Dead out there - what's the story?

[Panel]

I’d fukin love to be a Nct tester, I’m one of the oddballs of life who actually enjoys bringing a heep to get tested.

I genuinely love inspecting a car before the Nct to see what it might fail on and being pleasantly surprised on it passing.

Oh I’d be a terrible tester though, all the 20+ year old shitboxes would get a automatic pass while the heeps still on pcp finance would get failed.

[Octavia1]

I’d fukin love to be a Nct tester, I’m one of the oddballs of life who actually enjoys bringing a heep to get tested.

I genuinely love inspecting a car before the Nct to see what it might fail on and being pleasantly surprised on it passing.

Oh I’d be a terrible tester though, all the 20+ year old shitboxes would get a automatic pass while the heeps still on pcp finance would get failed.

Ide fail all the range rovers   ... I hate them cnuts

[Cool Boola]

 

[Rat Catcher]

I quite like the NCT also. I don't do any preparation or preliminary work for it though, just let the inspectors do their job. In fact, 55 notes is pretty good value for an annual inspection utilising all the tools and gadgets at NCTSs disposal.

However, it can be frustrating when there's a fault they don't find. My current yoke has a wet weather squeak which I think is coming from the rear passenger side suspension which has gone through the National car test undianosed twiice to date. I'm guessing it's rubber... ifn it was the front I'd be 86.87% certain it'd be the anti roll bar bushes but I don't know if there's an anti roll bar on the back. I'll have to sick me noggin under next time I'm changing the rerar brake pads, I guess.

[Rat Catcher]

Oh... another complaint I have with the NCT is it's effectiveness as far as taxis/hackneys are concerned. It seems completely crazy that a car can fail a roadworthiness test and continue to carry passengers for reward. Logically all relevant licences should be revoked and all relevant signage removed until the car is roadworthy. Believe it or not, I was in a taxi as a passenger last month up above in Dublin only to be told by the driver that the car had failed the National car test and he had to change some bit or other before rebooking. If it wasn't so difficult to hire a taxi up above in Dublin I would have ended the journey there and then. I think I just quipped that I can't play the piano very well instead.

[Octavia1]

Used to have bit of a knockin wen it was sign for the bushes to go but I never had "the squeek" but apperently its a common problem wit the octavia alledgidy  unfortunatelly readin the goggle

[Octavia1]

https://vroomo.co.uk/skoda-octavia-rear-suspension-issues/

[Rat Catcher]

Thanks Octy, I'll have a read of that when I have the time/inclination. It can't be anything catastrophic or the NCT folk would have found it, I guess.

[Octavia1]

Thanks Octy, I'll have a read of that when I have the time/inclination. It can't be anything catastrophic or the NCT folk would have found it, I guess.

Yea but a nuicense alrite ....I was in prius one nite an the nice coloured gentleman's bushes wer rattling like a drunken steel band orchestra gettin fuked off a cliff ....plus he had a tool box in the boot ...the noise was horrific...luckily I was only goin up the road ....but he didny giv a bollix ...probly a rental heap of shite but I was completely nausea an sick  wen I got out

[silverbullet]

Do you find that when you are not busy…someone else is….Wonder why?

Nail and head.

[Shallow Hal]

Hal be a candidate aswell ...

Ah...I have a lot of paint that needs watching till dry!!

[Octavia1]

https://priuschat.com/threads/tsb-coolant-leakage-at-front-exhaust-pipe-prius-prius-prime.211059/

Taut them prius was a great yoke ...noticed steam comin out me exhaust ( unusual ammount)...an  checked me coolant .....an was  low ...topped it up an down its goin slowly ...apparently a common fault  barrin a head gasket which is highly unlikely...
Next yoke be electric one way or another ide imagine 

[Octavia1]

Nuother ting that dumbfounded me ...thers no low coolant  float ting  in the ting bottle ting as far as I can see   .......

[Octavia1]

Disappointed 

[Rat Catcher]

Isn't there two seperate coolant systems in the Prius, one for the batteries and one for the engine? I know that's the case with the hybrid Starlet or whatever it's called these days.