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AdrianC

dggar wrote: »

and you must have a valid Department for Transport Test Certificate (MOT) if one is needed by law.

Really?

Well spotted. You are right.

However, the lack of invalidation still stands.

Savvy_Sue

bigadaj wrote: »

It's a male evolutionary adaptation, when the female is communicating then appear to take notice or it will lead to conflict, though information imparted is often not recorded.

Do not get me started on what he fails to hear! Some of it trivial ("when you go to buy bread, please buy chicken, they had thighs on offer but none on display." Comes back with breasts because that's what I told him to buy ... Some of it more important, like sending his CV off, but we'll leave it there.

bigadaj wrote: »

To be fair to him then only a limited amount of the communication is often of use, rather than updates on to soaps, what the neighbours cats been up to etc etc.

Oi! If he asks, I'll tell him what he missed in the Archers, and I may get him to watch five minutes of Bake Off (because you have NEVER seen anything so ridiculous as spinning sugar!) but on the whole I respect that his mind is on allegedly higher things.

bigadaj wrote: »

No excuse for a bloke forgetting an mot though, just mention it to his male friends next time you see them, large amounts of hilarity at his expense.

He's suffered enough by not being able to do a few things because it was Just Too Complicated to sort it out by public transport, plus he's the one who's going to get the car to the garage at silly o'clock on Tuesday.

decbel

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Well, that's a tricky one, isn't it? Because since you're only supposed to drive the car to an MOT appointment, how are you supposed to move it onto your drive?

You have a quick scan down the street and move it.

decbel

wgl2014 wrote: »

Defence against what exactly?

I think the previous post refers to the fact that an MOT shows the vehicle was upto standard when the test was done, you could drive off and if something were to break almost immediately you could be stopped and fined (bulb blown etc)

Another thing is the tester might have missed something and subjectivity comes into the MOT.
One tester might pass something another might fail it.