whats pissed you off today?

[Iain]

I ran my bmw for half a year with no MOT it's amazing how you can get away with it. Totally forgot.

[Andy]

A lot of it is down to road behaviour and appearance imo
look like a solvent abuser and you're toast,same as if you're car smells like a Rastas ashtray then you're asking for it.i was on a country road yesterday and sat behind a car and could smell it with my windows closed from the car in front

[turbojolt]

Classic noob mistake not giving the mot tester enough monies to just pass it anyway

[turbojolt]

A lot of it is down to road behaviour and appearance imo
look like a solvent abuser and you're toast,same as if you're car smells like a Rastas ashtray then you're asking for it.i was on a country road yesterday and sat behind a car and could smell it with my windows closed from the car in front

Sorry about that

[Andy]

Nah the only smoke you will smell of Is burning oil

[Asa-James]

Wwmnw they can't fail a centre stop light. Have to "assume it's disconnected" if it doesn't work. Only way they could fail it is if it has multiple bulbs and less than 50% of it lights up. Tell the tester he's crap.

edit, testers manual section 1.2, stop lamps

"Additional stop lamps fitted and connected mustbe tested. Where extra lamps are fitted and there isdoubt as to whether they are connected, the benefitof this doubt should be given to the presenter. "

[wwmnw]

Wwmnw they can't fail a centre stop light. Have to "assume it's disconnected" if it doesn't work. Only way they could fail it is if it has multiple bulbs and less than 50% of it lights up. Tell the tester he's crap.

edit, testers manual section 1.2, stop lamps

"Additional stop lamps fitted and connected mustbe tested. Where extra lamps are fitted and there isdoubt as to whether they are connected, the benefitof this doubt should be given to the presenter. "

Ahh fair enough, its going to have to be scrapped anyway as it needs new brake pipes front to rear on both sides which will be over £100 plus rear drums and shoes so I bought a Volvo V40 estate... which needs a timing belt ffs but its a lot of car for £250

[turbojolt]

Screw that, 250 quid car just run it till the belt snaps proably won't anyway

[Jack]

Should be happy that I had the gt4 out for a spin today for the first time in just over a year, it's misfiring like a mother fucker. Something else I need to get to the bottom of now. In the 7 years of owning it I don't think I've had 3 months of problem free driving with it. Fml

Have you checked the plugs? Mine did that, turned out the centre cam cover gasket had gone and filled the plugs with oil

[Iain]

I had a scrap Volvo collected on Tuesday. Signed over the paperwork. Garden is tidy again. Happy Iain.

Except this morning my missus goes to post the paperwork and tells me I've signed over the wrong logbook for scrap and I've scrapped my daily ID Epic fail