Was a lot better than i anticipated.

Failed on emissions, mirrors and noise was 103!

Was worried about self centering but this was bang on on the test also was worried about the brakes since i was using Willwoods on the back, managed to scrape through the handbrake efficiency with 17.996% needs to be 18% for SVA and only 15% for MOT so he said he was happy to round it up!

Got a few minor trimming jobs to do and provide a evidence my fuel hose is for fuel.
need to get a clear sticker for the Digi dash so that the brake oil warning light illuminates the sticker rather than just having the icon on the side.
need to setup the digi dash so that it displays MPH at all times, mine kept saying OIL even though i had turned off the oil alarms...??

All in all it was quite a good experience, the tester even commented how smooth it was to drive for a BEC...

So time to let all the cuts on my hands heal from last weeks effort(Massive thanks to MrGrumpy!!) then fix the rest


[Edited on 11/3/09 by Gav]

Thats not too bad a fail
Also you dont need to worry about IVA

sounds like reasonable fail if there is such a thing.

who did you have was it david? i spoke to him the other week pretty sound guy.

oh and now yours is out of the way you can come and help mme next week

my turn next friday

chris

[Edited on 11/3/09 by chris_smith]

It was Jeff, started off a bit miserable but by the end of the test we were having quite a good chat and he was very very helpful.

I know its no good to you but just relax and enjoy it, that said i didnt get much sleep last night

Even a SVA fail is not usually that bad an affair.
Mine Failed twice (Only brake ballance on the second time, and my fault!)

It seems that most members of this site have reasonable SVA fails.

My tester told me about self built locost, that had 4 A4 pages of fail items. The tester was on it all day when their time is about 4 hours for them.
He said it was everything you could think of that was wrong.

Which IMHO shows this site is doing its job, and helping members to build near perfect (SVA wise) cars.

More power to ALL the Locosbuilders on this site... Well Done to you all.

It just goes to show what helping each other can achieve

Finally when it goes to IVA, its still the same chaps testing, and i dont think its going to be any different, except for the list of testable items.

Belting pass mate. I did wonder about the fuel hose but it was marked. The handbrake I'm surprised on as it was rock solid but that said, mine can't be moved but still failed.
All in great job and 6 months to play with. You'll be grounded for most of that now

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Originally posted by Gav
It was Jeff, started off a bit miserable but by the end of the test we were having quite a good chat and he was very very helpful.

I know its no good to you but just relax and enjoy it, that said i didnt get much sleep last night

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well done Gav, done really well there,

look forward to seeing you out on the road soon then,

Mitch