Mot Changes

[Clydeside_Sheep]

Apparently MOTs are changing soon and faults will be classed as dangerous, major or minor. The first 2 cause an automatic fail, but a minor fault still passes but is required to be fixed asap.

 

You wonder why they would have 2 different categories for an automatic fail, instead of just "fail"??

 

New checks include things like are your tyres under-inflated and do your head-light washers work (if present). I expect some garages may be tempted to slather on the minor faults, meaning the car owner can drive away today but the garage has generated work for itself in the short term.

 

There are other differences such as a diesel will fail if any smoke of any colour is visible from the exhaust or if the DPF has been 'tampered' with.

 

Making diesels unattractive to own is a clear objective of this. All diesels get a bit smoky eventually - I had a diesel vectra with 120k on it and, if you really put your foot down, it would deploy a smokescreen to the rear of the car. It was awesome and like something out of "Wacky Races" or James Bond. However, there was nothing wrong with the car, just that the injectors were a bit dirty (after 120k miles) and this what caused the smoke. I wonder if that would now fail, or if the smoke has to be seen when idling?

 

Also, some diesel owners have the DPF or EGR functions removed from their car, given they often go on the blink and limit performance. Anyone who has done that may well be up shit creek now (to say nothing of businesses who do this kind of work).

 

Anyway, I have a feeling MOT are going to be a lot more expensive in future, and not just for diesel owners.

[beer gut]

Apparently MOTs are changing soon and faults will be classed as dangerous, major or minor. The first 2 cause an automatic fail, but a minor fault still passes but is required to be fixed asap.

 

You wonder why they would have 2 different categories for an automatic fail, instead of just "fail"??

 

New checks include things like are your tyres under-inflated and do your head-light washers work (if present). I expect some garages may be tempted to slather on the minor faults, meaning the car owner can drive away today but the garage has generated work for itself in the short term.

 

There are other differences such as a diesel will fail if any smoke of any colour is visible from the exhaust or if the DPF has been 'tampered' with.

 

Making diesels unattractive to own is a clear objective of this. All diesels get a bit smoky eventually - I had a diesel vectra with 120k on it and, if you really put your foot down, it would deploy a smokescreen to the rear of the car. It was awesome and like something out of "Wacky Races" or James Bond. However, there was nothing wrong with the car, just that the injectors were a bit dirty (after 120k miles) and this what caused the smoke. I wonder if that would now fail, or if the smoke has to be seen when idling?

 

Also, some diesel owners have the DPF or EGR functions removed from their car, given they often go on the blink and limit performance. Anyone who has done that may well be up shit creek now (to say nothing of businesses who do this kind of work).

 

Anyway, I have a feeling MOT are going to be a lot more expensive in future, and not just for diesel owners.

A fail is a fail. They are just adding more things to fail on. If you drive a rust bucket diesel then its time to get rid. Guaranteed the MOT price will increase. More checks = more time = more £££

[BrianFaePerth]

All that has been fairly standard in the EU for ages.

[Ke1t]

I just replaced the water pump on my Jeep...

 

I Dukes of Hazarded the fucker over a raised railway track not long ago, and it came down with a proper smack. I remember thinking at the time, "I bet I've fucking fucked something on this fucking thing." Shortly thereafter a yellowish/brown fluid started leaking underneath the engine.

 

I chose to ignore it because everything seemed to be working normally, but just this weekend the power steering went out. Turned out the water pump had gone and was leaking onto the power steering. So it was overheating inna,

 

Anyway, there's no mot here, which is fucking brilliant... you can drive a car in virtually any kind of condition, so long as the lights are working. Just today I saw some Ford SUV with the back made out of duct tape... was being driven by some mad looking bird who was screaming into her phone and posing a serious danger to everyone else on the road with her mental and unpredictable driving style. Followed her for a bit, hoping to see some real mayhem, but she took off on 14 mile and I was headed to I-75...

 

 

I've seen ghetto sleds and cars o' Riffs rattling along the freeway with shit literally flying off them as they hoor along at breakneck speeds far beyond the structural integrity of the vehicles in question. I've even seen one particular vehicle sitting in the middle of the aforementioned 14 mile Road blazing away like a Chinese Christmas Tree, with traffic just steaming past it like it was normal as fuck to see a blazing wreck exploding right there in traffic. My guess is that the driver just waited for the fire to go out, got back in and carried on like John Candy and Steve Martin in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

 

MOT's are a fucking rip. If you want to drive a piece of fucking shit until the wheels fly off and you're stranded half way to Peebles then that should be your prerogative. Forcing standards of vehicle maintenance on people is total bullshit. Maybe I fucking WANT the back of my SUV to be made out of duct tape... the fuck business is it of anyone else's? So long as my brake lights work and I'm staying in my lane at acceptable speeds then everyone else can suck my cock with their 'You need 1.6mm tread on your tyres or you can't drive on the road' pish. Your taxes pay for that road, so if you want to drive on it with under 1.6mm then you either are allowed to do so or the cunts need to start reimbursing your taxes.

[BWG]

Insurance is an absolute fucking scam and anyone associated with it is an arsehole.

[Poodler]

Insurance? LOL

[Redforever86]

Most basic car insurance, plus house/business insurance. Fuck all else.

 

Be alright.

[Zeus]

Car, hoose, life (waste of money covers fuck all)

[manboobs109]

I've been asked if I'd like to insure my kids shoes after I've just bought them.

 

No thanks you cunt. I'll buy a new pair once they're fucked.

As long as you've a few notes in your bank for the nippers if you pop your clogs there really isn't much need for insurance. Be a shame if they ended up skint when some Syrian blows himself up at one of your heavy metal things.

[Ke1t]

Back in The Great Flood Of 2014, during which time I went into a completely darkened semi-submerged house to rescue two of the neighbour's cats like the fucking hero I am (you will remember), the number of houses on our street that got the lower level of their properties absolutely fucked was in the majority.

 

Spoke to a few of the neighbours about how it's lucky they had flood insurance, and I reckon about half of them said their insurance companies found reason to only pay out on half their damages, and one of them was fighting the cunts to get a single penny out of them.

 

Any time I took out the 'bumper to bumper' insurance policies on cars in the past they've paid out the sum total of fuck all for any reason whatsoever... call them up, "Nope, that's not covered." Huge fucking surprise, that.

[dave_min]

Thanks to my good friends at Triathlon Scotland, I'm insured to swim, bike and run.

 

Bizarrely I have car insurance but no car.

[manboobs109]

Back in The Great Flood Of 2014, during which time I went into a completely darkened semi-submerged house to rescue two of the neighbour's cats like the fucking hero I am (you will remember), the number of houses on our street that got the lower level of their properties absolutely fucked was in the majority.

 

Spoke to a few of the neighbours about how it's lucky they had flood insurance, and I reckon about half of them said their insurance companies found reason to only pay out on half their damages, and one of them was fighting the cunts to get a single penny out of them.

 

Any time I took out the 'bumper to bumper' insurance policies on cars in the past they've paid out the sum total of fuck all for any reason whatsoever... call them up, "Nope, that's not covered." Huge fucking surprise, that.

That's why I don't understand why people get so upset about insurance fraud, like those poor cunts that got jailed for pretending to have the shits or that canoe cunt. Good luck to them I say.

[Ke1t]

That's why I don't understand why people get so upset about insurance fraud, like those poor cunts that got jailed for pretending to have the shits or that canoe cunt. Good luck to them I say.

 

Insurance fraud, like bank robbery, is a victimless crime.

 

Good luck to them, I say.

[dave_min]

That's why I don't understand why people get so upset about insurance fraud, like those poor cunts that got jailed for pretending to have the shits or that canoe cunt. Good luck to them I say.

That's even worse than murdering unborn children.

[Poodler]

 

Insurance fraud, like bank robbery, is a victimless crime.

 

Good luck to them, I say.

 

100% agree

[Clydeside_Sheep]

Back in The Great Flood Of 2014, during which time I went into a completely darkened semi-submerged house to rescue two of the neighbour's cats like the fucking hero I am (you will remember)

 

 

I somehow fail to recall this - I always remember the famous retaining wall however!

[Clydeside_Sheep]

I should have taken out "c*nts taking my MOT thread off-topic" insurance

[Clydeside_Sheep]

That's why I don't understand why people get so upset about insurance fraud

 

It puts all our policy costs up (or so they say).

 

Maybe they should offer "insurance rises because of insurance fraud" insurance.

[Clydeside_Sheep]

Anyway, there's no mot here, which is fucking brilliant... you can drive a car in virtually any kind of condition, so long as the lights are working.

 

That is wild, especially for a country so in love with litigation and law-suits.

[Redstar]

It puts all our policy costs up (or so they say).

 

Maybe they should offer "insurance rises because of insurance fraud" insurance.

You’re wasting your time...he’s from Dundee so won’t have insurance or an MOT...probably thinks nothing of getting behind the wheel steamboats either...he’s a low fellow Clydeside best steer clear chief.

[manboobs109]

Youre wasting your time...hes from Dundee so wont have insurance or an MOT...probably thinks nothing of getting behind the wheel steamboats either...hes a low fellow Clydeside best steer clear chief.

I like your wee barbed comments Redstar. You're like a straight Rumpus.

[Ke1t]

 

 

I somehow fail to recall this - I always remember the famous retaining wall however!

 

 

 

I somehow fail to recall this - I always remember the famous retaining wall however!

 

 

I don't like talking about it, obviously, because I'm a pretty modest guy who dislikes talking about my own heroic acts, even though they're... as you might expect... manifold and courageous.

 

The neighbours from a couple of houses down hadn't thought ahead when buying their house, and as such had bought a property that's in a bit of a hollow. When we bought ours we liked the fact that it was on a slight rise, because behind our house is a stream that can get pretty high when it storms for a couple of days.

 

Back in '14 it rained for days, like Biblical shit, and not only did the creek rise but it marched right up the 50 feet of sloped banks that serve as a flood plain.

 

All the silly cunts who'd bought houses without giving thought to the fact that there's a creek on their property were flooded out. We, on the other hand, stood like an island of forethought, dry and safe.

 

Anyway, one of those neighbours was in Florida at the time, and had someone coming in once a day to feed her cats and the like. On the day the creek rose they called our neighbour to say they couldn't get to the house because the roads were under water, and... oh, by the way I think your house might be under water inna. So the neighbour phoned us and begged us to go rescue her cats.

 

By this time it was pitch dark, the storm was still in full effect, and her property was under several feet of fast moving flood water. Most of the houses on our street had been abandoned at this point, so armed with a torch to see with, and a hammer in case her cats were scared and tried to fucking attack me (I could batter them to death and claim they'd probably escaped out a window or something) I strode out into the raging storm like the fucking hero I am... but am, as mentioned, too modest to talk about.

 

Wading into the water it quickly rose up to about knee height. I plunged on toward their house, and by the time I reached their garage... which she assured me was open.. I was up to my chest in black, freezing, debris filled water. The electrics had shorted out, so it was basically locked shut. I kicked in her garage doors (that's not a euphemism for anal, btw) until I could rip the fucker off its hinges... I figured I'd blame any damage on the flooding... and gained entry to the darkened house.

 

A search of the house revealed a couple of laptops in the bedroom... which I didn't even check for homemade porn, such was my commitment to the mission... and eventually I found the terrified cats cowering in one of the other bedrooms. I waved my hammer at them like the mighty god Thor... you know, the only real god... and commanded they get in the fucking cat carrier I'd located otherwise it was the hemmer for them!

 

Extricating myself from the house, without so much as nicking a beer from their fridge by way of reward, I returned triumphant to dry land, only pausing to check that the weird Albanian family was also okay and didn't need me to rescue them with my cats and my hammer. Being Albanian they spoke little to no English, and the conditions outside were still preferable to Albania* on its best day, so they were sorted.

 

They probably thought I was doing a spot of looting, tbf...

 

 

 

*Albania features heavily in a project I'm currently working on, btw... so keep an eye out for that.

[Poodler]

^ brilliant

 

Were you suitably rewarded, Kelt?

 

Did you have to look after the cats for a few days? Hope they didn't shit on the carpet

 

 

(Fuck you, i explained) hahaha

[Ke1t]

^ brilliant

 

Were you suitably rewarded, Kelt?

 

Did you have to look after the cats for a few days? Hope they didn't shit on the carpet

 

 

(Fuck you, i explained) hahaha

 

I was given no reward whatsoever, though I think the neighbour did say thanks to the wife when she got back.

 

The only reward I wanted, of course, was that my anonymity be preserved... like Batman. I didn't do it for the glory, I did it for the chance to batter a cat with a hammer.

 

To be honest I can't even remember what I did with the cats.

[fatjim]

When does this come in?

 

My MOT is due next week and I can't be arsed googling when the changes come into force.

[mcdougall(4)]

 

That is wild, especially for a country so in love with litigation and law-suits.

 

 

There's not an MOT per se but there are annual checks in most states