Ossian

:nono: technically the pipes are individual and so should be listed individually, its for the benefit of the vehicle presenter so that they know exactly which pipes to replace,also a tester can only issue a reason for rejection when he is sure that the defect meets with the failure criteria, if unsure he should advise on the defect and leave it up to the customer. If a tester cant see something he cant just decide to fail the car just because the pipe might be corroded. the 80% of the pipes you are on about can be seen (just) but unless your tombs from the X files there aint anyway you can properly asses them and by that i meen using the correct corrosion assesment tool and not a two foot long chisel. What i was originally getting at is all to often a tester on seeing one or two pipes corroded will state that all the pipes are corroded because it is easier to do so than list those that really need replacing. On the other hand my car failed last year on two rear brake pipes, as I stated i decided to do them all, I quickly found out that most of the pipes were total knackered one of the just broke away when I went to remove it. these pipes were corroded in places that was impossible to see, Id advise anyone who hasnt changed the brake pipes on their UK Z to do it, probably the imports as well if they have been over here a few years, fast cars and no brakes dont mix

fook sake you've not had much luck with that car. sorry to hear you need so much doing for the mot, but I theres a couple of things the mot station havent done properly, ie may have failed the car incorrectly. sills corroded at the body mounts ????? aint no body mounts on a Z chassis,to fail the corrosion has to be within 30cm of a specified component on the Z that means brakes, steering, suspension or seat belt mounting fook all to do with body mounts. all brake pipes corroded, he's just being lazy and didnt want to list them individually as he's supposed to, hard to believe all the pipes are fooked and he probably couldnt see half them anyway. have a look at the sill and brake pipes, if the corrosion on the sill is outwith 30cm of any of the above components and any of the underside brake pipes look ok ( surface corrosion is considered ok, remember he said all pipes so every single one has got to be corroded to excess) then get straight back to the garage tell him you aint happy and ask for a VT 17 appeals form to send to VOSA he has got to give you one. If you need to go down the road of an appeal it will cost the price of a test but if you get some of the more costly items knocked of the fail it may be worth it. ps. couple of my brake pipes were picked up at last years test, because of the work involved to do them I did the lot 2 days of pure fun!!!! good luck things must start getting better soon

same here, nearly a foot of snow and its still chucking it down. Z stays tucked up in the garage today methinks. I'll go out and play in the pug instead

missed it last year, be there this year 1, Chunk 2, Craig David 3, Chris 4, Legrath 5, Miss_Z 6.Viniboy 7. Paul C 8. cybernet 9. TonyC 10. Southwestmech 11. Scrawni 12. Jason Farrow 69. ChrisC 14. Autobeast 15. Clarkey 16. BlackMagic 17. ZX MAD 18. Kirbz 19. Paul.Donovan73@ + Mrs Paul.Donovan73@ 20. Speedemon + Mrs Speedemon. 21.smithy +Mrs + Junior 22 daves_new_ZX 23. ZX-TT +1 24. Steve-300ZX 25. JonLowndes101 (I'm refereeing for fair pool strikes!) 26. Ossian

arousing stuff,,, think i'll pop through to the bedroom an start mulching the wifes clematis with ma tongue

welll i am on the beer and see ive proved my point never heard of it before :tongue:

:bow: but got to give you the honour . I thought I knew it all but tonight was the first time I heard I heard of fletching. and you can fookin keep it :hurl: :hurl:

bored with porn!!! never, that reminds me I need a bigger H/D

obviously a hardened porn hunter

hehe melching !!! was worth a try but the words mulching so your still in the sh*t.

:hurl: a straw ffs

:) :) :) came across it :shock: or cum across it??

Ohhh yehhh that does it for me, I wanna be a goth (or is that get into that goth) !!!!!!! is there an age limit ???? :)

still half sleeping methinks ;)

Sorry to hear of the bump Alan, I just went through all that crap as well, a woman rammed into the drivers side took out the door and the front wing I was sure they were gonna write it off. the woman accepted the blame her insurers contacted me and told me that they would send an assesor but even if it wasnt deemed repairable I would still get to keep the car PLUS they would give me full market value cha ching :) :) :) Assesor came out and said the cars worth saving :mad: :mad:, so instead of me getting to repair it plus have extra for some bling it went into a vauxhall dealer for repairs using brand new parts and shoddy workmanship :( :( Ahh well cant win them all. hope you get yours fixed out ok

black Z, Cow wynd Falkirk, Saturday 28 about 14:00

thank fook i arranged for tomorrow off :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :hyper:

thanks guys, went for a spin in the Z to celibrated :D (first time out for a month), had to wait till the afternoon cause the missus arranged a party last night and i had a few :duffer: just back in and am on my first :duffer: of the night, mmmm think i'll have another couple then head for an Indian.

just spent an hour on that site :D :D some crap but a lot of funnies too, this one appealed to me. http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/commercials/Happy_Doughboy/ dont fancy eating anything made from that dough though

WTF!!!! and he's even got air intakes on the tail gate....... mabey a couple of jet engines hiding in there.

it's a fair old treck for me :( . but i'll try and make it,just have to start saving for the fuel for the 3ml journey up to the wheel :p. probably even pass the house on the way down to the bowtrees............please, please, please make it a wee tad further for next meet at least far enough for the engine to heat up a bit

I looked into this a little as well, the thing that put me off was the time involved and trying to find a plot, I was considering the kit option and some of the kit manufacturers have good web sites on the subject. http://www.scotframe.co.uk/ Just run a search on google etc

Yep what a bunch of sad gits on the forum at that time, then again i was banned from firing up the pc and told to stay downstairs at the party :D :D :bow: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Blackmagic love the winnie the poo avatar, appealed to my sense of humour. Happy new year to you all :hyper: :hyper:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: class clip alan, :( :( cant see craigs

Got to agree that was rubbish, but had a look at the site and theres some funny stuff..... especially liked the naughty kangaroo in the vids section