. It finally shat itself at 85k miles, cambelt, lunched top-end. I worked out she was about £500 up after replacing the engine with a recon one compared to having it serviced from new.
Makes you wonder how long it would have lasted if someone had thrown a new cambelt at it at 50k? ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 134 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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