New test item for MOT- Towbars

From Wikipedia:

"When the last Capri was made on 19 December 1986..."

Chris

asahartz gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Every trailer built in about the last 20yrs, IIRC, has to have a manufacturer plate with VIN, weights etc.

I don't think there has been any ban on home-made trailer in that time, has there?

Ian

"shazzbat"

Most dinghies are towed around with a lighting board on the transom of the boat. The trailers have no lights.

There are also, as I recall, exceptions when the car's lights/ numberplates are clearly visible over the trailer.

Ian

There would be nothing to pay them to do. It would be entirely a business decision, vosa would not get involved. In the course of a few years there have been several customers that I have told to f*ck off, including for MoTs (when I used to do them about 20 years ago) Some customers are just not worth the effort.

Mrcheerful

ISTR that was from 1998?

Chris

Gorrit. Only applies to brake and indicator lights, only to older trailers

"No trailer manufactured before 1st October 1990 is required by regulation 18 to be fitted with any stop lamp or direction indicator whilst being drawn by a motor vehicle fitted with one or two stop lamps and two or more direction indicators if the dimensions of the trailer are such that when the longitudinal axes of the drawing vehicle and the trailer lie in the same vertical plane such stop lamps and at last one direction indicator on each side of the vehicle are visible to an observer in that vertical plane from a point 6 m behind the rear of the trailer whether it is loaded or not."

The Road Vehicle Lighting Regulations 1989

Ian

And the last Brookies are on E plates making them at least 1987.

As mine is a D plate, it should but according to reg, I merely have to cover all my lights and it'll pass.

Contest an MOT decision. Requires you to pay for a test at VOSA.

Oh dear. I guess you don't know the procedure for complaining if you believe your MOT test was unfair.

When made and when registered are two very different things.

Cover in a not easily removed fashion. & inform your insurers you've modified it, so it would seem pretty daft on a Capri.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember The Real Doctor saying something like:

There's at least one modern 4x4 with an additional set of sidelights and indicators high up on the rear - sufficiently high to be seen by traffic following if the 4x4 is pulling a typical small trailer. Probably for just that reason.

Used to see plenty, but haven't for a good few years. Same with boat trailers, which were commonly with one wheel missing by the side of the road. These are pretty much unknown now following a spate of thefts. Thieves had cottoned on to the fact that holiday makers often filled their boats with goodies while travelling home, then left them unattended when the salt laden bearings seized up.

Of course no MOT is going to prevent bearings seizing after being reversed into the sea...

Aye, was following one yesterday. Fuckwitted farmer had piled a load of silage bale wrappers onto a trailer, weighed a few down with an old railway sleeper, then headed out onto the road in very windy weather. Result - black plastic blowing everywhere; farmer not giving a toss.

if no test is carried out then vosa would have no interest.