Looks like one of our traders does not take care of our cars when test driving!
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There's a reason why the manual specifically says don't do that, there's a reason why activating the handbrake opens the diff.
I'd recommend you look them up as a courtesy to your customers. Just because you don't see an immediate consequence or catastrophic failure, doesn't mean what you're doing is fine. It's really not.
I'm not here to teach.
There's a reason why the manual specifically says don't do that, there's a reason why activating the handbrake opens the diff.
I'd recommend you look them up as a courtesy to your customers. Just because you don't see an immediate consequence or catastrophic failure, doesn't mean what you're doing is fine. It's really not.
There's a reason why the manual specifically says don't do that, there's a reason why activating the handbrake opens the diff.
I'd recommend you look them up as a courtesy to your customers. Just because you don't see an immediate consequence or catastrophic failure, doesn't mean what you're doing is fine. It's really not.
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I'm not here to teach.
There's a reason why the manual specifically says don't do that, there's a reason why activating the handbrake opens the diff.
I'd recommend you look them up as a courtesy to your customers. Just because you don't see an immediate consequence or catastrophic failure, doesn't mean what you're doing is fine. It's really not.
There's a reason why the manual specifically says don't do that, there's a reason why activating the handbrake opens the diff.
I'd recommend you look them up as a courtesy to your customers. Just because you don't see an immediate consequence or catastrophic failure, doesn't mean what you're doing is fine. It's really not.
You're putting words in my mouth, and I bet you have previous for this. Nowhere have I said what I do with my car or anyone else's. I don't run an MOT station. My point is that it really doesn't matter that much as you will not break an Impreza gearbox just by putting it on a brake tester. The tester is more likely to break the car when on some stupid road test. Of course the manual says "Don't do that" as they are going to assume you're going to be extreme about it and they don't want to get sued.
Would a roller brake testing machine not put strain on the gearbox/diff though, if just a little ?.
From personal experience, the two different garages I use to test my impreza won't run it on a roller brake tester.
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Whys this even a talking point??! If you dont mention it they would probably road test the brakes anyway.. They take your reg to get the details if they can't spot the obvious awd impreza in front of them.. Only car ive had to specifically say dont roller it is my old 205 with a plated diff
I think the reaction is more to do with the after service or complete lack of it which justifies the saga, not to mention the pure arrogance in thinking you are bigger and better than your paying customers...fundamentals in running a business are don't take the **** out of your punters.....unless you work in a dialysis ward that is!!! 
You're putting words in my mouth, and I bet you have previous for this. Nowhere have I said what I do with my car or anyone else's. I don't run an MOT station. My point is that it really doesn't matter that much as you will not break an Impreza gearbox just by putting it on a brake tester. The tester is more likely to break the car when on some stupid road test. Of course the manual says "Don't do that" as they are going to assume you're going to be extreme about it and they don't want to get sued.
I'm sure your Mum laughs at that little story! We have to remember that cars are actually only bits of machinery glued together and any failure is possible at any time, and it's the owners who go around busting cars by and large. I don't know many people who would bother to take their car to a garage to have it checked out every time they hit a pothole. In certain parts of the country you'd be doing nothing else. Devon has some areas that are just as bad as they are in Northern parts and I only recall having one car in that had actually broken something and that was an old Honda with rusty coilovers. He drove it in dragging his subframe on the floor!
I hope you make your customers sign a disclaimer when they ask you to drive their cars through potholes
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mine was in for mot on Monday, advisory on number plates, mot tester was telling me he got pulled when road testing a car he had failed on number plates but had to test the brakes. "I was doing a brake test on the road because it was a 4x4, and you can't brake test them on a rolling road" were his words in the conversation.
I'm pretty sure I omitted that information when I told her what had happened to the car, although it was over twenty years ago. Yes indeed cars are machinery that can go wrong at any time (hopefully all mine are bolted together, not glued!) but treating other peoples property in the way we have all seen on the video is not acceptable. What I did to my mums car happened as a consequence of my actions, not because a car can fail at any time. I am only glad the fault occurred immediately after, and not when someone else was driving it. I've hit potholes, my wife has hit potholes, and they do damage. One car I have had for four years, I am approaching the twentieth tyre that has been put on the car. Of those, two were instant blowouts, and two were a bulge and split in the tyre wall caused by hitting potholes hidden by puddles. The subaru has suffered a cracked alloy, to be replaced by a brand new alloy, and then four buckled alloys, all caused by the same thing.
I hope you make your customers sign a disclaimer when they ask you to drive their cars through potholes
I'm pretty sure I omitted that information when I told her what had happened to the car, although it was over twenty years ago. Yes indeed cars are machinery that can go wrong at any time (hopefully all mine are bolted together, not glued!) but treating other peoples property in the way we have all seen on the video is not acceptable. What I did to my mums car happened as a consequence of my actions, not because a car can fail at any time. I am only glad the fault occurred immediately after, and not when someone else was driving it. I've hit potholes, my wife has hit potholes, and they do damage. One car I have had for four years, I am approaching the twentieth tyre that has been put on the car. Of those, two were instant blowouts, and two were a bulge and split in the tyre wall caused by hitting potholes hidden by puddles. The subaru has suffered a cracked alloy, to be replaced by a brand new alloy, and then four buckled alloys, all caused by the same thing.
I hope you make your customers sign a disclaimer when they ask you to drive their cars through potholes
20 tyres? flippin' eck. I have never burst a tyre despite 47 years of driving and twenty years of various motor sport. Where do you live? The Giant's Causeway?
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No more than driving it about on ice/mud/gravel/tarmac or all four, no. Of course they won't, they'd be letting out a little bit of wee with all these serial litigants about. The whole MOT test is a farce anyway.
No but it bloody feels like it some times. Most of the roads going into my village are not much better than farm tracks. You get accustomed to knowing where the potholes are but when new ones appear masked by puddles your fvcked. On one of the blowouts, I stopped, obviously, and the next car down the road clouted it too. A fair few of the tyres are down to worn suspension bushes (heavy volvo that is notorious for wearing through bushes like they are tyres) and at least a couple are from screws, nails, debris in the road. Will be going poly bush next time, might save a bit in tyre wear!
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No but it bloody feels like it some times. Most of the roads going into my village are not much better than farm tracks. You get accustomed to knowing where the potholes are but when new ones appear masked by puddles your fvcked. On one of the blowouts, I stopped, obviously, and the next car down the road clouted it too. A fair few of the tyres are down to worn suspension bushes (heavy volvo that is notorious for wearing through bushes like they are tyres) and at least a couple are from screws, nails, debris in the road. Will be going poly bush next time, might save a bit in tyre wear!
i might be right i might be wrong but with headphones on i took that video to be , the customer is a **** if we break his car hard fvcking luck kev may or may not pay for it, but it will need fixing either way, but as a added bonus it might make kev fix the potholes, most company bosses these days are as tight as a ducks chuff trying to cut corners every way poss, so they can line their own pockets, if its true it worked to a point cos he said he had staff out filling in the holes, pot holes are not created by moles and do no appear overnight the size of them holes they have been there ages
i might be right i might be wrong but with headphones on i took that video to be , the customer is a **** if we break his car hard fvcking luck kev may or may not pay for it, but it will need fixing either way, but as a added bonus it might make kev fix the potholes, most company bosses these days are as tight as a ducks chuff trying to cut corners every way poss, so they can line their own pockets, if its true it worked to a point cos he said he had staff out filling in the holes, pot holes are not created by moles and do no appear overnight the size of them holes they have been there ages
Right, I've just fitted my new dash cam and it's one of the smallest ones available on the market. You would have to be practically blind not to see it! I can not honestly see how it's physically possible for 2 people, the driver and a passenger not to see a dash cam! It beggars beliefs! Surely one of them must have at least clocked it but thought nothing of it? The 2 in the car must be seriously stupid, but I guess that shows based on their driving and comments made.....
Right, I've just fitted my new dash cam and it's one of the smallest ones available on the market. You would have to be practically blind not to see it! I can not honestly see how it's physically possible for 2 people, the driver and a passenger not to see a dash cam! It beggars beliefs! Surely one of them must have at least clocked it but thought nothing of it? The 2 in the car must be seriously stupid, but I guess that shows based on their driving and comments made.....
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1080P-2-7-...MAAOSwJkJWi2rM
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A118-Steal...sAAOSwKtlWk6im
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Btw, I bought the A118-C, you'd still have to be blind not to notice it.
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I'm looking forward to finding a camera in a customers car when I do my usual 50 mile running in trip on a new engine. They'll have to sit and watch while I adhere to the speed limit, avoid any kind of incident, and listen to current affairs on Radio Four. Borring.. The only highlight will be me ranting at that bloody John Humphries when he goes off on one.
Or maybe I'll moon at it? what do you think?
Or maybe I'll moon at it? what do you think?
I'm looking forward to finding a camera in a customers car when I do my usual 50 mile running in trip on a new engine. They'll have to sit and watch while I adhere to the speed limit, avoid any kind of incident, and listen to current affairs on Radio Four. Borring.. The only highlight will be me ranting at that bloody John Humphries when he goes off on one.
Or maybe I'll moon at it? what do you think?
Or maybe I'll moon at it? what do you think?
for anyone interested in a nosey through Scooby Clinic: just go into google maps and street view or better google earth, will let you walk through the whole lot.
Obviously a major player with so many scoobys around and the amount of work going on.
the view is from May 2011, drive appears in much better shape and drying up in the spring weather
Trev
Obviously a major player with so many scoobys around and the amount of work going on.
the view is from May 2011, drive appears in much better shape and drying up in the spring weather
Trev
Last edited by trevsjwood; Jan 20, 2016 at 07:36 PM. Reason: added info
Ben has recently posted again on MLR, this is what he has said;
"Apparently I intentionally hid the camera out of site, let's bust this one too.
Below is a picture of the actual dashcam that caught the footage. It's a Transcend DashPro 200 and it costs £80 off eBay.
It was mounted on the suction arm to the left of the rear view mirror ( as it doesn't fit behind ) and is plugged into the 12v socket.
It bleeps once when ignition is turned on and twice when turned off. It also has a constant flashing red light on the rear of the unit whilst recording and the rear screen shows the recording angle for three minutes after turning on."
Simply impossible not to spot his dash cam. Idiot driver and passenger.
"Apparently I intentionally hid the camera out of site, let's bust this one too.
Below is a picture of the actual dashcam that caught the footage. It's a Transcend DashPro 200 and it costs £80 off eBay.
It was mounted on the suction arm to the left of the rear view mirror ( as it doesn't fit behind ) and is plugged into the 12v socket.
It bleeps once when ignition is turned on and twice when turned off. It also has a constant flashing red light on the rear of the unit whilst recording and the rear screen shows the recording angle for three minutes after turning on."
Simply impossible not to spot his dash cam. Idiot driver and passenger.
