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20-02-2019, 08:23 PM | #1 |
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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MoT - Schoolboy Error
Took the good lady's bike for it's first MoT today. Parked up and Tester comes out to greet and says 'Failed.' Doh - I forgot to remove the 'pretty plate' and put the expected one on! I'm doubly Pd-Orf as on my own MoT reminders, I staple a 'must-do' list to it as a brain jerk. If a duff plate is categorised as a Serious Defect, God knows what some death traps must be existing out there?
One to chalk up as a senior moment
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20-02-2019, 10:20 PM | #2 |
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At least he told you before doing the test and taking the money for it.
But agreed, putting things in perspective a non conforming plate should really be an just advisory in my opinion.
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20-02-2019, 11:02 PM | #3 |
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or a nick for perverting the course of justice (anpr fail)
retest should be free anyway... |
20-02-2019, 11:15 PM | #4 | |
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Just to tempt fate- I've never had a problem with my 'letter box' plate in all the years I've owned my bike- it even used to pass MoT's back when there was no check for them. I thought the retest was only free if the bike stayed on the premises to have the work done else it is half fee?
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21-02-2019, 08:36 AM | #5 |
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I’ve always got free retests, I think it’s down to the shop.
ANPR is not just about size (they can read what brand of cigs you smoke from orbit these days), spacing & font too. Apparently artificial inteligence can understand W4 NKA but has a problem with W4 NKA or W4NKA probably the result of a poor budgetry decision at the Ministry of Truth. |
21-02-2019, 10:06 AM | #6 |
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The MOT test station I use will give a free retest as long as I don't take it away for too long, I mean over a week or so.
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21-02-2019, 11:05 AM | #7 |
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