Vehicles not fit for the road

[Tje]

Last week I was driving behind someone. Nearly ran into the back of them as none of the rear light clusters were working. And only a single LED on the middle brake light.

Followed them a shirt while and they parked up. Wound the window down to inform them to be told “oh don’t worry I know”

Who willingly drives with 0 rear lights

[Saudade]

Jordie Barretts sock said:

OP, why don't you spend more time minding your own business instead of everyone else's?

Nobody has put you, or your wife, in charge of road policing.

Perhaps spend less time being a SJW and get a hobby?

I vote to put him and his wife in charge.

[andybracing]

cce427 said:

I see this was discussed here some time ago but even more common today. As a retired mechanic I see so many vehicles EVERY DAY that are not fit for the road due to under inflated tyres, no brake lights, missing rear wiper blades, unreadable number plates, missing door mirrors, missing bumpers, failed headlights, badly aligned headlights and that was just this morning, drives my wife mad :-) If I see under inflated tyres I try and make the driver aware. all these offences are normaly dealt with by a caution and a chance to rectify but with no traffic cops in my area they just get more and more common. I think there should be an online app that we can report to and it simply sends the owner a letter and a period to rectify.

And before you start I am not a grass just concerned for the safety of others

good job you are retired, as you obviously have no idea about the laws covering cars

[Vipers]

Downward said:

Taxis with defective lights.
No excuse really and surely licensing should make them carry out a spare set of bulbs ?

In the military if we went to the stores for a bulb, they would say “You need a lamp, bulbs are what you put in the garden”.

Some years ago when I stopped at the lights a police car pulled alongside and informed me my near side brake light wasn’t working, but there is a garage a mile further on, he said.

I drove to the garage pulled in and changed the lamp, in the days when a friendly chat did more than issuing tickets.

P.S. I nearly said “I changed the bulb”

[Bobupndown]

I was in Blackpool some years ago (what a town!) When 2 seperate people kindly informed me that I had 1 brake light not working. Got a bulb at my first opportunity and replaced it. Police there must be tight on such misdemeanours, in all my years driving no one else ever notified me after a failed bulb.

Rear wipers, idiots driving along with their back wiper on intermittently long after rain has stopped. Do they never look in their rear view mirror apart from putting makeup on?

Normally VW / Seat / Audi fanboy types who remove the entire rear wiper and motor, replaced with a rubber grommet. Actually removing a useful feature from their car, making visibility worse because "scene innit"

I service my wife's friends car every year for her. It gets completely neglected for the next 12 months then. It often arrives with just 10 psi in the tyres but the best was "could you have a look at my wipers, they're a bit noisy?" Yep they're noisy because the tip of the blades are hanging off, and actually missing in places allowing the metal to carve nice arcs in your windscreen Some people just dismiss mechanical issues due to ignorance. They have zero idea of what a complex machine a car is and the need to maybe look after it from time to time. It is for these people that buses and trains were invented.

[Vipers]

Bobupndown said:

They have zero idea of what a complex machine a car is and the need to maybe look after it from time to time. It is for these people that buses and trains were invented.

I asked my daughter if she ever checked the oil, said no, when I asked why, she said "Isn't that checked when it goes in for a service".

[Super Sonic]

Saudade said:

I vote to put him and his wife in charge.

It's not him, it's his wife gets driven mad. He's just posting on her behalf.

[Unreal]

300bhp/ton said:

cce427 said:

I see this was discussed here some time ago but even more common today. As a retired mechanic I see so many vehicles EVERY DAY that are not fit for the road due to under inflated tyres, no brake lights, missing rear wiper blades, unreadable number plates, missing door mirrors, missing bumpers, failed headlights, badly aligned headlights and that was just this morning, drives my wife mad :-) If I see under inflated tyres I try and make the driver aware. all these offences are normaly dealt with by a caution and a chance to rectify but with no traffic cops in my area they just get more and more common. I think there should be an online app that we can report to and it simply sends the owner a letter and a period to rectify.

And before you start I am not a grass just concerned for the safety of others

Wow, you must live in a really rough area to see so many vehicles EVERY DAY.

Is a missing rear wiper blade really not fit the road ffs Glad there isn't an app if people are going to try and cause innocent people greif with guff like that.

Or live in a scrapyard. I don 't see it either. It's just one of the increasingly common new member trolling posts on here.

[Limpet]

cce427 said:

I think there should be an online app that we can report to and it simply sends the owner a letter and a period to rectify.

So, if the app takes the reporting user's word for it and issues a rectification notice automatically to a complete stranger with no evidence whatsoever that there's even a problem, you'll simply end up with thousands of entirely baseless rectification notices getting issued as revenge for road rage, bad parking or some other annoyance on the road.

The alternative is to have the police verify and check the cars based off the reports made on the app. At a time when they don't have the resources to investigate burglary or theft.

It's unworkable.

[SteveR1979]

Vipers said:

What annoys me is those with a rear wiper, which unless I am wrong, includes a wash as well, drive around with the rear window obliterated with dirt.

Oh and you mentioned headlights, some years ago I was in stop/start traffic, car behind had full beam on, I got out and said would you mind dipping your headlights they are blinding, driver said they were dipped…….

And those with one actually stuck on full beam.

Edited by Vipers on Thursday 19th January 11:54

You're wrong

My 996 has wipe but no wash

[Thats What She Said]

Super Sonic said:

Saudade said:

I vote to put him and his wife in charge.

It's not him, it's his wife gets driven mad. He's just posting on her behalf.

Yeah, but she's probably only driven mad, because mr dashcam letter writer keeps banging on about every car he sees when taking her to the shops. Some folk just need to get a hobby.

[LivLL]

300bhp/ton said:

cce427 said:

When I used to take cars for an MOT if something is fitted to a vehicle it has to work, like a spare tyre, if it is missing it is fine, if you have one and it is bald its a fail. Rear wipers are the same unless the law has changed.

Take as in transport or actually conduct MoT's?

Knowing the law & regs may help you a lot as you appear to be hugely mistaken in your beliefs.

True, spares (spacesaver or full size) are not tested ----- unless fitted to the car. Roll into an MOT test with a spacesaver fitted and it'll fail.

[Griffith4ever]

Jordie Barretts sock said:

OP, why don't you spend more time minding your own business instead of everyone else's?

Nobody has put you, or your wife, in charge of road policing.

Perhaps spend less time being a SJW and get a hobby?

It's another wind up post...

1st post from new user, ridiculous points, aiming to start arguments.... There is one pretty much every day at the moment. It's a wind up.

P.s. look at the thread icon..... ;-)

Edited by Griffith4ever on Wednesday 25th January 13:48

[300bhp/ton]

LivLL said:

300bhp/ton said:

cce427 said:

When I used to take cars for an MOT if something is fitted to a vehicle it has to work, like a spare tyre, if it is missing it is fine, if you have one and it is bald its a fail. Rear wipers are the same unless the law has changed.

Take as in transport or actually conduct MoT's?

Knowing the law & regs may help you a lot as you appear to be hugely mistaken in your beliefs.

True, spares (spacesaver or full size) are not tested ----- unless fitted to the car. Roll into an MOT test with a spacesaver fitted and it'll fail.

Umm not so sure on that tbh..... However when fitted to the car, clearly it is no longer the "spare wheel". However, I'm not sure they could fail it if it was the correct approved space saver and in good condition. It would still have to have no tread or some other issue.

[BertBert]

Well the OP has gone now anyway. Perhaps to read about the law, the MoT test and the Highway Code

[Deranged Rover]

Vipers said:

In the military if we went to the stores for a bulb, they would say “You need a lamp, bulbs are what you put in the garden”.

I hope you corrected them. A lamp is a device for giving a warning signal, or for illuminating stuff. The bulb is the thing in the lamp that generates said illumination.

[LivLL]

300bhp/ton said:

Umm not so sure on that tbh..... However when fitted to the car, clearly it is no longer the "spare wheel". However, I'm not sure they could fail it if it was the correct approved space saver and in good condition. It would still have to have no tread or some other issue.

You can’t have different size on same axle or it will fail. Guess you could put 2 space savers on though.

[sixor8]

Deranged Rover said:

Vipers said:

In the military if we went to the stores for a bulb, they would say “You need a lamp, bulbs are what you put in the garden”.

I hope you corrected them. A lamp is a device for giving a warning signal, or for illuminating stuff. The bulb is the thing in the lamp that generates said illumination.

To be honest, it's a filament, isn't it?

[Super Sonic]

Thats What She Said said:

Yeah, but she's probably only driven mad, because mr dashcam letter writer keeps banging on about every car he sees when taking her to the shops. Some folk just need to get a hobby.

Lol I can imagine. "Look dear, another bloody dirty back window, why doesn't he use his rww" "FFS what you telling me for? isn't there some forum you can whinge on?"
Also, Username Checks Out!

[gt40steve]

BertBert said:

Well the OP has gone now anyway. Perhaps to read about the law, the MoT test and the Highway Code

What ! Read the relevant official documents? The ones that are actually correct, that will never catch on.