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Oooh, intermittent faults are everyones favourite type aren't they.



Out here, the equivalent does include a functional brake test, but it's done on road with a little box that sits in the car and measures the deceleration rate (that's how our small local place does it - bigger places maybe have rollers, I dunno).

One of the things that led to the mighty Falcon failing its inspection was the replacement steering wheel not having an air bag. Because the car originally came with an airbag fitted, and the airbag light was on the dash, it was not acceptable even though it had passed in the exact same state the previous 3 times. The argument was basically summarised as "If it didn't come with it, fine, but if the the car originally came with this safety feature, it has to be there and working, or it's a fail"

I seem to remember some uncertainty about spare tyres, years ago, in a discussion with my dad. He was of the impression that a spare wasn't needed (indeed, lots of cars don't have them now) but if the spare was in the car it had to be in roadworthy condition. Come MOT time, if the spare wasn't looking good it'd just get left in the shed. We never really asked for clarification or looked any further into it.

Also, about LCDs and dead pixels, I see new cars with the fancy screen instead of dials looking all cool and fancy and I WANT, but have wondered about the longevity and the ease of replacement in future, in comparison to old fashioned dials.

Not been on this page a while.. Has Heathly got that mustang yet?

No, he's keeping the Seat forever now so he can spend all his money on consoles and PC upgrades.

Which is the most sensible thing I've heard in this thread for ages.

It's possible to wire a resistor of a suitable value into the airbag connector to fool the system into thinking an airbag is there. No more airbag light, no problems at inspection time!

I actually want to 'like' this post!

You can.

I think the button has gone.

Someone was probably spamming it for lulz

£451.00, 775 views, 69 watchers, 1d 18h left to go.

I don't

'm not sure how I'd feel about doing something like that nowadays, to be honest. Ah well, the mighty Falcon is long gone now. I got $100 for scrapping it.

Aaaaand they're going to try and get Land Rover to replace the car for the multiple manufacturing defects they now accept exist and won't buff out, in addition to them fucking up the paint.

If JLR won't play ball, well then they'll just have to take the keys back and return a bunch of cash.

Because respraying stuff, their other suggestion, really isn't fucking on.

How long have you been waiting? How long is a replacement going to take!

11 weeks from order to delivery, plus this week of them fucking us about, up to 2 more for JLR to decide, then I guess up to another 12 (or 0, depending). But we get to keep this one til whatever result occurs.

£526.00, 992 views, 83 watchers, 4 hours to go. The excitement is building.

I'd love it if this ended up being the car that Hearthly buys.

Final price... £900! Let's see if he actually turns up and pays that...

Well,I got the closest guess in monetary terms, even if he does pay

True, does that make your guess invalid though. We need a lawyer.
(I'm currently watching Suits...)

£900 is a result if he does pay, if someone had offered me £500 I would have bitten their hand off.

Well, that was quick, dude has picked up the car already.

Has he paid?

Nah, he promised to pay me tomorrow, and crossed his heart. I did a quick check for crossed fingers and it was ok, so i let him take it.

Noice! I mean, assuming it's real money, which it surely is.

Phew! Good work.

Did he ask about the ABS light?

He was a trader and drove it away on trade plates. Which makes no difference to it not having an MOT, but he owns it, so it's up to him what he does with it.

Actual notes and everything!

You can tell the dvla online that you have sold a car these day, no need to post in the V5. That makes life a lot easier, let me just go online and do that.

Online notification can only be done between 7am and 7pm.

WTF?

It's probably monitored by humans

a) Why does it need to be monitored by humans as a live service? It's just car ownership notification that used to be done via the post.
2) Why can't I submit my notification to a queue and they process it when they get in tomorrow? What's the difference between that and opening the post in the morning?
iii) Why does it need to be monitored by humans at all? Transaction cost goes through the roof when you do that. The whole point of the new GOV.UK (has to be typed as all caps, because that's the brand and I used to get told off for not giving a shit about that) was to reduce transaction cost.

V5 doesn't even indicate ownership, as the forms happy point out repeatedly. Just the person who wants to get the tickets and jail time.

Yeah, the difference between owner and registered keeper has always seemed a little arbitrary and weird.

Like you say, the V5 doesn't denote ownership, yet if you want to sell or buy a car, it's the V5 that gets transferred over. The V5 says:
"Registered keeper: I declare that I sold this vehicle etc..."
Surely to be able to make that declaration, you need the owner to sign, not the registered keeper? As you can't sell something that doesn't belong to you.
The V5 also says "Selling or transferring your vehicle etc... - please fill in this section" but it's for the registered keeper to fill in, not the owner, so it may well not be "my" vehicle.

Yeah. All very odd. Definitely a workaround for SOMETHING, but I bet no one has any clue what anymore.

Maybe another "government can't maintain id on citizens" thing?

Didn't you work on a load of the recent .gov online services revamp?

Hence my incredulity, if that was one of my services, shit like that wouldn't happen.

Only criminals sell cars outside those hours.

Sorry, "change the registered keeper."

What's the link for this? When I sold Jem's Skoda earlier in the year (but not that long ago) everything was quite clear that you couldn't do it online and that you needed to post the V5 back.

Same with changing the address on the V5.

https://www.gov.uk/sold-bought-vehicle

Address change still has to be done via paper, I think.
edit: yeah, that's still a paper process
https://www.gov.uk/change-name-address-v5c

For reasons.

Good reasons I expect, or could be crap reasons.

Hello there is a new car again. The Leon did just a smidge over six months.

This is a Jan 2015 (facelift) Focus ST-2, 33K miles. It's got the 2 litre turbo putting out 250bhp.

This was a straight swap, he gave me £15K for the Leon and put it back out at £16K, so can't really complain. His price on the Focus was pretty sound too, it's an ST-2 but it has some nice upgrades on it, mainly the Nav + Sync2 which is good as it gets the big touchscreen, rear parking sensors, and a couple of other bits and pieces. It's most of the way to ST-3 spec but apparently Ford dealers were doing some big discounts on ST-2 + goodies at the time (early 2015).

It's less mental than the Type-R but a lot more fun than the Leon - manages to be a nice daily driver but really good fun when you wind it up a bit.

I got it just in time for TT fortnight and the one-way mountain road, it managed 144mph on the mountain mile. If you read up on the thing it's very well regarded as a great hot hatch.

Oh yes there's a guy who goes out on the mountain and takes pics of everything that comes past then puts them on his site, you can get your pic off him without the watermark for a tenner. This is the watermarked version.

I am on the 'wrong' side of the road but the road is one-way, hence the NO ENTRY signs behind me as people who spectate in that area are reminded that they can't go back into Ramsey that way and have to go all the way round the course into Douglas and then go back.

Nice, love both the Focus and Fiesta ST.

Nice. Yeah, I like the new fast fords, my brother mad the Fiesta ST for a while.

Totally got your face and reg number for D0XX1NG

Looking good!

I was very tempted by some nice Fiesta STs that he'd had over the weeks, but of course they're three doors and would induce THE ARCHED EYEBROW OF MRS HEARTHLY.

I snaffled up this Focus before he'd even got the price sticker up in the window.

What's on the Xmas car list?

I have determined that I will keep this car for at least twelve months, and my next car will be the Kia Stinger GT-S when it's at £20K or less.

We already have a number of 50p bets riding on it in the office. I lose my money if I've got rid of the Focus before TT next year (last week of May and first week of June).

I am confident and feel good about this car, it may just be the perfect blend of practical daily usability and sporty credentials that I've always yearned for.

TBH I was slightly upset at how folks were clamouring to take the bet, claiming it was 'the easiest 50p I've ever made'.

I'LL SHOW THEM.