The new, new, new MOT certificate

Had Elly's bike tested today and succeeded in obtaining one of the
very latest printed-out VT20 pass certificates. They look, feel and
generally are /awful/ compared to the rather nicely traditional
previous iteration. No pressed-in stamp, no watermarking, no
photocopy-proof banknote-type fine, munticoloured lines or nuffink.

Society takes another step backwards, I reckon - but of course it is
computer-generated (well, the printing is) and will therefore be on
record with VOSA (Vehicle and Operator Services Agency) by now. This
means that Plod can check instantly of course, so no need for HORT1
producers any more, eh?

I also tripped over a site the other day that yer ornery punter can
check MOT status for specific vehicles, so it may even become a useful
tool, I suppose.
www.motinfo.gov.uk if you're interested.


What strikes me as less than useful is the equally computer-generated
VT32 Advisory Note sheet. Just one entry:

" offside front lower Brake Component worn but not seriously reduced
in strength [3.2.A1] "

The tester had left the building by the time we collected the bike,
and nobody had any idea what this actually meant. The computer gives
a limited number of options apparently, and the closest one should be
selected.

It turned out to mean that the brake pads will need changing sometime
before the next test. I knew that. Bah.

 

<sigh> no they won't.


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Dnc
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B1200 - Back ~|~ VS800 - borked
TS150 - squatting ~|~ V2300 - flat cap and rug

MIB#26 two#54(soiled) UKRMMA#26 BOTAFOT#153 X-FOT#003

 

Good. I do try to be helpful, you know.

 

I thought they could - already, as the inscos databases are online and
available to Plod.

 

Pip wrote:

So when I TWOC Loz's gixxer next friday afternoon, how is plod going to
know whether I'm insured or not until they give me a producer?

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Dnc
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B1200 - Back ~|~ VS800 - borked
TS150 - squatting ~|~ V2300 - flat cap and rug

MIB#26 two#54(soiled) UKRMMA#26 BOTAFOT#153 X-FOT#003

 

PNC ... interrogate ... ask you "the question" ... handcuffs ...
station steps ... 12" strapons without lube - that sort of thing.

 

Pip says...

You forgot the battering with the old RD400 fork tube that I'll give
him when he's bailed.

 

They'll just RFID his implanted chip. Then, if they decide he's done
something naughty, they send a "void from every orifice" signal to his chip.
Stop him in his tracks, that will.

 

*Ding*, all they could tell from a PNC is whether there is an insurance
policy dedicated to that vehicle - not whether it's correctly covered at
the time of use.

Although you missed my deliberate mistake. If I TWOC the gixxer, I'm not
covered on my CIHAGM section of insurance. Only with permission.

From the owner natch.


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Dnc
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B1200 - Back ~|~ VS800 - borked
TS150 - squatting ~|~ V2300 - flat cap and rug

MIB#26 two#54(soiled) UKRMMA#26 BOTAFOT#153 X-FOT#003

 

They're not reliable enough. There's so much insurance business done
each day and then you have the problem of sheer incompetence, laziness
and system buggeration that plod know the database isn't very good
through their own experience of it.

 

Lozzo wrote:

Thanks mate.



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Dnc
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TS150 - squatting ~|~ V2300 - flat cap and rug

MIB#26 two#54(soiled) UKRMMA#26 BOTAFOT#153 X-FOT#003

 

Doesnotcompute scribbled on the back of a napkin:

Hmm. This may actually lead to policies that cover the vehicle instead
of all this cover the driver/rider bollicks that we've got now...

I can already see the insewerance cos complaining about it and using it
as another excuse to hike the premiums.

 

What Dnc means, is that they'll be able to tell if the car / bike has a
policy on it, not if you're the policy holder.

 

That'll be good thing to do over here.

 

ISTR (from years back) that in Switzerland you could have 2 vehicles but 1
interchangeable plate.

Is that right, or a figment of my wine ridden brain this morning?

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Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R (Going)
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament)
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

Dan L scribbled on the back of a napkin:

Nope, that's still the case.

 

How does that work then? (briefly), especially if you are married, have 2
cars and wifey also drives one, surely both cars can't be out at the same
time with identical plates on.

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Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R (Going)
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament)
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

Dan L scribbled on the back of a napkin:

You're only allowed to drive one of them at any given them, thus you
only get one set of plates and have to swap them over.

A lot of people I know in Switzerland use it either to get the car and
a campervan on the same inswearance policy, or run a couple of bikes...

 

Ahh, similar sort of idea to the old NU Rider policy.

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Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R (Going)
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament)
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

That's too sensible a thing to be adopted anywhere else. Speaking as an
owner of several motorised things and the only driver of them, it irks
me to have to shell out money to keep them all on the road when only one
can be used at any one time.