snapper
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| posted on 18/7/08 at 06:14 PM |
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Passed Norwich
PASSED PASSED PASSED
FIRST TIME FIRST TIME FIRST TIME
The test went well but i felt like i was on trial, broke the ice early with dennis and from then on it was a pleasent few hours with jokes, laughter
and genuine interest in cars, the brake test was horrible with loads of numbers, some flashing red and what i thought was terminal imbalance.
sound test was easy and registered at 92db, must have some sort of perforated tube restriction in it, i must have a look and unblock it this
weekend.
Speedo test was the last bit and all was going realy well untill at 63 mph the sppedo died. "Oh" says Dennis " thats a shame up till
then you had passed the lot"
"We book these tests till 12 so if you can fix it by then i can pass you" No presure then.
Knock off two magnets re try
Failed at 33 mph.
recalibrate
Failed at 63 again.
PANIC
Tester lets us use the lift with his supervision
Earth sender
Rip our under dash protection and start to hard wire the power and earths
Phone Caerbont who said "try other sensor feed wire, thats all he could suggest.
Failed
Isolate guage from all other wiring and unplug a few things to stop any interferance.
Speedo works to about 83mph then jips out, tester says "i only test to 70"
Re Test
Failed on speed
recalibrate
failed
in a panic just add 300 to the calibration as by this time even with a calculator the maths is not working, diff time rolling radius times magnets.
This was getting like countdown, 30 seconds to get a number.
Finally i got close enough to the bottom acceptable limits, i wont drive it on the road like this but it got me a final pass.
[Edited on 18/7/08 by snapper]
I eat to survive
I drink to forget
I breath to pi55 my ex wife off (and now my ex partner)
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 18/7/08 at 06:38 PM |
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Well done, that man!
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worX
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| posted on 18/7/08 at 06:51 PM |
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da dun, da dun, da da da dun... daaa
Well done!!!
Steve
[Edited on 18/7/08 by worX]
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 18/7/08 at 06:51 PM |
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eccsmk
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| posted on 18/7/08 at 06:54 PM |
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well done
sounds like you had fun and most of all didnt panic
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Valtra
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| posted on 18/7/08 at 06:58 PM |
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nice one
any blood? my dad shed quite a bit when the spring pan spanner slipped trying to get the indicators up an inch .
congratulations now get down the DVLA sharpish
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snapper
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| posted on 18/7/08 at 07:01 PM |
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quote:
sounds like you had fun and most of all didnt panic
I was truly swan like, calm and serene on the surface but paddling like FCUK underneath
I eat to survive
I drink to forget
I breath to pi55 my ex wife off (and now my ex partner)
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DRC INDY 7
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| posted on 18/7/08 at 07:40 PM |
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well done that man seems you had a similar prob to me but a lot worse by the sounds of it but its a great feeling when at the end of the day you have
PASSED 1st TIME welcome to the club
ps no offence intended to the peeps that do not pass 1st time a lot of it is luck when you are not certain if the speedo will work
[Edited on 7/18/2008 by DRC INDY 7]
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Puddle Dodgers Club
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chris_smith
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| posted on 18/7/08 at 07:42 PM |
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well done mate erm i dont seem to see the obligatry post sva pics?
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piddy
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| posted on 18/7/08 at 08:07 PM |
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Well done that man.
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matt.c
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| posted on 18/7/08 at 09:18 PM |
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You were lucky they let you adjust some of the things at the sva. We went ie myself and steven(snap-off) to get his indy sva'ed and they didnt
give us a change to do any ajustment, even when we had nearlly an hour left for the testing time. 
Oh and congrats
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Snap-off
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| posted on 18/7/08 at 09:32 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by matt.c
You were lucky they let you adjust some of the things at the sva. We went ie myself and steven(snap-off) to get his indy sva'ed and they didnt
give us a change to do any ajustment, even when we had nearlly an hour left for the testing time.
Oh and congrats
Well done on the pass!!!
We didn't have Dennis. I think our guy took the hump after I asked him to check the regs on suggesting that my clocks and start button would
fail on being out of the 110mm steering radius. I was sure it was more than 110mm, he came back red faced, it was 127mm!
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adithorp
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| posted on 18/7/08 at 09:37 PM |
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Nice one! It's looking like a bumper mounth for SVA passes.
adrian
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matt.c
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| posted on 18/7/08 at 09:46 PM |
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LOL at least you had a better ending to your sva day than we had!!
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stuart_g
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| posted on 18/7/08 at 10:37 PM |
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Well done
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martin1973
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| posted on 19/7/08 at 05:56 AM |
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well done, dennis is a top bloke fair and helpful.
i drove mine so i could check my speedo against my gps on the way.
martin
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Steve Lovelock
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| posted on 19/7/08 at 06:17 AM |
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Well done
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jollygreengiant
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| posted on 19/7/08 at 07:32 AM |
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Well done young man.
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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coozer
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| posted on 19/7/08 at 09:32 AM |
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 Well done fella, we are doing quite well this week with all the good news, hope it
continues!
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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