Muppet in a Audi tt video.

[downfader]

Interestingly, since I posted the original video, his number plate has changed to the legal version. I wonder if someone shopped him in to the DVLA. I wasn't me!

More likely the '07 car now old enough to have an MoT and he had to change to get it through the test.

Sounds like Stuart could be right. I see lots of prat plates. I wonder if they switch them for the MOT and back again.

 

[davefb]

Sounds like Stuart could be right. I see lots of prat plates. I wonder if they switch them for the MOT and back again.

i believe so...

see also idiots who remove cats/silencers...


glad youtube didnt remove it, would have been pretty pathetic if they had...

 

[StuartG]

glad youtube didnt remove it, would have been pretty pathetic if they had...

Nope, good for business - Stick it on another (better) vid-sharing service with a 'banned by YouTube' moniker and trade on the Streisand Effect.

 

[Gmanjft96]

Odd first post - don't own a Audi do you Gmanjft96?

No a Nissan Micra, until i found out ice is slippery and a wooden telegraph pole is tougher than than a Micra.
stumbled upon this site while searching for some cycling info, been popping in daily to have a read, always find it interesting, educational and funny at times, never really felt the need to post, then someone tweeted this ( Driver that tried to remove vid due to privacy has failed. Respect this drivers privacy and don't retweet this video http://t.co/N86FQ3u ;-) couldn't see anything about here, so i thought duty bound to share.

 

[downfader]

No a Nissan Micra, until i found out ice is slippery and a wooden telegraph pole is tougher than than a Micra.
stumbled upon this site while searching for some cycling info, been popping in daily to have a read, always find it interesting, educational and funny at times, never really felt the need to post, then someone tweeted this ( Driver that tried to remove vid due to privacy has failed. Respect this drivers privacy and don't retweet this video http://t.co/N86FQ3u ;-) couldn't see anything about here, so i thought duty bound to share.

Welcome to the forums btw!

 

[Ellis456]

Wow, what an idiot, thick as two short planks!.

 

[XmisterIS]

see also idiots who remove cats/silencers...

Having tried the modified exhaust thing for ONE day on my motorbike, I wholeheartedly agree with you. I decided I wanted something a little more throaty - so I bought a slip-on and fitted it ... and by Christ it was horrendous! It was so loud that all I could hear on the bike was BRARARARARARARARARARA as I was going along (left my ears ringing) and pedestrians actually winced when I opened the throttle. It was embarrasing.

I took it off and retro-fitted the stock exhaust as soon as I got home. The chav two-hats who drive with those bin-sized exhausts must be deaf by now.

 

[downfader]

Having tried the modified exhaust thing for ONE day on my motorbike, I wholeheartedly agree with you. I decided I wanted something a little more throaty - so I bought a slip-on and fitted it ... and by Christ it was horrendous! It was so loud that all I could hear on the bike was BRARARARARARARARARARA as I was going along (left my ears ringing) and pedestrians actually winced when I opened the throttle. It was embarrasing.

I took it off and retro-fitted the stock exhaust as soon as I got home. The chav two-hats who drive with those bin-sized exhausts must be deaf by now.

Nah, the ICE did that for them in the first week. Now they're working on their genitalia.

 

[Chromatic]

Anyone else think Audis are the new BMWs?

Yes, for quite a while I've noticed Audi drivers seem to be much worse than BMW drivers, in fact I find most BMW drivers OK. VW drivers seem to be almost as bad too.

Anyway, in our house we reckon an Audi TT is a girls car, he was probably just trying to prove his macho credentials despite driving one.

 

[DrSquirrel]

Even Clarkson said that Audi's are the new BMW, and Mondeo man is now BMW man (but the latter trend is diminishing).

More likely the '07 car now old enough to have an MoT and he had to change to get it through the test.

That will be a first - MOT centres tend to let stuff like that fly through.

 

[HLaB]

That will be a first - MOT centres tend to let stuff like that fly through.

OT, I dropped of my car for a MOT a while back, coincidentally the driver's windscreen wiper was split (and it wasn't a small spit either (3/4 of it was hanging off). I told them that they'd need to replace it before the MOT. A few hours later I got the call the car had passed and it was ready for collection. Guess what, when I collected it the wiper was still burst. I lost all faith in the MOT process after that.

 

[Bicycle]

Sounds like Stuart could be right. I see lots of prat plates. I wonder if they switch them for the MOT and back again.

This is likely.

I run a 60s Italian car on which I use a mini white-on-black front plate (in the Italian style).

Many Italian cars of the era look wrong with full-size front plates.

In the boot I keep a full-size plate with holes the same distance apart.

The car wears it for about three hours a year; the same three hours every year.

It's not a vanity plate (personalised registration), it's just that cute Italian cars of the era must have small front plates. To equip themm otherwise would be a crime against all that is stylish.

Much more important to be stylish than legal.

 

[davefb]

OT, I dropped of my car for a MOT a while back, coincidentally the driver's windscreen wiper was split (and it wasn't a small spit either (3/4 of it was hanging off). I told them that they'd need to replace it before the MOT. A few hours later I got the call the car had passed and it was ready for collection. Guess what, when I collected it the wiper was still burst. I lost all faith in the MOT process after that.

blimey ,. thats sort of the opposite i've been getting recently... i tend to say 'fix these things first', but what happens is they fire the car into the MOT first ( due to them subcontracting certain work i think)... so you get a fail AND a fixed document....
just seems wierd..

had they charged for it being replaced

 

[XmisterIS]

blimey ,. thats sort of the opposite i've been getting recently... i tend to say 'fix these things first', but what happens is they fire the car into the MOT first ( due to them subcontracting certain work i think)... so you get a fail AND a fixed document....
just seems wierd..

had they charged for it being replaced

Perhaps it's just for them to make things quicker and easier - if they put it through MOT first, then they are left with one list of things to fix, which they can do all at once.

 

[Bicycle]

In the 80s I took a car in for an MOT, pulling badly to the left because a half-shaft seal had gone so gearbox oil was getting into a brake drum brake.

I was sitting in the car on the ramp (really) doing the brakes, lights, horn and indicators....

When I stomped the footbrake for the front-wheel brake test, the steering wheel spun violently and the meters showed hugely disparate readings.

I thought "Bollox, no MOT today", but the tester just told me to do it again and hold the wheel this time.

The meters showed very similar readings and it passed.

That was my first ever MOT. Since then I've found everyone to be appropriately strict and efficient.

Once or twice I've had advisory notes about wiper blades or similar, but since that bizarre day I've never had an unwarranted pass. Needless to say I had the offending seal replaced the next week... and immediately almost had a accident when I steered against the pull I was expecting on the brakes, but which had been cured. Ooops!